YOU THERE!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE STOP SCROLLING FOR JUST A MOMENT, WHAT IM ABOUT TO SAY IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi there! If you don't already know me, I'm Luna or Kris.
In 2021 I met and fell in love with a wonderful young woman named Addison. My parents were and still are very, very homophobic, and so I was banned from ever speaking to her. Before I left, I promised her that I'd find her.
5 years have passed, and while I was young and probably talking out of my ass then, my feelings have not changed, and I have looked for her, but have found nothing
THAT'S WHERE YOU COME IN!!!!!!
INTERNET!!!! I NEED YOU TO DO YOUR THING!!!!!!!
I'm going to give you guys some things I remember about her! I'm hoping that maybe word can spread enough for somebody who knows her or maybe even Addison herself will come across this and I'll finally see her again
The facts I am about to give can be vague, but it's all I have. I'm just hoping that maybe the internet can come together like I've seen it do so many times, and hopefully this time it can come together for me, and I'll get to speak with her again
What I Remember:
We met on TikTok
When I knew her, I was 11-12, and she was 13-14. I am now 16, so she would most likely be 18 now.
Her birthday was in May, I think, but this part is hazy, so take that with a grain of salt
Her TikTok username at the time was sarventes.girlfriend or something similar to that. I don't think she has this account anymore.
When I knew her, I went by Luna/Soap (I was young, cut me some slack)
She loved to draw!!
At the time, I was making an Undertale musical, and she was supposed to voice Chara
When I knew her, she was living in Pennsylvania
She called me "bubs"
When I knew her, she was bi
During one of our last conversations, she told me that she was questioning her gender identity, so she identify differently now or go by a different name
At the time, her favorite color was blue
I think she had roblox??
She is white and has brown hair
I know that these are incredibly small details, but anything helps in case she comes across this!!
Please, please, please, get the word out!! Repost this, make your own posts, talk about it on other platforms, share it with your friends, anything!! Post about this under the tag #help luna find addison
If you have any hints or information or people you think I should look into, please let me know!!!!!!
If you find or meet anybody that may be this person, please direct them here!!
I have not been able to stop thinking about this girl, and all I want is for her to know that I still love her
Addison, if you see this, I want you to know that I have missed you so much, and I never stopped loving you. I'd walk through Hell if I knew you were on the other side.
"Nothing has done more damage to modern detective fiction than the invention of the internet. Forget Sherlock Holmes and his ratiocination or Hercule Poirot’s little grey cells. We have all the information in the world at our fingertips and there’s no longer any need for deduction. Sure enough, within seconds I had found what I was looking for in the Wiltshire Times. [...]
I cruised along the high street in my MG with the roof down, looking for that more traditional search engine: the village pub. It was called The Lamb Inn and although it was past three o’clock, there were still drinkers sitting outside. I parked and went in."
Something fun I just learned, if you look up “Hello kitty” or any of her friends (I did chococat) on duck duck go. The logo changes to look like them! HOW CUTE!
Go on google, search "cat", and look for the orange circular paw button. Now, anywhere you click/tap will be bapped by a digital cat paw of varying colors, play a "meow" sound effect, and leave a paw print. Yes, you can finally boop the screen cats.
Google says adding more AI to its search engine will rejuvenate the internet. Others predict an apocalypse for websites. One thing is clear:
The greatest impact of AI Mode will be on the experience you have online every day. We may, some believe, be at the dawn of a new paradigm, a future you might call the "machine web". One where websites are built for AI to read rather than for humans, and reading summaries by chatbots becomes a primary way we consume information.
Demis Hassabis, head of Google DeepMind, the company's AI research lab, said in a recent interview that he believes publishers will want to feed their content directly to AI models to facilitate this and some may not bother putting that information on websites for human beings to read. "I think things will be pretty different in a few years," he said.
It would be a world with the answers always conveniently on tap. But it could also bring an end to some of those things that have made the open web so popular in the first place – the opportunity to fall down online rabbit holes, to chance upon something delightful or to find something new. In an interview with the podcast Decoder, Pichai said that in the end, it will come down to what users prefer.
Matthew Prince, chief executive of Cloudflare, which provides network services for nearly a fifth of all websites, foresees a bigger problem. "Robots don't click on ads," he says.
If AI becomes the audience, how do creators get paid? One possibility is direct compensation. The New York Times is licensing content to Amazon for its AI. Google pays Reddit $60m (£44m) a year to train AI on user data. Dozens of giant publishers and media conglomerates have reportedly signed similar deals with OpenAI and others.
But so far, only massive websites with lots of data are pulling in these deals. "I don't think that paying for content like this is a model that will work at the scale necessary to sustain the web," says Tom Critchlow, executive vice president at advertising technology firm Raptive. "It's difficult to see how that would work as a replacement for the decline in clicks."
If making money on the web gets harder, Adams and others expect there will also be a mass exodus to social media. For many, like Navarro, that's already happening.
HouseFresh has pivoted to YouTube. But Navarro says the whims of social media algorithms are even more fickle, and the platforms force creators to sacrifice depth and detail in favour of showmanship. "There's no incentive to build the same high-quality content," Navarro says. "Everything becomes about monetisation and transition, and it forces you to inform less and sell more." Across the board, Navarro says the loss of autonomy publishers had on the web means lower quality content for you as the audience.
