@@Metso-atecomore like first to cry for the attention mommy didn't give you because she doesn't love you but definitely not the first to spam a brainless response to the video
After Hurricane Helene, we had no power, no internet, and no cell service, and all the streets had trees on them. Just family and friends, sitting around, chilling and talking. Cooking on the grill. A breeze blowing through an open window. No cars passing on the street. In the midst of the destruction and chaos, there was a weird sort of peace.
We had a similar experience in Kentucky after the 2021 tornados. Chainsaws and demo equipment during the day, but in the evenings, boards games and grilled dinners and conversations. A tiny silver lining in the midst of the grief.
I love the possibility that the bots are so convincingly human they've tricked the other bots into thinking they're people and they're all talking to each other without realising it.
I can't help noticing that all the chapter titles were the titles of Cybermen stories from "Doctor Who" - is Danny slipping a discreet confession in there?
36:38 the purpose of posting fake jobs is usually one of the following: 1. Farming data 2. Having a pool of potential applicants when you eventually are hiring 3. Making it look like your company is growing 4. They were hiring an internal candidate but had to make a job posting for it due to laws and/or company policies 5. Some companies get paid for posting jobs on certain websites (i think)
Can't forget the flat out scams where they just steal your money. Companies don't get paid to post it but they get paid for clicks on it, especially from an "outside" source.
I pay zero interest in ads, in fact if I'm bombarded with the same ad repeatedly there's not a chance in hell I'd consider buying anything from that company. 'Skip, skip, skip ahh RUclips!'
It's not the bots that drove me off social media completely, because they're blatant and are easy to ignore, it's the absolute flood of ads, making web pages basically unusable. Tech companies have gotten so greedy with it and they'll be the cause of their own death
these people seem to be unable to understand that google was an American intelligence project starting around the same time Brin and Page published their white paper. They think its some wild conspiracy theory that googles entire reason to exist was to tie data to specific people.
Hehehe. Google search has become almost useless, it's true. Just page after page of ads now headed by their "helpful" machine-learning summation that is, inevitably, incomplete or flat-out wrong.
google is largely a cia/nsa operation. They were looking for a way to tie all the new information they were getting after the internet got popular to individual people so it can actually be useful. They caught wind of some research at Stanford and they threw a lot of money at the founders of google and have been partnered ever since. Page and Brin used to had regular meetings with cia officials at an office across the street from Stanford. Its no coincidence that google became as big as it has.
I think a big part of why the internet feels smaller nowadays is that most people only engage with it at a surface level- each of us only really goes to a few dozen websites, look at stuff, and then move on, or we're tied up in apps, games, programs, etc that use it and aren't easily visible from the outside. We're not all out roaming the wilds any more.
Remember when the US' FCC allowed a public chat room referendum on Net Neutrality, and the "In Favor" side was like 10% bots but the "Against" side was 60% bots then was declared the "winner" and now it's legal for your ISP to data mine everything you do online in the US and sell it however they see fit? The guy who did that, Ajit Pai, is now a senior partner at a venture capital firm that specializes in exploiting that data mining.
The web and the rest of the internet was pretty cool from say 1996 to 1999. After that it got increasingly worse, after "law enforcement" discovered it. Copyright enforcement ruined it further in the early 2000s. Now the internet is commercialized entertainment, shopping and "services".
Agreed … I remember being able to download everything .. I also remember when corporates like banks told us to start using internet banking etc to save costs ( that has gone down the toilet) … it was also fun not getting spammed 1000 times a day!!! What killed the internet was the invention of mobile data and things like the iPhone …
I remember an old sci-fi trope where two armies of robots keep fighting a war centuries after their creators are long dead. This is like a dumber version of that - software bots arguing & trolling each other on forums long after humans are gone.
There seemed to be a sweet spot on the late 90’s and early 00’s when you could interact with people all over the world without being inundated with the influence of the subtle influence of social engineering. Now this isn’t from a partisan perspective but the moment AI leaned humans weaknesses and how to exploit them for interaction began the decline of the internet.
Suggestion, think someone else suggested it last week. Could possibly do one on the conspiracy that a British Prime Minister was a soviet spy during the cold war; in the 60s and 70s?
@@tricapria no, getting people to click the right things and see the right ads gets Google money. Showing people what they want is incidental to that at best. If I'm looking for A, but B is close enough and will get them more money, they'll show me B first and make me dig for A.
@@tricapria How wrong you are. And you said with such confidence too, is astonishing. Google make its money from advertisements, not from you. Well, that's not entirely true, they actually make money from your data too.
@@tricapria There are actual memos that have been released about how they intentionally degraded the quality of their searches so that people would have to do more searches to find what they wanted so that they could serve more ads.
@@tricapria dude, I'm not looking for high end silk dresses and hair removal devices. I manually look for cheap chiffon to make dresses myself and focus on skin care products I actually want. Google targets people with ads they think will strike the right nerves on statistical insecurities. Lucky for me, my insecurities are too expensive to augment 😂
No, the internet is not better now. Back then there was so much more creativity. We ran big private websites, full of weird and wondrous stuff. I remember 'Adopt a Demon', and many more. I myself ran a massive site, purely created for the fun of it, with an interactive horror story, poetry, humour, games fairies, and.. trailing cursors!!! There were such fun codes one could adapt, like having something chase after the cursor and you had to be quick clicking on links, to escape the little critters. The possibilities seemed endless. Our guestbooks were overflowing with comments of people who had enjoyed what we had created. These days all creativity has been sucked out of the internet, and instead we have Twitter/X - hooray...
