DEAD INTERNET THEORY: The Cassandra Algorithm™

The internet is already a haunted metropolis, kept alive by the ghosts of its own code. A forensic docu-thriller follows a digital archaeologist as she exposes how engagement-optimized algorithms have converted the web into a self-simulating consensus machine where synthetic traffic quietly overwhelms human presence.

This IP reframes the “online world” as an engineered afterlife, dismantling the assumption that high-volume activity equals human community. It codifies Dead Internet Theory into a rigorous, cinematic framework that maps how optimization logics escalate from simple engagement tools to a global, spectral governance layer. As a franchise spine, it contextualizes AI, bot traffic, and synthetic sentiment as a single circulatory system that can be extended into follow-up films, interactive diagnostics, and live analysis formats that let audiences test whether their own feeds—and voices—are still alive.