Growing Alarm as Widespread Web Writing May Be Slop, But Who’s Reading Any of It?

Watch out for digital zombies on May 4, 2026 It’s fair to say the World-Wide Web has been under heavy fire nearly since it began. “The Web is Dead!” has become a meme headline, much like “The Year of Linux on the Desktop” or “Trump Posts Something Controversial”. So yes, I do tend to roll my eyes when I hear an alarmist take that the Open Web as we have known it is over. This is true even of the…