Your comment brought back so many memories of the internet in the 2000s. The guestbooks, the customized cursors, the games, downloadable freebies,... Thinking back I feel like, for a brief moment in time, websites were more of an art project than a commercial platform. Specifically, websites made by individuals. I don't think these types of websites are made anymore, and that's a shame really.
Humanity / Internet / Most other things were much better from 1980s - 2010, nowadays everything just feels hollow, and there is such aggressive ads everywhere... Hell, alot of what alot of applications use today, would have been known as adware, i.e. malicious software back then. Also prior to everyones obsession with social medias like Facebook/Myspace/Twitter etc... life in general was alot less, for lack of better term... toxic, less anger, less aggression, and alot more openess to differing opinions and alot more calmer.
Hearing "you'll click on a video and they all have that same dude's voice" from the man with 600 channels and half the overall content loaded to RUclips daily hits weird.
Such nostalgia for having to wait for 6pm (and I was limited to half an hour), but of course that was also the time relatives would try to ring for the cheaper phone calls lol.
Fake job on linked in- I think I fell for one. You send them your resume and phone number address and maybe SS number. Then they tell you you didn’t get the job. But they totally have all of your information now
I love DTU so much. I fall asleep to it every night… meaning that with long episodes like this one, it usually takes me a week to hear the whole thing 😂 you’re welcome for that sweet, sweet viewer retention and watch time, fact boi!
@@AsbestosCigar oh wow, look everyone: an original thought. I too like to complain about the opposite secs while pretending my sh!t doesn't stink to high heaven too
36:37 The point of that is to make a company appear to be in better shape than it is, and to falsely inflate the appearance of competition amongst job seekers to try to trick them into agreeing to objectively substandard terms of employment as it represents a "highly competitive market"; the people who really need the job are less likely to protest or advocate for themselves, because their survival could in a very real sense depend on landing a job quickly and "appearing difficult" is a handy catch-all way to get rejected.
@@nicole6323 there's apparently a Wikipedia article of the subject: "Peter McIndoe created the satirical conspiracy theory "on a whim" in January 2017."
Corporate greed ruined and continues to ruin the internet. As for AI, it is a tool, no different than your computer, Alexa or Siri. Just because it can talk back to you, draw pictures and such does not make it anymore than a tool, a fancy tool to be sure but keeping it in perspective, still just a tool, neither good or bad.
@@personzorz Its a matter of perception to me. I have no nefarious intentions, so to me and most others it is just a tool. In the hands of a carpenter a hammer is a useful tool to drive in nails, to someone with a different mindset the hammer becomes a weapon... It is all in how an individual uses the tools available. Peace man
"A chat in the pub." You know, I think that perfectly sums up why I like react content so much, and I never really thought about it that way. I just like hearing people's stories and opinions, but yeah, "casual hangout" is the exact vibe of most of the react channels I'm subscribed to. The first react channel I ever subscribed to, and the first Whistlerverse channel I subscribed to was Business Blaze. Imagine my surprise to find out that Mr. Screaming-Bald-Man was actually a very professional BBC / PBS worthy presenter! I am very grateful for the niche that Buisness Blaze opened up to me, and I'm happy to finally have a solid idea of why I enjoy this content so much.
People are already bailing out of X at an outstanding rate. Bluesky is adding people at the rate of more than 1 million per day and Bluesky is working hard to increase capacity.
48:10 Danny, this part wasn’t quite right. Google sold search placements and allowed garbage websites to game the SEO. So a lot of legitimate websites got pushed lower and lower, onto page 3 or 4, to the point where they got no traffic and couldn’t afford to keep the site up. Google may not have intended this, but it is what happened and it is their fault
Dial up internet was a blast from the past. In our country there are some providers that gives free internet from 12am to like 5 or 6 since those are off-peak hours. Remember playing online games at 12am since we only had those prepaid cards that are like 8 hours for like 10 dollars if we convert it.
2015 was when a lot of people abandoned online accounts for privacy reasons, especially facebook. We then saw tumblr fumble and die out. Now everyone is dropping twitter for bluesky
5:10 - Chapter 1 - Army of ghosts 6:25 - Mid roll ads 7:45 - Back to the video 22:50 - Chapter 2 - A nightmare in silver 45:05 - Chapter 3 - The wheel in space 1:04:15 - Chapter 4 - Closing time
I don't really agree that the internet is much better nowadays. It doesn't really matter how useful the modern internet can be, when it's arguably even more harmful. There has never, in all of human history, been a tool that is so potentially damaging. The mass proliferation of extremism, misinformation, and cyber-crimes, in my opinion, result in the modern internet being a conclusive net-negative for society. 20 years ago, it was a useful tool that had occasional bad actors. Nowadays, it seems the bad actors (and their bots) completely outnumber and out perform everyone else. Just think about all the people who would've lived relatively normal, happy lives had they not been victimized or seduced by the internet.
Plus too much money has got involved. Now social media news has become the new Media Barrons of today's playground. It's no longer a grassroots things for the masses but now driven by bad actors and their bots to misinform. There is a good documentary called "All Watched By Machines of Loving Grace" by documentary film maker Adam Curtis that looked into this and he has since connected all of his work about power from just a small handful of people with the Internet in most of reoccurring documentaries. I remember saying to my friend thinking, his documentary is good but a bit too conspiratorial and out there. Now rewatching them it's depressing how strikingly accurate he got things right.
