The Prepper Broadcasting Network - 2026 Predictions: Online Life Has Peaked

Episode Date: January 7, 2026

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2026 predictions PBN family the end or the peak of online peak online is upon us in 26 may have been upon us in 2025 no I don't know the metrics But I'm sure you can find out, right? I'm sure you can find out, but the nature of many aspects of onlining, be it phones, be it internets, be it, what have you, video games, the whole thing. The very nature of it is coming to an end. And when I say an end, I don't mean that there will be no video games, there will be no phones, no.

No, what I mean is 2026 will look back. say this is when we really recognize the peak online people being online and the online sort of fanaticism that really clicked on in 2020 has come to an end i say this for a number of reasons and we'll talk about each as we go okay we'll talk about each as we go probably one of the biggest in terms of peak online is uh fundamentally the quality of the online experience, right? The quality of the online experience has so dipped over the last five years and I think maybe the last three at most.

I think that it's having a serious effect. You know what I mean? It's having a serious effect on people. If you, I think if you pulled out the division, if you could pull out the division in the United States of America, then you would see even less. I think you would see even less people online. I do think that the sheer division in the nation keeps people searching for their own little groups online because they are, they have concerns about life outside of the online community. They have concerns about what it might look like to talk to people in real life because of that

or join real-life groups and concern themselves with like the ostracizing of, you know, their belief system and all that, whatever, getting kicked out of the group. So I think that's a big one. A big one is sort of the overall quality of the experience, you know? The 2020, everything was free. Remember? In 2020, everything was free or cheap. I mean, really what?

Like the vast majority of things that are now paid and paid subscriptions or the subscription price has doubled or tripled. I mean, you go back and look at the price of like a Netflix or an Amazon Prime or whatever the situation is, you know, some kind of subscription. A lot of apps were free. No subscription necessary. Now they are, you know, and you can't blame these companies, right? They get a certain size user base and this is what they do. But all that being said, there's a certain amount of people that are like, ah. you know

I really think another big reason that we saw the peak of online is because the peak of online creativity has come to an end and it's not that the saddest part about this guys is not that the creatives aren't online

it's just you can't see them or not even worse probably is the fact that not only can you not see them because a lot of times they're buried by the algorithm but once you come across something that is monumental our brains have been conditioned to go to the next thing no that was amazing wow okay next thing you know what i mean i watch these animations or uh listen to songs or see things that are like you know they're breathtaking oh okay on to the next one right so that mentality in

itself is wearing people out. I think the whole thing, where online, the literal online experience used to be an escape, a time to catch a breath, a time to recharge, a time to be inspired. You know, sort of the hijacking of the human brain for monetization. The algorithmic tyranny is created a landscape that just kind of sucks, right? It kind of sucks. And that's all there is to it. A lot of people are on to it.

A lot of people are on to it. You get yourself a ghost phone like I have. You'll be blown away at what the Internet looks like. You'll be blown away at what the algorithm does when it knows you compared to when it doesn't know you. It's wild. It really is. If you don't sign into things and give away data and information in that way, the Internet really struggles to know you.

And it's a much better place when it doesn't know. you when it doesn't want to meet your every preference it's a much better place to play it just is but we're all locked in we're all signed in we're all logged in we're all focused in we're all you know getting AI generated content recommendations now that suck which brings me to to AI to AI you know and and the sheer lack of of being able to discern is also going to kill and has already begun to kill your time on the internet. You know, one of the great things about a platform like YouTube or Instagram

was that you were seeing the creative process, the thought process, the risk-taking, the whole sort of gamut of what it is to create a piece of content, be it a simple photograph or a piece of art or a video or even audio, right? When it comes to art and it comes to audio, you can't tell what is AI and what isn't anymore. When it comes to legitimate art, right? Things that you would swipe by typically and go, wow, that's really nice oil on canvas or watercolor or whatever.

Degone, you can't tell. Music, you can't tell. You can't tell with music. Music's the first to go, by the way. It really is impossible to tell and sometimes really good. Video will get there. Images, kind of there already, to some degree. But the problem is, when you ventured online,

you were venturing into a human space, right? And in that human space, you saw great risk, you saw great success, you saw great beauty, you saw great art, you saw great things. You heard and saw great things. And they were crafted by the hand of a human, and their sacrifice and their skill and their struggle and their thought process and so on and so forth was evident, right? It was clearly evident. And you were able to say, you know, I really like this.

I really like this. And it's really cool that some humans, someone, was able to create this thing. That feeling is going to disappear more and more as every day goes by. As every day goes by, an artificial intelligence infects the whole internet experience. The internet as a whole, the online experience as a whole, is going to continue to denature. It's going to continue to be shit. You know what I mean?

You're going to continue to go like, I don't know what I'm looking at anymore. I don't know if it's real. I don't know if it's not real. I don't know if a human made it. I don't, you know. Which brings me to another take, which is volume. You know, just the sheer volume, I think, is going to kill the online experience, too. Right?

