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Dead Internet Theory: Many online identities are neither fully manual nor fully autonomous: people schedule, script, generate, supervise, and intervene in automated activity.
Dead Internet Theory: Automated accounts can answer, mention, like, or trigger other automated accounts, creating visible conversation that may contain far less human attention than the activity count suggests.
Dead Internet Theory: People often change languages across communities and situations, so an observer who searches only in English can mistake a language shift for a decline in human participation.