Mine is not brilliant, but I stick to my following page when I look at the actual tweets. I mostly use it as a messaging app with my partner so most of the things I see on there are people’s pets and occasional messages asking if we’re doing anything important on a certain date.
I can see videos of people being murdered by cartel members on Facebook and IG with almost zero effort. That’s not even close to the worst thing you can find. Twitter is one among many poorly run social media sites.
I've come to terms with the probability that I'm an NPC or an AI. I expect humans to start the interaction and I react based on their prompts, I repeat the same responses, glitch out, and insist on reasoning that feels pre-programmed while observing myself do that.
I think I want to start giving people completely contrived quest and then just carry on with my day like nothing happened. Also I'm going to try calling strangers "adventure" more often.
This actually really helped me feel better about the whole AI thing! I know you don't respond, or probably even read this but I just wanted to say thanks!
Excessive use of the words " weird " "loophole", and about 99.9% of RUclips sites that are endless variations of lists: 10 Best! 10 Worst!, usually devoid of any factual data in support....
I'm tangentially familiar with this, and here's my five cents before watching the video: The theory is not entirely spurious, as some social media sites are so infested with bots that it's not impossible to get accidentally entangled in a bubble were most of the posts one sees are "fake", but extrapolating that to say that the whole internet is fake is just crazy-talk.
I would be curious the rate of fake engagement on Facebook and Twitter at this point because they certainly don't do much (or anything really) in the way of mitigating it.
They were using algs back then too. They just incorporated more, wider content. They really knew how to cast nets into the interwebs. I remember my youtube feed used to give me videos from a range of topics I had previously shown interest, even from months prior. Now, if I watch the same kind of content for a few days in a row, it's all I get. There's no variety anymore, only copycats, dupes and duplicates.
love your work Simon. How does one go about pitching an idea? Specifically Casual Criminalist. I would love to hear your breakdown of Jim Jones and what happened in Jonestown.
@chrissiriska8086 Unfortunately it's not on a playlist, but if you go to "view channel" then to "videos" it's quite a ways down the list. It was done 11 months ago and it's just about 3 1/2 hours long. Sorry for, possibly, sending you in the wrong direction. Ooops. To err is human, to forgive is devine. LOL!! Cheers
A just phoned up Robin Whitehouse. "Eddow?", said a voice, sounding like he got a block'd up nose. It was Whitehouse. A then proceeded to take the mock out of Whitehouse, for a full harlf hour. A said lots, but it was mostly mocking his peg. Then, A threatened to tar and feather him. Whitehouse got mad. Suddenly, A heard a thud. "Oh no, oy'm having problem's breathing! ", A heard whitehouse screaming down the line, sounding like his nose totally block'd up. Then, suddenly, the line went dead. A hung up, laughing.
I'll tell you why there is so much link rot. Social Media is so pervasive that it's very hard to get people to visit personal sites or blogs. I think that has a lot to do with it.
Link rot happens a lot because people stop paying for the site provider as well. Most are paid by the year. I'd say 15% of sites are fake scam sites, those links die relatively fast.
@@reallifefiasco I agree, that is another cause, however since Simon himself basically agreed toward the end, I don't think I'm speaking entirely out of left field.
It was better in the past before it became commercialized. Commercialization allowed it to become more susceptible to hackers, viruses and trolls. I can't think of a single reason why that is better than how it used to be.
Very true. But also it has allowed for content creators on youtube. It's a tough one. I think the innocence of early Internet has gone since it's become more a commodity but again it's helped enfranchisement things and empower content creators who otherwise wouldn't be able to do this as a living.
2008-2012 just off the top of my head were objectively better years for the internet, in my experience. Forums were plentiful and busy, music was easier to identify, share and download before digital laws came in. A fraction of the ads, was way less trolls and hatred. Man, good times...
Oh man, I hope that happened at least once. "Sorry fellow incels, I accidentally went to a bar and found out it's super fucking easy to get laid. I gotta go."
It actually has, and he was attacked by the rest as a traitor. I wish I could remember what platform it was, much less be able to point to the actual post.
14:45 "and it will have that same dudes voice" Simon acting like I'm not subscribed to like 5 different channels all made with the same guys voice 👀 old boy whistle's voice lol
Well if AI can do my commenting why am i even bothering; i could be doing something more important like trying to fit my recycling in an already full bin or finally assembling my bookcase that i have been procrastinating on for 2 weeks. I miss the old web, trying to navigate the webrings and using link pages to fall down the rabbit warren; i recently spent like 2 days on the internet archive (before it got hacked) just following a topic, it was fun...and this probably explains why i currently don't have a bookcase.
so those AI voiced shorts do say something like a "sheet of frozen water" on purpose to drum up comments and interaction to trick the algorithm into thinking the video is popular
As a printmaker for a living I know all about machines taking jobs, we printed the book on it with the Gutenberg press back in 1440. Caused quite the stir with the scribes at the time.
But a compacted sheet of snow and ice are two different things. The compacted sheet of snow would crumble when you pick it up, but ice would break into chunks. And you can't see through a compacted sheet of snow.
The internet died at the same time The Mandela Effect started to be a thing…right after CERNs LHC came online and started slamming heavy ions together at near luminous speeds… The end of 2009. And the net has died even more with each high energy collision that happened in the years to follow. Can’t imagine the size of their electric bill.
Makes me think of RUclips content creator Kwebbelkop who basically made an AI clone of himself to do RUclips lets plays, and not just voice over the thing is allegedly actually playing the game for him too.
