Kids happen to like weird shit like pregnant spider-man pooping on the joker. They're kids after all, I found poop jokes hilarious as a kid. So you got people just making content out of that to appeal to kids using their parents phones or tables to watch yt. I remember too in a lot of them in the comments sections it was random gibberish and that tracks for a kid trying to type away.
Some of it may have been AI, but there was a lot of live-action videos too. It was all no-budget studios acting in a way that mimicked the algorithm in order to earn money from it, it was mainly post-postmodern.
In some ways optimizing your content based on metrics in a relatively mindless way is kind of how AI functions anyway. Even if it isn't AI generated, it kind of sort of is?
Artists tend to make works that are influenced by the stuff they saw as kids. When the kids who saw that stuff grow up, art and media is going to be weird.
I remember there was a whole subreddit dedicated to "elsagate"
I think it was just a proto AI churning out content to monetize YT channels
Chuds had a big conspiracy that it was all planned to groom kids and not just people gaming the algo for ad revenue.
It was pretty far fetched.
Kids happen to like weird shit like pregnant spider-man pooping on the joker. They're kids after all, I found poop jokes hilarious as a kid. So you got people just making content out of that to appeal to kids using their parents phones or tables to watch yt. I remember too in a lot of them in the comments sections it was random gibberish and that tracks for a kid trying to type away.
Lmao i remember everyone trying to say that the comments were like, coordinates or codes for sex trafficking stuff.
Honey, no, this is bots making content and a mix of bots commenting, and kids randomly poking at their family Ipad
It's the meme of the anime cat typing and chuds doing the
sex trafficking coordinates?
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Why not both?
Some of it may have been AI, but there was a lot of live-action videos too. It was all no-budget studios acting in a way that mimicked the algorithm in order to earn money from it, it was mainly post-postmodern.
In some ways optimizing your content based on metrics in a relatively mindless way is kind of how AI functions anyway. Even if it isn't AI generated, it kind of sort of is?
You know more than I do then ¯\(ツ)/¯
Artists tend to make works that are influenced by the stuff they saw as kids. When the kids who saw that stuff grow up, art and media is going to be weird.