It’s official - The “Dead Internet Theory” is real.

Cloudflare’s Radar tracks Bot vs Human Traffic, and you probably recently saw multiple articles boasting similar stats.

I was curious when this started, so I decided to try to zoom out. That particular stat seems to stop at the beginning of May 2026, so that is not that helpful.

According to Cloudflare’s Year In Review 2025, as far back as Jan 2025, human traffic only made up 45% of traffic, so we have been the minority for over a year.

Unless I am missing something, this means bots have been surpassing humans for a while now.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t find that same stat being tracked by Cloudflare in 2024.

Either way, this is a fascinating time. The internet was designed for computers to interconnect, but in service of humans. I hope that is still the case.

What are your thoughts on this?

Are we entering a new age of enlightenment?

Creating the Skynet?

Or just spending billions making giant space heaters that consume electricity and produce slop but calling it “Progress”?

Let me know what you think.