Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian says 'so much of the internet is dead'—and the rise of bots and 'quasi

In the last four years, the “ dead internet theory ” emerged as a conspiracy claiming the online world was being taken over by bots and automatically generated content run by an algorithm that would eventually thwart human activity online and control the global population.

According to Alexis Ohanian, investor and Reddit co-founder, there’s some truth to the idea, and a new era of social media will emerge because of it.

“You all prove the point that so much of the internet is now just dead—this whole dead internet theory, right, whether it’s botted, whether it’s quasi-AI, LinkedIn slop,” Ohanian said speaking to the hosts of the TBPN podcast on Monday. “Having proof of life, like live viewers and live content is really f–king valuable to hold attention.”

Last month, OpenAI founder