Dead Internet Theory (Premium E308) Sample

QAA Podcast

Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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🗓️ 12 October 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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A few years ago “Dead Internet Theory” was just some creepypasta. But thanks to the power of Artificial Intelligence, our most dystopian nightmares become more plausible by the day. The theory reached public awareness after it was published on the small webforum Agora Road’s Macintosh Café in January of 2021. Pseudonymous author “IlluminatiPirate” posted the theory, which he claimed had developed earlier on the 4chan board /x/ and Wizardchan. Jake, Julian, and Travis discuss the history of the dead internet theory, the new short form AI video platform Vibes, and the continued push by tech giants to make humans superfluous. This includes the rise of AI actors as prophesied in the 2002 film Simone. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: www.patreon.com/qaa Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (instagram.com/theyylivve / sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (pedrocorrea.com) qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

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0:00.0	Prompt. Create an episode of the QAA podcast. Topic, the dead internet theory and AI actors. Use the host's Jake, Julian, and Travis. Travis covers the history of dead internet theory. Jake covers the entertainment industry implications. Limit Julian to three death threats or less. Include nostalgia for the old internet.
0:24.3	The episode length is approximately one hour and 20 minutes.
0:26.9	Generating your episode, Thinking.
0:29.0	Thinking. Thinking. Keep me, Ah, Oh
0:38.3	Kyi-Nay If you're hearing this, well done.
1:03.4	You found a way to connect to the internet.
1:05.6	Welcome to the QAA podcast, Premium Episode 308, Dead Internet Theory.
1:11.7	As always, we are your host, Jake Rakitansky, Julian Field, and Travis View.
1:16.6	Artificial intelligence is devoid of intelligence because it is devoid of artifice.
1:22.3	True artifice is the artifice of the body in the throes of passion, the artifice of the sign in seduction,
1:28.9	the artifice of ambivalence in gesture, the artifice of ellipsis in language, the artifice of
1:35.2	the mask before the face, the artifice of the pithy remark that completely alters meaning.
1:42.2	So-called intelligent machines deploy artifice only in the feeblest sense of the word,
1:47.0	breaking linguistic, sexual, or cognitive acts down into their simplest elements and digitizing them
1:53.0	so that they can be re-synthesized according to models.
1:56.0	They can generate all the possibilities of a program or of a potential object. But Artifice is in no way concerned with what generates, merely with what alters reality.
2:06.6	Artifice is the power of illusion.
2:09.6	These machines have the artlessness of pure calculation, and the games they offer are based solely on commutations and combinations.
2:16.6	In this sense, they may be said to be
2:19.2	virtuous as well as virtual. They can never succumb to their own object. They are immune even to
2:25.7	the seduction of their own knowledge. Their virtue resides in their transparency, their
2:31.0	functionality, their absence of passion and artifice.
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