It's volume, volume, volume, volume, volume. It's content, content, content. To a point where it's like, what is the point of all this volume? Like, what are we doing here? What is this? What are we doing? How am I supposed to appreciate something? How am I supposed to really like enjoy a thing?

Like you're talking to a kid from the 90s who would watch a videotape a thousand times, right? Is there any video podcast that you've watched a hundred times, 50 times, 20 times? Right? So I think that it breeds a sort of guilt in you after a while. Or at least it does in me. And it breeds this strange feeling in you that is like, do I appreciate anything online? Is there anything online I appreciate for 60 seconds or more? You know what I mean?

And it's just not the right frame of mind. And it comes from this voluminous amount of content, right? It's like it's just a never-ending amount of content. It's crazy. It's absolutely crazy. so the other big thing that's happening too um because online is dominated by several things right it's searches it's uh it's social media it's news and that kind of stuff but it there's another aspect to it also which is which is uh well quite frankly it's video games right

Video games is a massive piece of the puzzle. There's no getting around that. Video games is a huge piece of the puzzle. And the quality of video games themselves has also been collapsing in recent years. I mean, really, in a big way. I see these big titles come out. I have two experts that I live with on this topic, okay? Experts.

Yeah. It's not a thing. You know what I mean? It's these big AAA titles that used to grip the world, you know, like the video gaming world. Like, oh my God, the new Call of Duty. Oh, my God. The new Madden. Like, these games come out, man, and they are the same game that the last game was.

It's the iPhone syndrome, right? And video games just aren't that great. Online video gaming interaction, online interaction and video gaming seems to be key and king. but even that I think will be a flash in the pan due to the fact that people are gross right the biggest video game platform in the world Roblox has been completely hijacked by pedophiles

completely hijacked by digital terrorists people monsters groups of demonic people who are you know convincing kids to take illicit photographs of themselves and send them to them and then basically enslaving them to their whatever, whatever they want you to do, you do whatever I say or I'm releasing these pictures. It's a whole story for another day, but look up the 745 group, I think it's called. Well, don't just look it up.

Brace yourself if you really want to get sick about the world and then you can look it up. But this is a reality of what's going on on the online world. And these sort of interactions that used to be fun and free and, you know, just a great time. The online gaming experience for kids, it's changing and it's changing rapidly. And it's becoming a playground for monsters. That's what's happening. You know, that's a real thing. That's really happening.

That has really happened. Minecraft, Roblox, these are the places that sick bastards go to find kids. to, you know, do any number of things to or try to, you know, the whole, just a full gamut of disgusting pedophilia and even worse, even just straight violence. So with the world like that, all of a sudden you add decisions to parents, right? Where it was once like my buddy at school plays, well, where it once was everybody plays Minecraft and it's not online. Okay, it's an easy sell to parents, right?

It's a building game. It's a fun game. There's no blood. There's no nudity. You know what I mean? It's just one of these things that is what it is, right? And don't get me wrong. It's incredibly engrossing.

But then all of a sudden, multiplayer is added, and now it's okay. We got this multiplayer thing. Well, we'll monitor your friend's list and make sure that, you know, that's the, and then it goes into a situation. Well, now it's like an enormous game. Everybody in the world plays it. Everybody in the world interacts in these massive online game settings. And now it's a decision for parents.

Now it's a real decision for parents. And for a lot of parents, that decision is going to be no. The reversion of video gaming is probably what's happening right now, the reversion, right? Like, going from sort of a no-holds-barred online video gaming experience where you fight and play and build and, you know, interact with thousands of different people, it's changing. It's changing rapidly. You know what I mean? And that's what it is. It's changing rapidly.

It's going to change rapidly. And again, these online interactions, these video games, these things are highly addictive. man and that's what they are on top of it all so pretty soon you find yourself in a situation where these things go away or they start to become less of a piece of a kid's life or even an adult's life and nobody's losing sleep over it right there's no outcry for we need the kids online more there's no outcry for we need the kids uh playing more video games there's no outcry for that doesn't exist so then you just you know slice off another gigantic swathe of uh of kids from online and that's you know that's the deal man that's just what the

deal is it just this is the direction things are going because everything's been monetized everything's been maximized and everything online is is mutated into what it used to be there are entire movements of people who are limiting, if not eliminating their time online. It's a massive motivation. It's a massive thing, right? It's more time in the real world. Remember, there are kids that are growing into adults,

and these kids that are growing into adults never do a time offline, right? They never knew offline existed. I mean, they knew it existed, but they never knew they never experienced a life where offline wasn't an option. There are giant organizations like the offline club that are gathering together massive amounts of people all over the world, right? Like there are chapters and clubs that are opening up

where kids, you know, not 30-somethings, like 16 to mid-20s, are meeting in droves in a park to, uh, read books listen to music on an iPad or an iPod rather sit journal talk no phones come

no devices come whatsoever right and and this is the nature of things guys like this is what's happening with the online world this is what's happening with the online world and there's no way

I don't care what AI is capable of, I don't care, like, you're not reinvigorating the online experience, right? We know too much about health and wellness. We know too much about the addictive nature of things like short form content. We know too much about the tyranny behind it all. You watch what we want you to watch. The cat is out of the bag. And I think we'll look back at 2026 and say, like, we reached peak online.