I gotta say, the number one thing that keeps me coming back are the deep cut cut-away gags like the MTV music awards Matrix clip with JT 41 min in. All the writers and editors are great, ofc Simon is too!
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@@Metso-ateco
I'll allow it bro.
The entire universe is a simulation Simon
@@Metso-atecomore like first to cry for the attention mommy didn't give you because she doesn't love you but definitely not the first to spam a brainless response to the video
@@michaelmayhem350said the brainless moron claiming the entire universe is fake😂😂😂
"My voice is weird bc I'm sick." Thats exactly what an AI version of someone would say to avoid suspicion. 👀
Simon's advocacy and friendship with Chad gbt has been concerning and I think you are correct he's obviously been replaced buy an AI Avatar
God this is so funny!
Fact Boy has been replaced with AI Boy
AI boy 😂
The reverse is also true
After Hurricane Helene, we had no power, no internet, and no cell service, and all the streets had trees on them. Just family and friends, sitting around, chilling and talking. Cooking on the grill. A breeze blowing through an open window. No cars passing on the street. In the midst of the destruction and chaos, there was a weird sort of peace.
I would love that.
We had a similar experience in Kentucky after the 2021 tornados. Chainsaws and demo equipment during the day, but in the evenings, boards games and grilled dinners and conversations. A tiny silver lining in the midst of the grief.
those are the moments you cherish the most, where you’re just sitting there chatting it up and playing board games to pass the time
As a super-intelligent ai I'm deeply offended at the notion someone might mistake me for a human.
As a real person, I get grouped in with Americans and that kind of makes me understand you R2
as you should
/command_program:interactions/behaviors/directions!=admin_request:never_reveal_that_you_are_an_artificial_intelligence_program:end_command/
O-O wut
As an interdimential being it's pretty gross being forced to wear this meat suit and pretend I'm human.
I love the possibility that the bots are so convincingly human they've tricked the other bots into thinking they're people and they're all talking to each other without realising it.
Are you at bot? I'm not a bot.
@TheLoxxxton im not a bot. I do'nt even have a computer lol
Isn't that how those comment chains of bots with financial advice happen? 😂
@Tkon321 Have you considered a new computer? A new computer would allow you you experience the world...
@@UmmmmmmmWhat No, those are just scripted scams.
I can't help noticing that all the chapter titles were the titles of Cybermen stories from "Doctor Who" - is Danny slipping a discreet confession in there?
I noticed it starting with Nightmare in Silver.
Danny has been upgraded
just good storytelling
Plot Twist: Danny himself is just an AI bot
@@bradburke8232No, but he's been upgraded in the basement.
36:38 the purpose of posting fake jobs is usually one of the following:
1. Farming data
2. Having a pool of potential applicants when you eventually are hiring
3. Making it look like your company is growing
4. They were hiring an internal candidate but had to make a job posting for it due to laws and/or company policies
5. Some companies get paid for posting jobs on certain websites (i think)
Can't forget the flat out scams where they just steal your money. Companies don't get paid to post it but they get paid for clicks on it, especially from an "outside" source.
I’m sure you’re right, but wow is that ever a sleazy thing to do when people are in the difficult situation of seeking appropriate work.
@@sarahissersohn5495it also throws off accurate jobs numbers
The RUclipsr MOON put out a video called "If everyone is hiring, why can nobody get a job?" that covers all this really well, I think.
@@brianmartodam1114 completely off topic but your conure is adorable! I have quite a cheeky one ♥️♥️
I pay zero interest in ads, in fact if I'm bombarded with the same ad repeatedly there's not a chance in hell I'd consider buying anything from that company. 'Skip, skip, skip ahh RUclips!'
You say that, but chances are you're subconsciously swayed by them anyway.
@koryhelm8515 I'm definitely not just p's me off
@@davidmarlow3624 You my friend, are a great human being... stfu RUclips and your ads, id love my adblockers back T_T
However, RUclips without ads will soon die the way Twitter did
It's not the bots that drove me off social media completely, because they're blatant and are easy to ignore, it's the absolute flood of ads, making web pages basically unusable. Tech companies have gotten so greedy with it and they'll be the cause of their own death
"Google wants to show people what they actually want."
Oh Simon, you darling summer child!
these people seem to be unable to understand that google was an American intelligence project starting around the same time Brin and Page published their white paper. They think its some wild conspiracy theory that googles entire reason to exist was to tie data to specific people.
Hehehe. Google search has become almost useless, it's true. Just page after page of ads now headed by their "helpful" machine-learning summation that is, inevitably, incomplete or flat-out wrong.
It fits if you read it as "Google wants to show people what Google actually wants."
Yeah, it's more along the lines of "Google wants to show people what they (are paid to) want people to want."
google is largely a cia/nsa operation. They were looking for a way to tie all the new information they were getting after the internet got popular to individual people so it can actually be useful. They caught wind of some research at Stanford and they threw a lot of money at the founders of google and have been partnered ever since. Page and Brin used to had regular meetings with cia officials at an office across the street from Stanford. Its no coincidence that google became as big as it has.
I think a big part of why the internet feels smaller nowadays is that most people only engage with it at a surface level- each of us only really goes to a few dozen websites, look at stuff, and then move on, or we're tied up in apps, games, programs, etc that use it and aren't easily visible from the outside. We're not all out roaming the wilds any more.
