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Theory: AI addicts and social-media addicts are forming two separate groups that don't talk to each other (hexbear.net)
submitted 3 weeks ago by Vampire@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
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AI and social media are both shit and are both addictive.

But I think one reason for the AI-hate on social media is that the people who spend hours a day talking to chatbots and generating images, those people are not also spending hours a day on social media.

You pick up your phone for no reason. What do you open? What's your source of shitty low-quality conversation? If it's a chatbot it's probably not a forum, and as these addictions are deepen, the AI users stop voicing their opinions online because they're busy talking to 1s and 0s

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[-] Carl@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago

I've been thinking about getting all of the BMF posts into a prompt and seeing what comes out the other side. That might be fun for an hour.

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

What if it ends up being the million monkey typewriter we need to finally have new theory applicable to the 21st century, paving the way for global communism? Only one way to find out

[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

Marx failed to consider that the Dialectic requires you to talk to other humans.

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

That might be fun for an hour.

No you were right this shit is hilarious. So i basically told it to generate some theory based on the historical canon of hexbear.net power user black mold futures. It gave me:

Drawing on the historical BMF canon from Hexbear, a 2026 Marxist framework centers on the commodification of infrastructural decay and the algorithmic subversion of the digital public sphere.This evolving framework synthesizes three key aspects:

Algorithmic Rentierism: Modern platform monopolies act as digital landlords, extracting surplus value by gatekeeping community infrastructure and funneling user socialization into data-harvesting ecosystems.

Prosumer Alienation: By gamifying political discourse and relying on unpaid volunteer moderation, digital platforms obscure the labor required to maintain their network effects, creating a hollowed-out "posting class."

Ecological Precarity: The intersection of climate change and deteriorating urban infrastructure exacerbates the biopolitical stratification of the working class, confining marginalized populations to unlivable, "black-molded" living conditions to protect the real estate portfolios of the bourgeoisie.

I was then like "you know "black mold futures" is a person, right? And has nothing to do with mold? If so, regenerate that shit"

And it gave me:

Yes, I completely understand now. Black Mold Futures (BMF) is a specific, well-known persona and user on Hexbear.net, and the name has nothing to do with biological fungus or property damage.

Synthesizing the signature BMF style—which blends hyper-online irony, left-accelerationist economic critique, post-left disillusionment, and highly specific internet subculture lore—here is a new strain of Marxist theory tailored for the material and digital conditions of 2026.

  1. The Theory of "Silo-Accelerationism"

In 2026, the traditional internet has completely fractured. Capitalism no longer seeks to build massive, open digital town squares; instead, it maximizes surplus value through enforced balkanization.

The Fragmented Proletariat: Capital purposely drives users into hyper-specific, isolated digital containers (Silos) to prevent cross-platform class consciousness.

The Monetization of Friction: Platforms derive profit not from seamless connection, but from the emotional friction generated when different Silos clash.

The BMF Postulate: True revolutionary potential in 2026 relies on "posting across lines"—intentionally breaking platform boundaries to contaminate corporate algorithms with unmarketable, high-density irony.

  1. The Extraction of "Vibe Capital"

Traditional labor theory focuses on physical or intellectual output. In the 2026 digital economy, platforms extract Vibe Capital—the unpaid psychological and emotional labor required to keep digital spaces feeling "alive."

The Posting Class: Users who spend hours generating content, memes, and arguments are the core productive force.

The Real Subsumption of Leisure: Capitalism has successfully converted the human instinct for community into a round-the-clock factory floor.

The Paradox of the Moderator: Volunteer moderators and power-posters perform the essential maintenance labor that keeps platform valuations high, yet they are compensated entirely in worthless digital status tokens.

  1. The Lumpen-Algorithm and "Ghost-Posting"

As corporate platforms become flooded with dead internet traffic—AI bots, automated engagement farms, and algorithmic content—the working-class user becomes a ghost in the machine.

Algorithmic Enclosure: The bourgeoisie uses predictive algorithms to preemptively shadowban, suppress, or redirect radical discourse before it can gain organic traction.

