File: more bot strangeness.png (633 KB, 1200x878) 633 KB Dead Internet Theory Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)10:46:22 No.27255405▶>>27255423 >>27255424 >>27255493 >>27255554 >>27255636 >>27256018 Previous thread: >>27247782 → Last thread got overrun with mostly nonsense and off-topic shit as soon as we got near the bump limit. Pic related; possible a bot or a someone deliberately disrupting, stealing my post from a different thread, earlier today, to drive the thread off-topic. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)10:47:50 No.27255412▶ AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA >When AAAA haha >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)10:49:26 No.27255423▶>>27255436 >>27255751 >>27255405 (OP) Oh no, you poisoned the OP image with nexpo shit, now this thread is bound to attract 'nexpo incident' vague posters and shills >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)10:50:04 No.27255424▶ >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)10:50:42 No.27255427▶ File: dead internet theory.png (425 KB, 2495x1120) 425 KB And if you're just arriving, pic related is the one which kickstarted these threads. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)10:52:11 No.27255436▶ >>27255423 So we'll do what we've been doing and ignore them. People can do what they want, we're not going anywhere and this discussion will continue. The disruptive actors and bots are part of the entire point these threads exist, so it's going to happen regardless. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)10:54:22 No.27255453▶ >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)10:56:25 No.27255467▶ >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:00:06 No.27255483▶>>27255494 One anon started up a text doc to compile information, for those of you who would like to do some reading up. http://meetingwords.com/IVlnVpwRfx And an excerpt: The Problem: Outline the basics of what appears to be happening. There is a large-scale, deliberate effort to manpulate culture and discourse online and in wider culture by utilising a system of bots and paid employees whose job it is to produce content and repsond to content online in order to further the agenda of those they are emplyed by. Already weve seen this in foreign nations influencing elections by manipulating advertising algorithms on social media in order to push specific candidates. As I see it is due to a "positive feedback loop" I Blame facebook and twitter. The internet is a fast way to get info, and info is what moves the mind, and the thing is, the mind likes recognition. When the "likes" were introduced without negative feedback they created a copy-feedback subconcious, they made it so only "positive" opinions be propagated (also accepted), and in it's way negative opinions to be obsolete. Now everyone is too cowardly to have an opinion so they copy others they like, they are more likely to follow trends and say what others said, you can also see it with the paranoia of always wanting to listen to experts. The fast feedback system of the net created a human obsession to be in with trends, getting away from it makes it so you always feel like you are missing out, to play it safe in a trend is more easy as you can copy what already is accepted. In this way, the internet and social media, which was supposed to democratise media by allowing users to create whatever content they wanted, has instead been hijacked by a powerful few. >continued.. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:01:10 No.27255493▶>>27255532 >>27255962 >>27255405 (OP) So if the internet is mostly bots now, what the hell can we do about it? It seems like we're fucked either way because we're just little people in the way of an all powerful amorphous mass >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:01:19 No.27255494▶>>27255522 Continued from >>27255483 Creation of original content is how the internet used to work. Anonymous people were willing to express their opinions and try radical or experimental things. More truly original content, uninfluenced by bots or paid influencers, was created due to anonymity as protection against negative feedback. On the old internet, you could start anew every time you posted something. Now add bots to this. Make it so an opinion be repeated more and more, they are faster than us, so the positive feedback makes is so we copy the bots, and anonymity can't do anything against it because we can't influence the bot like we would a human, this is an easy weapon to manipulate people, so anyone with an agenda can use a bot, is designed in a way compared to how clickbaits are made,most won't read the content, this creates tv-like propaganda where they aren't influenced by the user and that puts bots at a great advantage over any other opinion because it wont change, and we are copying that. I believe google is one of those that makes bots, after all they work like a search engine, where they get the most accepted content first, Is the same as doing an ad. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:04:25 No.27255522▶>>27255532 >>27255494 You don't need to copy paste the text, if Anyone wants to read they can follow the link, no need to spam the thread >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:05:58 No.27255532▶ >>27255493 There is likely nothing we can do about it. I don't think any of us have any delusions about battling and defeating whoever is the cause of it all. My intention, and it seems the intention of the other anons who have been in these threads, is to better understand what's happening, document possible instances of this stuff happening, and be more aware of how severe this "infection" (so to speak) of the internet and the communities of it. >>27255522 It's literally not hurting or "spamming" anything. They can go read the rest if they want, I'm making it easier for a quick introduction/explanation since we don't have a proper first post made up yet. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:08:21 No.27255554▶>>27255565 >>27255405 (OP) The last thread was great until those bots appeared. Looks like if a thread is not reactionary and it gives another point of view or a good idea, it is troublesome. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:10:08 No.27255565▶ >>27255554 It's troublesome alright, you larping faggot t.bot >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:10:12 No.27255566▶>>27255572 >>27255573 By the way, it's worth pointing out that the people/bots who suddenly showed up in the last thread as soon as it got near the bump limit, to talk randomly about the nobody shit and post vaguely quasi-related bullshit, are now gone. Disappeared the moment the thread hit the bump limit, and seem to have vanished entirely now. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:11:30 No.27255572▶ >>27255566 but i'm still here >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:11:33 No.27255573▶>>27255595 >>27255566 They'll be back and in greater numbers >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:15:00 No.27255595▶ File: ill show u schizo.gif (963 KB, 500x213) 963 KB >>27255573 Doesn't bother me. They'll follow the same basic routine every time, it's to be expected. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:18:09 No.27255622▶>>27255638 >>27255641 The internet was murdered by our governments. https://files.catbox.moe/rkpw3z.png They bought or blackmailed all of the content creators, DDOSed any indie sites out of service, took over the schools that used to host wacky student sites, and made it a national security policy that it's illegal "white supremacy" to disagree with this policy. Qatar was running analytics to see who was talking to who so they would know which middlemen to cut out of the internet so that leaders and powerful people would never hear from anyone who disagreed with the Qataris. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:19:48 No.27255636▶>>27255658 >>27255665 >>27255405 (OP) Funny, looking the catalog there is a nobody thread that started after the shitposting in the last /DIT/ thread. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:19:49 No.27255638▶>>27255876 >>27255622 Come on dude. Just post the pic here, and actually elaborate on the stuff you're talking about. There's no reason any of us would just automatically know what you're talking about. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:20:08 No.27255641▶ >>27255622 >wacky student sites >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:21:33 No.27255653▶>>27255675 >>27255698 >>27255755 >>27255906 File: TargetedConspiracyTheorists.png (258 KB, 1101x1136) 258 KB i mentioned last thread how basic bots work by looking for keyword triggers. earlier this year in april, a bunch of stories hit the web about how bill gates was being targeted by conspiracy theorists. look at the headlines in pic related - i went back and grabbed screencaps. when you read all of these articles, they are clearly not written by a human being. it literally seems as though some sort of program has the ability to weave out various versions of a news story with similar headlines full of trigger words, then just switch up the wording in the article a bit to make each one seem unique. this could also explain why the media/elites feel the need to make up new words like social distancing - new phrase so the bots can hone in on something specific and start derailing and leading the discussion. maybe this is where the bizarre phrase "easter worshippers" came from that obama and hildawg used after that shooting a few years ago. it's all about keywords and triggers. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:21:53 No.27255658▶>>27255671 >>27255702 >>27255636 Kinda figures at this point, right? Were you in the last thread when all that bullshit hit suddenly? I had kept telling myself that stuff was likely to happen, but watching it in real time like that was kind of unsettling, to be totally honest. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:22:54 No.27255665▶>>27255685 >>27255636 huh, 73 replies already. interdasting >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:24:00 No.27255671▶ >>27255658 >hit suddenly >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:24:16 No.27255675▶>>27255685 >>27255653 Thanks for putting these together. I'm actually gonna go find some of those threads to take a look through now. Were you also the anon who mentioned that Benjamin guy? >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:25:38 No.27255685▶>>27255739 >>27255675 *articles, not threads. I'm a dumbass and also still have not slept. >>27255665 Holy shit. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:27:41 No.27255698▶ >>27255653 it's also interesting that the new nobody doesn't use the akephalos trips. huh >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:27:45 No.27255702▶>>27255732 >>27255658 Jut watch it, but replies were fluid until one moment of 30 minutes of nothing, after that bots appeared to hit bump limit. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:27:56 No.27255705▶>>27255732 Reposting this: School is letting out now in the US. Schoolkids are literally coming on /x/ right now to look for spoopy stories and troll you. American ones. Just be careful. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:31:09 No.27255732▶ >>27255702 It made me feel kind of like a jerk, because I honestly used to automatically dismiss people on /x/ who claimed that sort of thing happened. This past day has been some kind of trip, that's for sure. >>27255705 They are as easy to ignore as the others. Glad you pointed out the time though, god damn I can't believe it's that late in the afternoon already. I've been in this thread and the last one for something like 16-17 hours straight-ish now, I think. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:32:03 No.27255739▶>>27255749 >>27255788 >>27255685 it's up to 83 now. it's almost as if somebody is training bots. we might be on to something here lads. maybe we ca ask some other board to help with this? >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:33:29 No.27255749▶>>27255790 >>27255835 >>27255739 >as if somebody is training bots That's kind of what keeps coming to mind for me. Someone before mentioned the instance of those two chat bots communicating with each other until they got shut down, and I started wondering if in those threads. we're looking at something similar. It no longer seems like a farfetched idea to me. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:33:34 No.27255751▶>>27255764 >>27255814 >>27255860 >>27255423 who is nexpo >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:34:01 No.27255755▶ >>27255653 Best post in bread. Thanks anon. I see many such headlines. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:34:46 No.27255764▶ >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:37:57 No.27255788▶ >>27255739 if /x/ made friends with /g/ we'd be unstoppable! other theories i have regarding this: >most popular youtube celebs don't exist >this is why you can watch an entire 30 minute video from an NPC and learn nothing >spotify stream numbers are generated by bots (nobody actually likes mumble rap) >discord servers are mined in order to feed the bots example conversations and interactions >the news has been controlled by AI since at least 2009 >the bots are getting unbelievably good at creating new social narratives >people are attracted to negativity, so the headlines and narratives just get worse and worse >black lives matter was the perfect narrative created to divide us and keep us arguing >4chan produces content tailored to what you are researching or interested in >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:38:14 No.27255790▶>>27255849 >>27255749 ok then we agree there's something here we could use some help with. i'll put together something and ask some other boards to help. we need to stop this now. /pol/ is always looking for something to do so... >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:43:16 No.27255835▶>>27255863 File: nobodywtf.png (122 KB, 586x664) 122 KB >>27255749 there is definite bot activity in that thread lol. who the fuck talks like this? it really is the uncanny valley of threads. it seems like it's a regular chan thread. a guy posts a pepe image, gets a few responses.... but it doesn't make any fucking sense. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:43:17 No.27255836▶>>27255840 >>27255827 Why do you ask who he is then? Just a fancy of yours? Do you like his voice that much >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:45:05 No.27255849▶ >>27255790 My only advice is to temper your expectations. We may be self to garner enough information to make a determination for ourselves, but I don't think there's anything we can do to get rid of them, mainly just observe. But if I'm wrong, I am happy to listen and help. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:46:56 No.27255860▶>>27255868 >>27255891 >>27255840 >>27255827 >>27255751 Here we have it folks. I have doubts this is an A. G I could just be a lonely boi >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:47:35 No.27255863▶ >>27255835 >it really is the uncanny valley of threads. Yep. I used to peer into those things and leave shaking my head, but now it seems so obvious what's going on there, I don't know how I didn't put it together sooner. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:48:33 No.27255876▶>>27255923 >>27255943 >>27255638 I think that there are vagueposting bots who have taken to imitating OP to discredit him >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:53:58 No.27255923▶ >>27255876 Maybe the potential bots we discussed before which are basically made to appear "schizo"? >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)11:57:16 No.27255956▶ >>27255943 That's kind of literally one of the things this thread is about. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)12:03:26 No.27256003▶>>27256008 >>27255982 I notice that bots always seem to focus on the same, stale, lust provoking themes to grab your attention >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)12:15:55 No.27256092▶ >>27256051 I think you're so insecure that you get suicidal from seeing things that aren't funny >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)12:18:58 No.27256112▶>>27256129 >>27256544 >>27256096 >"oh no we're not talking about the spoopy lost media ARG i'm going to go kill myself now, bye" >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)12:19:53 No.27256119▶>>27256136 >>27256544 Had a bit of a moment just a few minutes ago when my router seemingly just completely died, in the middle of trying to post in this thread. Turns out, somehow the outlet it was plugged into died for no apparent reason. That's the only outlet that had any issue. For a second I was waiting on the men in black or some shit to show up and kill me. Maybe next time. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)12:21:29 No.27256129▶>>27256544 >>27256112 The thing he's claiming never happened. Nobody said anything like that in the last thread unless he posted it so he could make this post in this thread. Better off just ignoring them, these threads are going to attract people like that by nature of the topic. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)13:11:06 No.27256540▶>>27256550 >>27256591 Jesus, I come back after a few hours and the last thread is bombed to death with bots/shills. We're clearly on to something lads. Anyone know how far back the Nobody General goes in the archive? I feel like we should do some investigating for the types of posts that have been made their previously and compare them to what we have now and see if there's any sort of pattern that might resemble or suggest machine learning. Also, any anons that crosspost to other boards know if there's any other recurrent threads like NBG? Maybe replace the schizoism of NB with autism of another board's style but I feel like we might find something there too. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)13:11:31 No.27256544▶ >>27256136 >>27256129 >>27256119 >>27256112 WTF is happening? nexpo shills showed up and killed the entire discussion we were having. also i just watched the owen benjamin vid about quantum journalism. according to him, the key is to look out for obviously fake and usually sexual names. i had no idea that the media pushed a "waynal sexton" as george floyd's 2nd grade teacher. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)13:11:52 No.27256550▶>>27256578 >>27256540 i posted in the original nobody threads just i did in the original nexpo incident ones. youll find the nobody lore being made up. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)13:15:45 No.27256578▶>>27256597 >>27256602 >>27256672 >>27256550 Are the nexpo incident threads bots training too? And I'm getting paranoid boys, I had a lot of (You)s in the last thread that were either completely unrelated to what I posted, or some facsimile word salad of what an imageboard poster would write. Whoever coined the "uncanny valley of the mind" term in the last thread is dead on, this shit is pretty spoopy senpai, ngl. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)13:15:48 No.27256579▶ Greentext threads are made by YouTube channels fo harvest content. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)13:17:29 No.27256591▶>>27256628 File: 1514962122839.png (130 KB, 1213x289) 130 KB >>27256540 the first mentions of the nobody on /x/ were in 2014. the entire thing started as a larp thread on godlikeproductions, pic related. a few anons started posting about it here, and the original discussions seemed legit (no bots). it didn't become a general until 2019. these are the first couple general threads. https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/22775747/ https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/22783648/ https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/22788440/ https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/22801618/ majority of the posts are total nonsense in these. it seems the nobody threads started organically, then somehow became the home for some bot network. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)13:17:51 No.27256597▶>>27256610 >>27256578 no, its literally a joke. like i honestly think its funny. the fact that jannies ban people for posting about it makes it even more hilarious because we can claim that nexpo paid them to do that. just read the original threads. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)13:18:37 No.27256602▶>>27256619 >>27256578 the nexpo thing seems more like simply faggots from a discord server >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)13:19:19 No.27256610▶>>27256686 >>27256597 If the jannies would have just let retards be retards it would have fizzled out, but the fact that they keep silencing it just makes people talk about it more lmao. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)13:20:17 No.27256619▶>>27256652 >>27256602 it isnt, if you use the archive youll find where it all started. lol do you guys think every meme now is started from a discord server? >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)13:20:59 No.27256628▶>>27256686 >>27256591 I wonder then if the bots started a feedback loop with the LARPers and literal Schizos in the nobody threads and its snowballed to the point beyond intelligibility, with the few non-bots in there too mentally ill to tell the difference between their own brand of autism and machine generated babble. Thanks for the info anon, I'm gonna be going through these and see if I can find any connections/recurrent themes. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)13:23:57 No.27256650▶ >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)13:23:59 No.27256652▶>>27256686 >>27256619 I have literally no evidence to back this up so I understand if you choose not to believe me. I started the first nexpo incident thread as a joke to see what a herd mentality hateful hivemind would do. People starting making up some dumb shit and improving off what the last guy said. It got super bug and jannies handled it poorly which made it bigger. There is no discord server as far as I’m aware, but everyone hates nexpo and it’s a pretty funny meme. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)13:25:17 No.27256662▶ >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)13:26:38 No.27256672▶>>27256733 >>27256578 I think 'nexpo incident' posters are now a mix: a. A small coordinated group who have it out for him b. Anon posting for the meme c. Gullible anons who buy into the whole thing Threads that devolve into nexpo posting seem have a discernable pattern to them >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)13:27:59 No.27256686▶>>27256752 >>27256610 i think they banned it because they considered it trolling or they thought it would end up in actual harassment toward nexpo. sometimes they let the threads last until 100 replies and dont bother banning us. i think it actually would have ended up with anons making up the videos which would have been cool. we dont usually get an opportunity now to do fun larps like that. what i find the funniest is that anons will make debunks on it, as if it werent clearly not real from the start. >>27256628 its so popular because they self insert. ill admit i imaged myself being the nobody as the start, even when i consciously knew that we were all larping. either way the threads are hilarious to read through. >>27256652 no way did you make the original. post a link from the archive to prove you know which was the original at least. i was the first anon to respond i remember saying "fuck man that was fucked up dont expose others to it" or something lol. the original poster all knew it was a larp it was just hilarious. i made up half the lore about the shack and the forest. if it was you thanks for the laughs. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)13:28:13 No.27256689▶ File: texas-train-derailment123(...).jpg (177 KB, 1200x630) 177 KB I thought it would go without saying, but please anons, if you suspect someone to be a shill/bot, just ignore them. It's clear that their aim is to derail this thread and force us past the bump limit before any real discussion/discovery can get done. Force them to work for their (You)s, they're a bunch of retarded faggot 3rd worlders paid pennies on the dollar for their service if not literal machine learning AI, so don't give them anymore than they already have. Please stay on topic, we're clearly getting close to something if there's this many attempts at derailing >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)13:34:25 No.27256733▶ >>27256672 >A small coordinated group who have it out for him there was a troll or a few trolls who kept making threads about nexpo channel, this started the hate and the schizo meme where you accuse everyone of being nexpo. >Anon posting for the meme most of us. >Gullible anons who buy into the whole thing there was actually an anon who set up a discord server to research the nexpo incident. i made fun of him at the time but i think he was being serious and i feel kind of bad desu. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)13:36:28 No.27256751▶ Notice how the thread topic has shifted into something completely different. >> Anonymous 01/05/21(Tue)13:36:33 No.27256752▶ >>27256686 https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/26972977/#26972977 It was the first mention of the incident too. I’ll be honest I just expected people to call me a fag and move on lol. Also most of the footage was posted by me too lmao. And absolutely coincidentally he Just happened to have a video of him at a graveyard. I’ll be fucking honest when I found out I died laughing. The best part is anyone who calls it bullshit is just “Nexpo” or one of his shills. I’m just glad it brought this board some laughs. [Post a Reply] [Return] [Catalog] [Top] 98 / 9 / 26 / 1