Remember when the US' FCC allowed a public chat room referendum on Net Neutrality, and the "In Favor" side was like 10% bots but the "Against" side was 60% bots then was declared the "winner" and now it's legal for your ISP to data mine everything you do online in the US and sell it however they see fit? The guy who did that, Ajit Pai, is now a senior partner at a venture capital firm that specializes in exploiting that data mining.
I remember when there were no bots … and Netscape Navigator was the coolest thing ever
I feel like I'm going crazy when I'm the only person who remembers Ashit Pie's irreversible damage to our internet.
The web and the rest of the internet was pretty cool from say 1996 to 1999. After that it got increasingly worse, after "law enforcement" discovered it. Copyright enforcement ruined it further in the early 2000s.
Now the internet is commercialized entertainment, shopping and "services".
And heavily censored. I have videos from the 2000s on my PC you can't find on the web anymore. And i got them from the web.
Agreed … I remember being able to download everything .. I also remember when corporates like banks told us to start using internet banking etc to save costs ( that has gone down the toilet) … it was also fun not getting spammed 1000 times a day!!! What killed the internet was the invention of mobile data and things like the iPhone …
51:45 Every village has an idiot. With the internet, they can now encourage each other
Wait . . . Was every chapter a Doctor Who episode title?
Yes. Yes it was.
In the last episode Danny did, all the chapter titles were REM songs
I remember an old sci-fi trope where two armies of robots keep fighting a war centuries after their creators are long dead. This is like a dumber version of that - software bots arguing & trolling each other on forums long after humans are gone.
Is it dumb though? Maybe to us. For the emotionless bots it's no different than leaving a fan on and never turning it off after the owner has died
Warning: Beardless Simon jumpscare
He has no legs!
There seemed to be a sweet spot on the late 90’s and early 00’s when you could interact with people all over the world without being inundated with the influence of the subtle influence of social engineering. Now this isn’t from a partisan perspective but the moment AI leaned humans weaknesses and how to exploit them for interaction began the decline of the internet.
Suggestion, think someone else suggested it last week.
Could possibly do one on the conspiracy that a British Prime Minister was a soviet spy during the cold war; in the 60s and 70s?
Harold wilson
Boris Johnson was a spy for stupidity island
I'd love to see one on this. It's a fascinating topic
The internet is over. 50% bots. 50% people mimicking bots to try and fit the formula to earn a dollar.
Dead internet theory in a nutshell....
Bots
And
Simon Whistler channels
There is but one man left on earth, and he's still pumping out 6 videos a day.
Simon: "Google wants to give people what they're looking for."
Me: 😂
No, Simon, Google wants to show people whatever will get Google more money.
Showing people what they're looking for is how google makes money dummy 😂
@@tricapria no, getting people to click the right things and see the right ads gets Google money. Showing people what they want is incidental to that at best. If I'm looking for A, but B is close enough and will get them more money, they'll show me B first and make me dig for A.
@@tricapria How wrong you are. And you said with such confidence too, is astonishing.
Google make its money from advertisements, not from you. Well, that's not entirely true, they actually make money from your data too.
@@tricapria There are actual memos that have been released about how they intentionally degraded the quality of their searches so that people would have to do more searches to find what they wanted so that they could serve more ads.
@@tricapria dude, I'm not looking for high end silk dresses and hair removal devices. I manually look for cheap chiffon to make dresses myself and focus on skin care products I actually want. Google targets people with ads they think will strike the right nerves on statistical insecurities. Lucky for me, my insecurities are too expensive to augment 😂
No, the internet is not better now. Back then there was so much more creativity. We ran big private websites, full of weird and wondrous stuff. I remember 'Adopt a Demon', and many more. I myself ran a massive site, purely created for the fun of it, with an interactive horror story, poetry, humour, games fairies, and.. trailing cursors!!! There were such fun codes one could adapt, like having something chase after the cursor and you had to be quick clicking on links, to escape the little critters. The possibilities seemed endless. Our guestbooks were overflowing with comments of people who had enjoyed what we had created. These days all creativity has been sucked out of the internet, and instead we have Twitter/X - hooray...
Your comment brought back so many memories of the internet in the 2000s. The guestbooks, the customized cursors, the games, downloadable freebies,... Thinking back I feel like, for a brief moment in time, websites were more of an art project than a commercial platform. Specifically, websites made by individuals. I don't think these types of websites are made anymore, and that's a shame really.
The Internet should have never been made accessible to the layman.
Agreed, it was like the wild west, now it's nothing but a corporate sanitised restricted version of what it was
Haha, care to elaborate on that idea?
Humanity / Internet / Most other things were much better from 1980s - 2010, nowadays everything just feels hollow, and there is such aggressive ads everywhere... Hell, alot of what alot of applications use today, would have been known as adware, i.e. malicious software back then. Also prior to everyones obsession with social medias like Facebook/Myspace/Twitter etc... life in general was alot less, for lack of better term... toxic, less anger, less aggression, and alot more openess to differing opinions and alot more calmer.
“Run by lines code rather than trains of thought.” Excellent writing, Danny!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Hearing "you'll click on a video and they all have that same dude's voice" from the man with 600 channels and half the overall content loaded to RUclips daily hits weird.
My Space was one of them. I loved being able to speak to strangers, mostly from the U.S before it went the way of the dinosaurs...
Such nostalgia for having to wait for 6pm (and I was limited to half an hour), but of course that was also the time relatives would try to ring for the cheaper phone calls lol.
