The Internet Isn't For Humans Anymore | The Deep
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🗓️ 4 September 2025
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The Deep with Erika Ahern is sponsored by Taylor Frigon Capital Management, serving clients at every stage of wealth: from first-time investors to high-net-worth families and organizations seeking full-service wealth guidance. Taylor Frigon provides institutional asset management solutions tailored to the needs of individuals, families and small businesses: https://cvote.it/taylorfrigon
Has the internet started to look fake to you? From slime videos with robotic voiceovers to AI night vision bunnies on a trampoline, our streams have been taken over by clickbait and brain rot. In this episode, Erika examines "Dead Internet Theory;" discovering origins, prospective endings, and the robots running our feeds. Is there a way out? Watch The Deep to find out!
00:00 -- Is the Internet Getting Worse?
03:55 -- Taylor Frigon Capital Management
05:22 -- What is Dead Internet Theory?
07:55 -- the Age of the Algorithm
11:13 -- the Consequences of a Dead Internet
13:45 -- Who is Responsible? Follow the Money.
16:32 -- How Will it End?
18:04 -- Alive Internet Theory
20:30 -- How to Foster an Alive Internet
21:13 -- Conclusion
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight, the Information Super Highway and one of its main thoroughfares, an online network called Internet. |
| 0:07.0 | And what about this Internet thing? Do you know anything about that? |
| 0:10.0 | Sure. What the hell is that exactly? |
| 0:12.0 | The variety on the Internet is one of its most incredible aspects, and there are literally hundreds, if not thousands, |
| 0:19.0 | of neat things you can do on it the internet gave us a whole |
| 0:21.9 | world of exciting new possibilities so I guess this is a story of how it changed our lives |
| 0:27.6 | maybe it will yours too is it just me or is the internet getting worse? |
| 0:40.3 | Fifteen years ago you went on Facebook to stay in touch with high school buddies, but now they've all disappeared from your feed. |
| 0:47.3 | You loved YouTube for its amazing, creative, and free content, but now it feeds you AI bunnies on trampolines and fake Bishop |
| 0:56.0 | Robert Barron exercising toilets. When you sprinkle salt with prayer and faith, yes, even into your |
| 1:02.0 | toilet, you are not performing a superstition. You are declaring, I will not allow decay to rain |
| 1:07.5 | in my home. I will not allow impurity to dominate. You used Google search to break out of the carefully controlled diet of network television. |
| 1:15.6 | No longer beholden to ABC, NBC, PBS, or CNN, we could verify reporting, see the bigger picture, and alternative explanations of human events. |
| 1:26.6 | We could find the latest information on everything and anything. |
| 1:31.3 | Today, it feels like we're right back in the era of big media. |
| 1:36.3 | You have to scroll through an AI summary and 16 sponsored ads |
| 1:40.3 | before you get to anything remotely authentic or authoritative. |
| 1:43.3 | It's like it's all scripted. |
| 1:46.6 | The internet is getting worse. |
| 1:49.1 | And according to some people, when we go online today, we're basically entering a virtual |
| 1:55.1 | dawn of the dead. |
| 1:56.8 | Welcome to Dead Internet Theory. |
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