And now is the time to build that beautiful life outside of the online distraction world, right? Like I said, it's not the death of it by any stretch. And nor should it be, right? Because as a tool, it's amazing. Your ability to be online and to access people all over the world and to access information from people all over the world. and to have these incredible experiences in video gaming and that kind of thing there's nothing wrong with it you know really it's just disgusting people and greed have turned things into hell online and it's not a thing you can tweak right it's not a dial

you can't just say well let's dial back the artificial intelligent generated content on the internet let's just dial it back a little bit no you have no power the beautiful thing about online is that it was as free-flowing in operation as possible it was it was a creation that was completely human in the digital realm whatever became of online became of online because people in other words that it goes as we go and there's really no messing with it you know what i mean there's really no tweaking it you can't tweak the overall online experience the only thing you ever could tweak about online was was uh speed right that that was about it you could tweak the speed at which

you could access the internet and now everybody has the fastest access possible right so it doesn't really matter that much what goes on the internet internet what shows up on the internet how the internet's managed at large what it is you know all those kinds of things yeah it is what it is what i mean another big thing uh that i think is popping up all over the place is i don't know what the numbers are because you know it it what the internet is is i mean it's hard to get quantified any other way but when you look at the numbers what the internet is is mostly pornography with a section for everything else. You know, I mean, you look at the volume of searches and usage and all that kind of stuff.

It's mind-boggling, the amount of, you know, the quantity of usage of the Internet geared towards pornography. I think that also is going to decline. I think there are many, it's not just one movement. There are many movements to break the shackles of pornography and pornography addiction on men and women. There's an awareness about pornography addiction on men and women like never before. There are massive communities and apps. And it's just the entire movement that has snowballed over the years to help people escape the clutches of pornography. And again, this goes back to peak usage.

Right. If people are leaving, if people are getting offline, if people are moving offline for this reason, then that's exactly what the hell is going on, right? It's another big chunk of online time that is being taken off the table. I mean, that just is what it is. Right? That just is what it is. There's no getting around these things. that one who knows right maybe that one is not as crystal clear as the rest because people can say a thing and do a different thing but i do know that there's a tremendous amount of content there's a tremendous amount of movements um out there in the world about this there is a rise in christianity and that overcoming of lust concept i see like everywhere i see it popping up um and it's It's a thing now.

That's what it is. It's a thing now. And it's a thing that will take a bite out of the online world. I'm not cheering much of this. It's not like I want to see the end of the internet. There's a lot of people like, if the internet never existed, life would be better. Maybe.

I don't know. Could have been. Probably. In many ways, probably. But I also have a lot of great memories of online interaction. You know, I have a business. Two businesses built. online really three and you know these things you can't just you don't get the ability to hop on

a radio station and say what the hell you want before the internet so rather than bandy on about it there are more reasons there are more things for sure and more reasons that i think uh we will find ourselves in a situation where we look back and say 2026 was peak the the week we we began to notice that the internet had peaked in 2026 and something like an exodus was beginning right that's my prediction for this year what to do with that information i have no clue guys i'm making predictions

that's what i said i do you know what i mean that's what i said i'd say take high like take advantage of it as a prepper as a survival is As someone who loves the outdoors, I look at it as an opportunity to convene with others. I look at it as an opportunity to teach others. I look at it as an opportunity to expose people to this big, wide world that they forgot existed over the years, right? You know you forgot it existed. A lot of times, I mean, I forget it exists in a 10-hour period.

I mentioned this the other day in a 10-hour period of working hard. spending a lot of time buried in a computer and then spending time in you know with family television dinner all with inside my four walls this time a year around four 45 five o'clock I step outside and the sun is setting to the west and I look over there and it's breathtaking and it's it's breathtaking and my eyes see something because your your eyes are designed to see the world we just torture them into seeing the screen or even the windshield, right? Things as limiting as that have an effect on your view. You're like your, I want to say your worldview, but that's, it is your worldview, but not worldview in the

sense that you're thinking, right? The screens have an effect on your capacity to enjoy the full scope of what you can see, right? And to go from zero to 100 is to do just that, is to see within your four walls, to see within your screens, and then all of a sudden to go outside and see the horizon on fire, right? And go, wow, this world is out here. And we need a constant reminder that this world is out here. It's imperative, right? So we get out and we see, oh, this world is out here, and it's waiting for us.

And it's a beautiful thing, man. and more of that's going to happen there's going to be more people going out and seeing the world it's going to be more people having relationships you know there's going to be more people stepping out of the divisive political driven internet and just saying I'd much rather get back to life so that's my prediction

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