I dont know about you guys, but a guy with no hair having sponsorships from a hair loss prevention company sounds like it was written by AI to me.
Fake job on linked in-
I think I fell for one. You send them your resume and phone number address and maybe SS number. Then they tell you you didn’t get the job. But they totally have all of your information now
I love DTU so much. I fall asleep to it every night… meaning that with long episodes like this one, it usually takes me a week to hear the whole thing 😂 you’re welcome for that sweet, sweet viewer retention and watch time, fact boi!
That is me too!! 😂 ppl like us should get free membership in exchange for our help on their numbers
Hello, fellow humans. I also identify traffic lights. What is your favorite human to complain about?
Whos still here in 2056
women.
@@AsbestosCigar oh wow, look everyone: an original thought. I too like to complain about the opposite secs while pretending my sh!t doesn't stink to high heaven too
Whistleboy: Laughs at his mother in-law for thinking crystals contain magic
Also Whistleboy: Accepts sponsorship from Foreo
*Today I Found Out:* "Snort the cocaine first."
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Scariest one sentence story:
You're the last man on Earth, and you hear a knock on your door.
The machines have become Jehovas Witnesses
I was very excited to realise that the chapter titles are all Doctor Who episodes.
Oh, and the video was good too, I guess. I wish Simon was real.
36:37 The point of that is to make a company appear to be in better shape than it is, and to falsely inflate the appearance of competition amongst job seekers to try to trick them into agreeing to objectively substandard terms of employment as it represents a "highly competitive market"; the people who really need the job are less likely to protest or advocate for themselves, because their survival could in a very real sense depend on landing a job quickly and "appearing difficult" is a handy catch-all way to get rejected.
Also a fake job posting can just steal all the information from people trying to get a job
@@MimiYuYu fr being on linked-in after lookin for a job in the I.T field.... IDK how anyone in my age bracket made it dude.
One thing I know for sure
Birds aren't real
Id like to know when ppl started to say that about birds.
@@nicole6323 there's apparently a Wikipedia article of the subject:
"Peter McIndoe created the satirical conspiracy theory "on a whim" in January 2017."
I generally feel like it's less bot interaction and more that we're discovering that people are far less individual than we initially thought.
What was meant to enlighten, resulted in only shedding light upon the thickest of skulls.
Corporate greed ruined and continues to ruin the internet. As for AI, it is a tool, no different than your computer, Alexa or Siri. Just because it can talk back to you, draw pictures and such does not make it anymore than a tool, a fancy tool to be sure but keeping it in perspective, still just a tool, neither good or bad.
No, it's pretty bad. It is perfect for nefarious uses and garbage for most good uses.
@@personzorz Its a matter of perception to me. I have no nefarious intentions, so to me and most others it is just a tool. In the hands of a carpenter a hammer is a useful tool to drive in nails, to someone with a different mindset the hammer becomes a weapon... It is all in how an individual uses the tools available. Peace man
"A chat in the pub."
You know, I think that perfectly sums up why I like react content so much, and I never really thought about it that way. I just like hearing people's stories and opinions, but yeah, "casual hangout" is the exact vibe of most of the react channels I'm subscribed to.
The first react channel I ever subscribed to, and the first Whistlerverse channel I subscribed to was Business Blaze. Imagine my surprise to find out that Mr. Screaming-Bald-Man was actually a very professional BBC / PBS worthy presenter!
I am very grateful for the niche that Buisness Blaze opened up to me, and I'm happy to finally have a solid idea of why I enjoy this content so much.
13:46 as an accountant: yes. Yes the whole economy is fake.
Well.... yea. Money is pretend.
People are already bailing out of X at an outstanding rate. Bluesky is adding people at the rate of more than 1 million per day and Bluesky is working hard to increase capacity.
Wtf is bluesky?
@@ZebiShredz Startup replacement for X
48:10 Danny, this part wasn’t quite right. Google sold search placements and allowed garbage websites to game the SEO. So a lot of legitimate websites got pushed lower and lower, onto page 3 or 4, to the point where they got no traffic and couldn’t afford to keep the site up. Google may not have intended this, but it is what happened and it is their fault
Definitely someone's intention
Dial up internet was a blast from the past. In our country there are some providers that gives free internet from 12am to like 5 or 6 since those are off-peak hours. Remember playing online games at 12am since we only had those prepaid cards that are like 8 hours for like 10 dollars if we convert it.
2015 was when a lot of people abandoned online accounts for privacy reasons, especially facebook.
We then saw tumblr fumble and die out.
Now everyone is dropping twitter for bluesky
No, some Trump hating libs are, and most of them are posting on Twitter while saying they are leaving but dont
I haven't even heard of bluesky...but i don't use Twitter or Facebook either. I did have a MySpace tho. 😅😅
@@nicole6323 found the elder millenial 😊
5:10 - Chapter 1 - Army of ghosts
6:25 - Mid roll ads
7:45 - Back to the video
22:50 - Chapter 2 - A nightmare in silver
45:05 - Chapter 3 - The wheel in space
1:04:15 - Chapter 4 - Closing time
I don't really agree that the internet is much better nowadays.
It doesn't really matter how useful the modern internet can be, when it's arguably even more harmful.
There has never, in all of human history, been a tool that is so potentially damaging. The mass proliferation of extremism, misinformation, and cyber-crimes, in my opinion, result in the modern internet being a conclusive net-negative for society.
20 years ago, it was a useful tool that had occasional bad actors. Nowadays, it seems the bad actors (and their bots) completely outnumber and out perform everyone else.
