I used to somewhat naively subscribe to dead internet theory not because I had unspoken faith in the peepil or whatever but because I was genuinely incredulous that norms und groids even had the capacity to be bothered to learn to utilize the internet.
The trick is to lampoon and show them for what they are, and this is why frog humor was most disturbing to these people. Sam Hyde did more for our side than any theoretical treatise, not to speak of the Reichlarpers that play into globohawmaw's hands