Dead Internet Theory is totally believable. I remember back in 2006-7 or so, being slightly curious about putting up a food review site because I was really an

Dead Internet Theory is totally believable. I remember back in 2006-7 or so, being slightly curious about putting up a food review site because I was really angry at my local X food establishment. I found places were you could buy complete restaurant database ready to be scripted onto the web for maybe 90 a pop. The data was actually pretty good, but I was shocked by the huge community around flipping these dbs into internet spam. For the very high majority these were hungry business types who could barely open a code editor without asking for help. I only expect the problem has gotten exponentially worse since then now that ai generated content has improved in quality.