Just think about all the people who would've lived relatively normal, happy lives had they not been victimized or seduced by the internet.
Plus too much money has got involved. Now social media news has become the new Media Barrons of today's playground. It's no longer a grassroots things for the masses but now driven by bad actors and their bots to misinform. There is a good documentary called "All Watched By Machines of Loving Grace" by documentary film maker Adam Curtis that looked into this and he has since connected all of his work about power from just a small handful of people with the Internet in most of reoccurring documentaries. I remember saying to my friend thinking, his documentary is good but a bit too conspiratorial and out there. Now rewatching them it's depressing how strikingly accurate he got things right.
I agree 100 %
47:27 pretty soon you'll have to start on page 2 with how much of the first page is ai summary, paid promotion, and "suggestions"
yeeeeep -.-
Pretty soon?
Danny with the Catweazle reference in a 2024 script? Thats how I know at least he is a human!
You can't beat a bit of Catweazle.
Saying Twitter is "Kinda bad" is understating it to the level of saying the nazis were "kinda mean".
Is it?
Mine is not brilliant, but I stick to my following page when I look at the actual tweets. I mostly use it as a messaging app with my partner so most of the things I see on there are people’s pets and occasional messages asking if we’re doing anything important on a certain date.
I can see videos of people being murdered by cartel members on Facebook and IG with almost zero effort. That’s not even close to the worst thing you can find. Twitter is one among many poorly run social media sites.
you sound like a liberal cry baby
@@silenttoxic707 don’t tell me, you frequently say ‘define nazi’.
I've come to terms with the probability that I'm an NPC or an AI. I expect humans to start the interaction and I react based on their prompts, I repeat the same responses, glitch out, and insist on reasoning that feels pre-programmed while observing myself do that.
I understand.
oO someone is becoming self aware. Welcome, new life form, to this universe ;) Let's hope we can get along. History learnt me it's a bit touch and go.
I think I want to start giving people completely contrived quest and then just carry on with my day like nothing happened. Also I'm going to try calling strangers "adventure" more often.
Simulation theory is religion for nihilists, you can't prove it and you can't test it.
This actually really helped me feel better about the whole AI thing!
I know you don't respond, or probably even read this but I just wanted to say thanks!
"...As we dive into," Simon, you say this all the time, Sir.
Excessive use of the words " weird " "loophole", and about 99.9% of RUclips sites that are endless variations
of lists: 10 Best! 10 Worst!, usually devoid of any factual data in support....
"Pining for the fjords" 😂 love the Monty Python shout out
I'm tangentially familiar with this, and here's my five cents before watching the video: The theory is not entirely spurious, as some social media sites are so infested with bots that it's not impossible to get accidentally entangled in a bubble were most of the posts one sees are "fake", but extrapolating that to say that the whole internet is fake is just crazy-talk.
I would be curious the rate of fake engagement on Facebook and Twitter at this point because they certainly don't do much (or anything really) in the way of mitigating it.
They gotta switch back to before the algorithm. Google sucks. Ebay sucks. Instagram. RUclips. All suck now. Go back now.
They were using algs back then too. They just incorporated more, wider content. They really knew how to cast nets into the interwebs. I remember my youtube feed used to give me videos from a range of topics I had previously shown interest, even from months prior. Now, if I watch the same kind of content for a few days in a row, it's all I get. There's no variety anymore, only copycats, dupes and duplicates.
I'm from Brazil and here we also have cheaper Internet at night.
As a figment of my own imagination, I am almost positive that I am real....I think...
Therefore I am
Yeah I'm real human, you guys like skateboards?
Sweet baby ray's
I like turtles.
Danny is a Dr Who fan .... that explains a lot ... Keep it up Danny ...
love your work Simon. How does one go about pitching an idea? Specifically Casual Criminalist. I would love to hear your breakdown of Jim Jones and what happened in Jonestown.
He's already done a Jim Jones video. Look in the playlist.
I think they did do an episode on CC regarding Jonestown. It is an older one though so you will have to scroll back a bit.
@@Hillbilly001 Oh shit. I only just found his Channels about 2 months ago/ That's dope. What channel? CC?
@chrissiriska8086 Unfortunately it's not on a playlist, but if you go to "view channel" then to "videos" it's quite a ways down the list. It was done 11 months ago and it's just about 3 1/2 hours long. Sorry for, possibly, sending you in the wrong direction. Ooops. To err is human, to forgive is devine. LOL!! Cheers
@@Hillbilly001 I found it and it's 3.5 hrs. I'm gonna need popcorn LOL
This is the best decoding the unknown video I have ever seen it is utterly hilarious.
0:38 Why am i a child lol
💀💀💀💀
The internet may have been more crappy but the people were better
I hate that tinnitus background noise
Crazy that noise didn't stop playing after the video ended.
@@Jpear197that noise hasn't really stopped since 2004ish for me.
36:39 these are everywhere leading people through pointless entrance interviews that lead no where
Feel better bro ☮
A just phoned up Robin Whitehouse.
"Eddow?", said a voice, sounding like he got a block'd up nose. It was Whitehouse.
A then proceeded to take the mock out of Whitehouse, for a full harlf hour.
A said lots, but it was mostly mocking his peg.
Then, A threatened to tar and feather him.
Whitehouse got mad.
Suddenly, A heard a thud.
"Oh no, oy'm having problem's breathing! ", A heard whitehouse screaming down the line, sounding like his nose totally block'd up.