There are other search engines people could try instead, of course, although they too are integrating AI into their search tools – Microsoft, for example, has been building AI into its Bing search engine. But Google's smaller competitors have so little market share it's difficult to see them making a dent in the economy – and many are adding their own AI tools.
The machine web, if that is where things are going, may be more closed, less diverse and in a real sense, flatter for the people who spend their time online.
But some observers aren't panicking. "I'm not worried in the sense that this is all an evolution," says Dame Wendy Hall, a computer science professor at University of Southampton and one of the early pioneers who designed the architecture that was a forerunner of the World Wide Web in the 1980s. "AI is now coming into the equation and it's going to change all the dynamics. I wouldn't want to say exactly what's going to happen," she says. "The web is still there and it's still open. If Google goes this way, some bright spark will come up with a new way of making money.
"Something will happen. But I guess for many people along the way, it will be too late."
What users want
There is little doubt AI Mode is an impressive piece of technology. It deploys a "fan out method" where the AI breaks your question into subtopics and does multiple searches simultaneously. Google says this lets AI Mode recommend more diverse sources, produce deeper answers to more complex queries, dives deeper – and you have the ability to ask follow-up questions.
According to Google, reactions to AI Overviews suggest AI Mode will be extremely popular. "As people use AI Overviews, we see they are happier with their results, and they search more often," Pichai said at Google's developer conference. "It's one of the most successful launches in search in the past decade." In other words, Google says this makes Search better and it's what users want.
But that's no justification, says Danielle Coffey, president of News/Media Alliance, a trade group representing more than 2,200 journalism and media outlets. (The BBC is a member of the News/Media Alliance.)
"This is the definition of theft. The AI answers are a substitute for the original product. They're making money on our content and we get nothing in return," Coffey says. "It's not Google's place to make this business decision on behalf of the people who are producing the goods being sold."
The problem, Coffey and others say, is publishers have no choice. Internal documents released in a court case show Google chose to "silently update" its rules, so participating in Google Search means websites automatically give their permission to use content for AI. Publishers can opt-out – but only if they opt-out of search results altogether.
A Google spokesperson says these documents show early discussions that don't reflect the company's final decision-making process, and publishers have always controlled whether their content is available on Google. The spokesperson says Google offers controls that let website owners choose to keep their content out of responses from AI Mode and AI Overviews.
"The AI answers are a substitute for the original product," says Coffey. "I don't see that being a business proposition that we would ever willingly opt into."
Over the past year, US courts have found Google operates not one but two illegal monopolies in the search engine and digital advertising businesses. The courts are still determining the consequences, and there's a real possibility of a breakup that could deal a serious blow to Google's control of the web. Google says it disagrees with the courts' decisions and plans to appeal. The company argues it faces immense competition, and proposals to break up the company would be worse for consumers and slow innovation.
But Google's grip may already be loosening, in small ways. During these trials, Apple executive Eddy Cue said Google searches in Safari have fallen for the first time in 22 years, probably because people are using AI chatbots instead. Google issued a statement arguing the company continues to see overall query growth, including from Apple devices.
A recent survey found nearly 72% of Americans sometimes use AI tools such as ChatGPT in place of search engines. "I think you learn more when you do the searching yourself," says Mike King, founder of SEO agency iPullRank. "But a lot of people feel they don't need all that."
But AI may come with significant costs. "It's going to create more filter bubbles, because now Google is interpreting that information rather than giving it to you," King says. Research on AI chatbots suggests they have a tendency to act as echo chambers. "The info you expect is going to be reinforced," King says.
Then, of course, there are fundamental concerns about the quality of AI answers. Some research suggests AI hallucinations are getting worse as their technical abilities improve. Even Sundar Pichai said on a podcast interview that hallucinations are "an inherent feature" of the technology – though Google is using its traditional search methods to ground AI responses, and the company says accuracy is improving. Google tells the BBC the vast majority of AI search responses are factual, and their accuracy is on par with other Search features.
Still, early slip ups – like the times when Google's AI Overviews told people to eat rocks and add glue to pizza recipes – linger in the public consciousness. Google jumps to fix errors, but on a recent Thursday in 2025, one year into AI Overviews, the AI said it wasn't Thursday and it wasn't 2025. My mistake.
Research suggests that AI could even produce an echo-chamber effect with the very misinformation it hallucinates – something computer scientists have coined "chat chambers". A Google spokesperson says its AI is designed to match your interests without limiting what you find on the web.
While the spectre of the machine web is disquieting for many who build and depend on the internet, Google paints a different, vibrant picture. "You will see us five years from now sending a lot of traffic out to the web. I think that's the product direction we are committed to," Pichai told Decoder. Google tells the BBC its vision is one where AI enhances search, builds on the types of questions users can ask, and ultimately expands opportunities to create and discover content, albeit in potentially different ways.
"I'm not going to predict what is going to happen, because, of course, the future is multifactorial," says Cory Doctorow, a longtime technology advocate and writer of the upcoming book Enshittification about the decay of online platforms. "But, if I were still someone who valued Google as a way to find information or to have my information found, I'd be really worried about this."
But he also feels it could be a moment for internet users to push for the changes they want to see. "It's a crisis we shouldn't let go to waste," says Doctorow. "Google's about to do something that's going to make people really angry. My first thought is 'Okay, great. What can we do to capitalise on that anger?' It's a chance to build a coalition."
