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The Internet Isn’t Broken. It’s Just Not for You Anymore.

29 August 2026 19:31 Juan Faisal / Kate Cook

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Bots now generate 57.5% of web page requests. For the first time, machines are making more requests to web pages than humans, and more of the internet is being rebuilt around them.

This isn’t the dead internet theory, because the internet is very much alive. But the thing is, more of it is being designed for AI agents, while we humans are becoming an afterthought.

Juan and Kate run the receipts: Cloudflare says bots now generate 57.5% of web requests, 18 months ahead of its CEO’s own prediction. Agentic AI traffic grew 7,851% in a single year. Stripe reports that 70% of its API commands already come from agents, and a quarter of developers now build their APIs with AI as the primary customer.

So what happens when the web’s most important users aren’t people?

When an AI agent can cancel your gym reservation because an API has zero authorization checks, and more systems are being built for agents to act on our behalf, what happens to the ad-funded, human-facing internet?

Will it even exist as we know it five years from now?


ABOUT SLOP WORLD

AI news with receipts. Juan Faisal and Kate Cook fact-check the claims Big Tech is making about AI, follow the money, and break down what it actually means for your job, your data, and your daily life. From leaked data and corporate cover-ups to AI schools, stolen identities, and layoff headlines that don’t add up, we cover the AI stories that everyone’s hyping but nobody’s verifying. New episodes every Thursday.


DISCLAIMER

All content is commentary and opinion based on publicly available documents, interviews, and verifiable sources. References to “scams,” “grifts,” or related terms reflect our editorial opinion, not legal conclusions. Anyone featured who believes a statement is inaccurate may contact us.


CHAPTERS

00:00 The Dead Internet Theory Just Got Proof

01:32 Why AI Agents Visit 5,000 Sites at Once

03:17 How AI Scraping Crushed Cara

04:54 Why Does Everything Online Feel Fake Now?

06:41 How Bots Took Over r/BuyItForLife

08:35 The Band Geese Was a Total AI Psyop

10:51 AI Didn't Invent Fake Trends. It Scaled Them.

12:38 The Internet's New Go-To Insult: You're a Bot

14:16 Why the Internet Became the Opposite of The Matrix

16:33 You Don't Deserve Nice Things Right Now

18:22 Your New Front Door to the Internet Is an LLM

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