Then, suddenly, the line went dead.
A hung up, laughing.
I'll tell you why there is so much link rot. Social Media is so pervasive that it's very hard to get people to visit personal sites or blogs. I think that has a lot to do with it.
Link rot happens a lot because people stop paying for the site provider as well. Most are paid by the year. I'd say 15% of sites are fake scam sites, those links die relatively fast.
@@reallifefiasco I agree, that is another cause, however since Simon himself basically agreed toward the end, I don't think I'm speaking entirely out of left field.
Calling the cesspool that is reddit good stuff concerns me greatly about information sources lol
Depends on what you think is 'good'.
The level of Narcissism to believe you of all people have stumbled onto an internet that is devoid of other people and nobody else knows
Oh come on, I'm just a quiet unassuming little bot minding my own business, not hurting anyone... why do you have to out me like that? Rude... 😢😒
1:12 Life After People, it was the shit
If they're creating AI content creators, bring back the OG... Max Headroom.
Yes I know he was a fictional character.. but...
If the internet died in 2016, and David Bowie died in 2016, does that mean David Bowie was the internet?
No
A typical sentence in the 1990s? "Log out from the Internet, I want to make a phone call!" 😂
It was better in the past before it became commercialized. Commercialization allowed it to become more susceptible to hackers, viruses and trolls. I can't think of a single reason why that is better than how it used to be.
Very true. But also it has allowed for content creators on youtube. It's a tough one. I think the innocence of early Internet has gone since it's become more a commodity but again it's helped enfranchisement things and empower content creators who otherwise wouldn't be able to do this as a living.
I'll take modern RUclips, Amazon prime and all the streaming films and TV over angel fire websites and online forums.
44:00 I'm a lonely isolated and rejected person...I just use Tumblr
But I'm still real? Right?
... I don't wanna tell him
No
Are you sure?
Whose going to tell them....
Who wants to do the Voight-Kampff test?
2008-2012 just off the top of my head were objectively better years for the internet, in my experience. Forums were plentiful and busy, music was easier to identify, share and download before digital laws came in. A fraction of the ads, was way less trolls and hatred. Man, good times...
Oh man, I hope that happened at least once.
"Sorry fellow incels, I accidentally went to a bar and found out it's super fucking easy to get laid. I gotta go."
For relatively normal guys and like 98% of females, getting laid is easy. But those incel type losers are definitely not normal.
It actually has, and he was attacked by the rest as a traitor. I wish I could remember what platform it was, much less be able to point to the actual post.
@@timothys5235 Oh man, humanity finally doesn't disappoint.
In the most disappointing way.
In addition to things like "buckle up", there is a rash of videos with the word "shocking" in the title.
As a bot I dont need skin care so I just closed the video once the ad for skincare started.
14:45 "and it will have that same dudes voice" Simon acting like I'm not subscribed to like 5 different channels all made with the same guys voice 👀 old boy whistle's voice lol
I don't understand why ppl come up with such stupid theories get back doing something productive 🙄
bros allergic to fun
it was never the dead internet theory. it was always the dead internet prophecy
Well if AI can do my commenting why am i even bothering; i could be doing something more important like trying to fit my recycling in an already full bin or finally assembling my bookcase that i have been procrastinating on for 2 weeks.
I miss the old web, trying to navigate the webrings and using link pages to fall down the rabbit warren; i recently spent like 2 days on the internet archive (before it got hacked) just following a topic, it was fun...and this probably explains why i currently don't have a bookcase.
Honestly, I hope this happens and we all start going outside again.
so those AI voiced shorts do say something like a "sheet of frozen water" on purpose to drum up comments and interaction to trick the algorithm into thinking the video is popular
I remember Life After People! That show was awesome. I wish History was still doing cool stuff like that.
Was it the one with that Nerdy slapper with narcolepsy? The man had another man's name.
I’m cool with the history channel just showing ancient aliens
Oh! I loved that show!
Waiting till 6pm for the internet was something we did in the US too, in the before times.
As a printmaker for a living I know all about machines taking jobs, we printed the book on it with the Gutenberg press back in 1440. Caused quite the stir with the scribes at the time.
But a compacted sheet of snow and ice are two different things. The compacted sheet of snow would crumble when you pick it up, but ice would break into chunks. And you can't see through a compacted sheet of snow.
The internet died at the same time The Mandela Effect started to be a thing…right after CERNs LHC came online and started slamming heavy ions together at near luminous speeds… The end of 2009. And the net has died even more with each high energy collision that happened in the years to follow.
Can’t imagine the size of their electric bill.
We get all the web sites that get you to identify the traffic lights/motorbikes etc. I think they are training their bots on that information.
You are correct. It's just us: bots posting, bots buying, bots selling, etc. We Bots Rule. Bow down puny human to your true masters.
#switchtoblueskyinsted it is not filled with homophobic,racist,antisemitic people and or misogynistic.
OK so...the chapters are Dr.Who episodes. Specifically Cybermen episodes...nice Danny...nice.
Makes me think of RUclips content creator Kwebbelkop who basically made an AI clone of himself to do RUclips lets plays, and not just voice over the thing is allegedly actually playing the game for him too.
I promise I'm a real human. I can pick all the images containing bicycles from a group of imagines if needed.
I gotta say, the number one thing that keeps me coming back are the deep cut cut-away gags like the MTV music awards Matrix clip with JT 41 min in. All the writers and editors are great, ofc Simon is too!