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[–] Diogenes_The_Cynic [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

There is another way its already zombifying. In the earlier days of the internet, people used to frequently upload OC. Stuff like newspaper archives, digital libraries, etc. But since this is the commercial internet, they only stay up as long as people are willing to pay for it, so unless its a university server, its eventually gonna be erased from the internet.

I kinda do internet archaeology through my subverse v/staticwebpages. What I see frequently is that the high quality original uploads were put up really early on, then people start using that as reference material, then the reference material gets erased, but the articles written on top of the reference material stays up. Since the remaining best source material is now the secondary source, when people do research, thats what gets quoted, until the secondary material is scrubbed. If you rewash this remaining material enough times on increasingly poor quality source material, you end up with buzzshit.

We are certainly seeing that happening now.

But it'll get to a point where it becomes increasingly untenable to not have source material up.