Joel Thomas

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1,385 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard yesterday

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With the AI.

It's it's like the AI itself is generating this stuff and putting it out there.

And people are interacting with it.

But even more importantly, other bots are interacting with it as well.

And it really comes from.

This guy called Illuminati Pirate.

And he was the first one to coin the term.

And he wrote an entire

I'd say article, but more like a thread on the dead internet theory.

And he called it that.

And he wrote it on an image board called Wizard Chan.

Now Wizard Chan is no longer in existence.

It's defunct now.

It's actually a part of something you talked about before when we did our first quarter qua episode.

It was a big part of Gamergate with the whole Zoe Quinn harassment scandal and

And it was in that pantheon of 4chan and 8 Chan and all that.

And he wrote this.

on there first, but now you can find it in a place called Agora Road, Macintosh's Cafe, and he talks about what it means

To have pretty much a defunct internet that we're working with.

Now he kind of starts out with how long that he's been a part of these communities.

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