Dead Internet Theory?

Post by ravenhappy » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 10:17 AM UTC

anenefan wrote: post #10

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Thank you for your response. I'm sorry, because now when I read my original submission I see that it is ambiguous. The "terrible idea" that causes my beloved family member grief is not the dead internet theory. I intentionally didn't share the scary idea that they've latched on to. My question about the dead internet theory is related to my (perhaps foolish) idea that sharing the truth of ambiguity re online content…

OK I'd gather you're dealing with someone I'd probably consider a woo-woo or zombie sheep depending on their affliction. (Woo-woo think the likes of flat earthers where if any two of them a couple hundred miles apart, had mobile phones, a spirit level and a tape measure would surely discover for themselves the concept to be in error, vs a zombie sheep more often simply followed a rabbit hole past any point provable f…

Berenstein

Post by anenefan » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 2:50 PM UTC

ravenhappy wrote: post #11

anenefan wrote: post #10

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OK I'd gather you're dealing with someone I'd probably consider a woo-woo or zombie sheep depending on their affliction. (Woo-woo think the likes of flat earthers where if any two of them a couple hundred miles apart, had mobile phones, a spirit level and a tape measure would surely discover for themselves the concept to be in error, vs a zombie sheep more often simply followed a rabbit hole past any point provable f…

Berenstein

Not what I was expecting ... people do misremember stuff - something most of us do just for the most part never ever realise as such, and when we do, we generally admit to ourselves we're not totally infallible.

Well if it were me, I'd avoid the internet altogether and I'd be hunting for old vhs tapes of the show [1] or find an old book from the series - if you're fortunate, your local public library doesn't renew all its books every 10 or 20 years.

[1] https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/chaz-kangas/berenstain... (near the bottom of page mentioning the tv version that pronounced it as 'stein' though the working title is 'stain')

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