>>150290>Destiny finds out there are far rightist bot accounts that countersignal him>doesn't recognize that centrist, rightist, and leftist bot accounts had been propping him up beforehand>tries to tie this into him being banned for threats of violence because Elon Musk, who tries to be as online as he can, "found" his tweet>blames these things for his decline in popularity>instead of him being a cuckold who lost his wife to a younger man from the same nation as her and culture moving right in generalThere are definitely botnets, but these have existed since the 2000s, even earlier if you consider third worlders being hired to make fake accounts. It's only recently that they've become "sophisticated". What kicked off the idea of Dead Internet Theory wasn't just interactions with botnets, but absence of interaction on sites with allegedly thousands to millions of users. As the internet has grown in size, the amount of third worlders making content and spaces for themselves has become the norm. You could go online and never interact with an Indonesian, despite them having the fourth highest population in the world. Take 8chan as an example. Once Qboomers moved there, the site's activity was never again reflected in the experience of its userbase.