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Dead Internet Theory: How MySpace became a working front door for independent musicians — a place to post songs, build a following, and get discovered — and what happened when the platform drifted, the records vanished, and the community scattered.
Dead Internet Theory: How Friendster's real-name 'circle of friends' became one of the first mass social networks, why its social role collapsed in the United States, and how a payments firm's gaming pivot kept the user base while discarding the community. Includes what the brand's 2026 relaunch retained and what it left behind.
Dead Internet Theory: How a Google 20-percent project became the first loved social network of Brazil and India, and what its 2014 closure — and the death of its archive three years later — meant in each country.
Dead Internet Theory: What made Bebo's original social graph a place rather than a platform, what each revival since has tried to recover, and why the 2026 return, closed on September 1, brought the brand back without the community.
Dead Internet Theory: How Friends Reunited built Britain's first mass social network around a single lookup, and why a reunion network has nothing left to sell once the reunion has happened.
Dead Internet Theory: How Fotolog's one-photo-a-day rule built a deliberate, repeat-visit community across Latin America and beyond, and why that culture lost to the unlimited feed.
Dead Internet Theory: An inactive profile can look artificial from the outside even when it belongs to a real person, because much of an account's activity is invisible to public observers.
Dead Internet Theory: Chronological and ranked feeds expose different slices of the same network: one privileges recency, while the other predicts relevance, and neither provides a complete or neutral view of everything happening on the platform.
Dead Internet Theory: Federated networks let people join smaller locally governed communities while still communicating across a wider network, distributing activity across many servers instead of concentrating it on one familiar platform.
Dead Internet Theory: A list of contacts can be exported, but the living relationship graph around those contacts—groups, permissions, memberships, mutual connections, and active conversations—often cannot simply be recreated elsewhere.