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by crooked-v 1709 days ago
This post takes an initially plausible premise (e.g. "much of the internet is manipulated by big corporations") and uses it to springboard into batshit conspiracy theory territory (e.g. "many well-known celebrities actually don't exist and are computer-generated").

Combine that with the repeated insistence on people not existing on the Internet and it really gives me the feeling that the writer is trying to apply a Capgras delusion[1] to the entire Internet.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capgras_delusion

1 comments

It reads like oldschool creepy-pasta from 4chan. The point isn't that it's true (it's not) the point is that it takes something that you've felt (online comments that can't possibly be made by a sane human being) and builds a whole cosmology around it to explain why it happens in the most convoluted and disturbing way possible.