Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says ‘so much of the internet is dead’—and the rise of bots and ‘quasi-AI, LinkedIn slop’ killed it

Alexis Ohanian sits in a white chair on stage and gestures with both hands as he speaks. (Credit: Dia Dipasupil—Getty Images)

In the past four years, the “dead internet theory” emerged as a conspiracy, claiming the online world was being taken over by bots and automatically generated content run by an algorithm that would eventually thwart human activity online and control the global population.

According to Alexis Ohanian, investor and Reddit cofounder, there’s some truth to the idea, and a new era of social media will emerge because of it.