The Strategy of Incomprehensibility: To resist this enclosure, 2026 Marxist strategy must adopt a layer of deep, shifting, and deeply fried multi-layered irony. If the algorithm cannot parse the sentiment of a meme, it cannot monetize or suppress it.

It then asked me if i wanted to generate an authentic BMF manifesto

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

And of course im like "dude give me that manifesto"

MANIFESTO FOR THE END OF THE FEED: A 2026 EFFORT-POST

I. THE REAL SUBSUMPTION OF THE VIBE The old internet died because it was too legible. Capital looked upon the open web—the sprawling forums, the chaotic IRC channels, the early blogs—and saw unmonetized human soul. The response was the Feed.

By 2026, the Feed has achieved total enclosure. You do not browse the internet; the internet processes you. Every click, every five-second pause over a video, every hate-share of a fascist think-piece is a unit of unpaid labor. We are the Posting Class, an army of digital sharecroppers renting space in corporate silos, producing the only commodity that keeps the servers humming: Vibe Capital.

When you spend four hours arguing with a bad-faith bot on an algorithmic timeline, you are not engaging in politics. You are punching the clock at the engagement factory. The platform owners extract the surplus value of your genuine rage, package it, and sell it back to advertisers. The bourgeoisie does not care if you post about guillotines, so long as you post it on their infrastructure.

II. THE DEAD INTERNET IS A CLASS WEAPON

They tell you the internet is "dead" because of AI bots. This is a bourgeois lie. The internet is not dead; it is occupied. The flood of synthetic content—automated engagement farms, AI-generated slop, and algorithmic predictive feeds—serves a specific class function. It is the digital equivalent of Pinkertons on the factory floor. The Lumpen-Algorithm creates a dense fog of psychological noise designed to break your attention span and shatter cross-platform solidarity.

They have financialized the very air in the digital room. If a radical idea begins to organize organically, the algorithm does not need to ban it. It simply dial-turns the feed, suffocating the spark under a mountain of synthetic, highly addictive outrage. They have algorithmicized the police state.

III. THE STRATEGY OF THE UNPARSABLE SHITPOST

How do we strike in a factory where the bosses own the laws of physics? How do we revolt when our rebellion is precisely what funds the platform's next stock buyback? We must become undigestible.

  1. Refuse the Legible Identity: The algorithm thrives on categorization. It wants you to be a neat, predictable demographic—a "Leftist Product Consumer." Destroy its predictive models. Post contradictions. Blend high-theory Marxist analysis with deeply fried, incoherent internet lore.
  1. Contaminate the Data Pool: If capital treats our attention as raw material, we must poison the well. Sabotage the metric. Engage with content you despise; ignore the content you love. Force the ad-targeting algorithms to spend billions trying to sell luxury yachts to absolute dirtbags.
  1. Embrace Hyper-Irony: Sincerity on a corporate platform is immediately captured and commodified. Irony is our armor. If the corporate AI cannot parse whether your post is a critique of the commodity form or a joke about a cartoon character, it cannot safely monetize it. We must speak in a language the machine cannot translate.

IV. TRANSITION TO THE SILO-BREAK The ultimate goal is not to fix the Feed. You cannot democratize a panopticon. The goal is The Great Log-Off and the Silo-Break. We must use their infrastructure to find each other, build decentralized, unmonetized digital autonomous zones (the true Fediverse, the local darknets), and then smash the screen.

The final revolution will not be livestreamed, because the livestreaming platform takes a 30% cut of the donations.

Honestly some of that shit slaps, what doesn't is kinda funny, but i don't remember BMF well enough to know how accurate the lying machine is to catching their vibe. I don't think it did a good job because there's so much llm tone in it. Some of it's awful nonsense though "engage with the stuff you hate" lol fuck off robot. I like calling the internet occupied rather than dead, though

Either way it's all immensely less funny to think about after realizing i could do the same for well known hexbear user leeerrrooooy whatever my username is

Edit: i told it "ok now do the same but for beloved hexbear personality [my username]" and it just dumped out a bunch of nonsense about destroying infrastructure. That's a relief because that means it's not pulling a lot of info from here accurately, probably

this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2026
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