PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory hallofdreams.org

David and Felipe”, Hall of Impossible Dreams:

At first glance, ravenprp is a very impressive user, writing 2,891 posts in a mere seven-month span (from September 2006 to April 2007) for average of more than thirteen posts per day. […]

Impressively, these posts span from three years before the account was created to a year after the account was last logged into. And, as the icing on the cake, ravenprp is prescient enough that he can joke about being a language model developed by OpenAI, seven years before OpenAI was even founded; evidently he should have joined PsychicsForums instead.

Not just a story about an increasingly poisoned web, but also one about identity. For future reference, I will note X, with its integrated LLM, claims ownership of users’ accounts and has not been shy to steal usernames for its own purposes.