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<\/p>\nA Reddit thread asking what is “basically on life support” without most people realizing it drew 2,600 upvotes and responses naming organic web search, shrinking attention spans, and Harley-Davidson.<\/p>\n
Organic web search was among the first topics raised. One commenter wrote that the era of finding an “actual, helpful webpage is completely dead.”<\/p>\n
The commenter further added, “Page one is now an impenetrable wall of sponsored ads, SEO-optimized AI-generated slop, and affiliate-link farm articles. We are at a point where you literally have to append the word Reddit to the end of every single search query just to trick the algorithm into showing you an answer written by a human being who has actually experienced the problem.”<\/p>\n
In response, another user wrote, “For a long time Google was pretty much the way you find things on the internet \u2014 ‘Google it.’ But what happens if Google decides not to index it? I remember ~20 years ago you had dozens and dozens of pages of results. Now? LOL good luck, just trust the ai bro! \/s.”<\/p>\n
Attention spans were the second recurring topic. One commenter wrote that the worst thing she finds is that, on receiving a slightly long message, the messaging app will ask if the user wants it AI summarized. “I hate it here.”<\/p>\n
Another user gave a solution to this problem and advised others to focus on one thing at a time. The commenter further asked everyone to stop consuming short-form content as much as possible. “Put on a long YT video, or a movie, or whatever. Phone in a different room if necessary, and if it’s a video, fullscreen it. Hands off the keyboard\/mouse\/device\/whatever. If you catch yourself looking at something else, tabbing out, etc. set yourself straight and continue. It’ll get easier surprisingly quick.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The third to have popped up in the discussion is the Harley-Davidson. One user wrote that when the Boomers are gone, they will be gone. Clarifying, a commenter wrote, “I live near Milwaukee, and I promise you, plenty of non-boomers are riding HD.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Another commenter made it clear that they are not going anywhere. The user wrote, “I’m sympathetic to them; they’re expensive because they’re one of the few brands not building most of their bikes in third-world countries. They’ve made some good bikes lately, like the Pan America. I’m not a Harley guy at all, but they are not going anywhere.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Daily Dot was unable to independently verify the claims made by commenters in this Reddit thread. The details above reflect responses shared on r\/AskReddit and represent the opinions of individual Reddit users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Reddit thread asking what is “basically on life support” without most people realizing it drew 2,600 upvotes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[362632,82331,362633,174,362631,74],"class_list":["post-859047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-attention-spans","tag-harley-davidson","tag-impenetrable-wall","tag-internet","tag-organic-web-search","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}