Dead Internet Theory Explained

"Why does the internet suck now?" "Dead internet theory" "Social media is driving people bananas" 1997-07 Total Internet Users with percentage of users 1. USA 2. Japan 3. Germany 4. United Kingdom 5. Canada 6. France 7. Netherlands 8. Australia 9. Sweden 10. South Korea 11. China 12. India 13. Finland 14. Norway 15. Spain 16. Switzerland 17. Austria 18. Belgium 19. Russia The first workable prototype of the internet came in the 1960s with the creation of ARPANET. WORLD 100,268,757 2018-12 Total Internet Users with percentage of users China USA Russia Japan Indonesia Nigeria Mexico Germany Philippines Vietnam United Kingdom Turkey Iran France South Korea Canada Italy Spain By 2018, over half of the global population gained access to the internet. WORLD 4,143,081,811

The meme shows a comparison of internet users by country in 1997 and 2018, with China and India becoming much more prominent in the later chart. The captions sarcastically suggest that the internet feels worse because social media brought huge numbers of new users online, riffing on the dead internet theory and the uploader’s joke about Indians coming online. EN: The meme shows a comparison of internet users by country in 1997 and 2018, with China and India becoming much more prominent in the later chart. The captions sarcastically suggest that the internet feels worse because social media brought huge numbers of new users online, riffing on the dead internet theory and the uploader’s joke about Indians coming online.

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