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The Dead Internet Report<br>Six corners of the web AI is switching off.<br>Famous corners of the internet are going quiet as AI answers the questions, makes the images, and does the small jobs people used to come for. This is a running series that measures those collapses — each one anchored to public, recomputable data, each number something you can pull yourself. No estimates, no vibes.<br>Every figure recomputable<br>Each number here is a query away — a public API, a stock ticker, a pageviews feed. Pull it and check us.
One honest window, not the scariest one<br>Stocks carry bubbles, SPACs, a failed merger; Quora is private. We fence off every confounder and anchor each collapse to its cleanest defensible AI-era number.
We cut what didn't hold<br>Digg and Tumblr were on the list. The data said their declines weren't AI — Digg's interest even grew — so they aren't here.
The series<br>Six collapses, one cause<br>Five domains of the human web — developer Q&A, homework, stock imagery, freelance work, general Q&A — plus the giant that sued. Each report measures one collapse from a source you can re-query.<br>No. 1<br>The Great Stack Overflow Collapse<br>−98.5%<br>New developer questions per month fell from 109,301 the month ChatGPT launched to 1,624 — a 98.5% collapse in the human Q&A that trained the machines.<br>Stack Exchange API · 127 monthsRead →<br>No. 2<br>The Chegg Collapse<br>−48% in a day<br>The homework giant lost half its value the morning after it named ChatGPT on an earnings call — $96.53 down to 98 cents, below the delisting line.<br>Yahoo Finance · monthly closeRead →<br>No. 3<br>The Shutterstock Collapse<br>$121 → $5<br>It licensed its library to OpenAI and shipped its own generator — and generative image AI commoditized stock photography anyway.<br>Yahoo Finance · WikimediaRead →<br>No. 4<br>The Fiverr Collapse<br>the two-year fuse<br>Gig work didn't crash on launch day. Fiverr held flat for two years, then fell 71% as the models finally got good enough to do the tasks.<br>Yahoo Finance · monthly closeRead →<br>No. 5<br>The Quora Collapse<br>−43%<br>The place you went to ask a human. Public search interest fell 43% as ChatGPT began answering the exact questions Quora was built for.<br>Wikimedia pageviews · interestRead →<br>No. 6<br>The Getty Images Collapse<br>sued & lost<br>Getty took Stability AI to court in two countries — and lost the case and 98.6% of its value. You can't litigate your way out of a capability shift.<br>Yahoo Finance · court recordRead →
The honest fine print. Three of these are share prices, which carry more than AI: we throw away the 2021 bubble peaks, flag Getty's SPAC debut, and fence off the failed Getty–Shutterstock merger, anchoring each to the cleanest pre-confounder window. Quora is privately held, so we measure public search interest, not traffic, and say so at every turn. Where a number could be read two ways, each report shows both and tells you which one we lead with.
The author<br>Written by Hesham Mashhour<br>Founder, HarperFlow
About HeshamA University of Cambridge graduate and medical doctor turned creator — his YouTube channel NeuroEverything has grown past 40,000 subscribers breaking down brain science. He later turned automation engineer, building content pipelines for founders and creators who'd rather build than market. He started HarperFlow on one conviction: great ideas deserve exposure, and the people best at building things usually have the least time to promote them. He writes from the workbench — HarperFlow runs its own pipeline, on its own blog, first.<br>LinkedIn · GitHub · NeuroEverything · Crunchbase · Book a call
Check our work<br>Every number, from a public source you can query<br>No dashboard. No private panel.<br>You don't need our spreadsheet — you need the same open feeds we used. Every figure in the series comes from one of three public sources, and each report names which one it leans on.<br>Stack Exchange API · new questions per month · Part 1<br>Yahoo Finance · monthly closing price · Parts 2 · 3 · 4 · 6<br>Wikimedia Pageviews API · monthly article pageviews · Part 5
Pull the Stack Exchange question total for the stackoverflow tag month by month; hit the Yahoo Finance monthly-chart endpoint for CHGG, SSTK, FVRR and GETY; query the Wikimedia pageviews API for the Quora article. Same inputs, same numbers. If you recompute a figure and get a different answer,...