Google Hints It Will Penalize Interlinked Link Schemes?

Google's John Mueller posted a cryptic tweets this morning with a dark photo with the date, October 6, 2021 imprinted on an object. John's tweet says "A system of sites interlinked." To me, this says Google has claimed interlinked sites as a link strategy as dead as of October 6th - but John did not say much more.

what does the above mean to you?

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-interlinked-link-schemes-32207.html

I don’t it’ll penalize them. That would be stupid since most people do that naturally without thinking of SEO. Maybe interlinking won’t be penalized, but will lose some of its power. That would be the sanest thing to do.

Ps. Sorry, this “John” doesn’t have Matt’s charm.

Sorry Google buy nice try better luck next time

John is always blowing steam in Twitter. Stuff he said not to do ages ago is widely used and working. “Don’t build links” lol