elle

seeing some millennials repeatedly fall for slop YouTube nostalgia channels with 10m+ videos coming out every 3-4 days and scripts/descriptions that scream chatgpt is so demoralizing

even moreso when you can see YouTube has marked the video as such under the description

Apr 23 at 6:35pmWeb
Show threadelleApr 23
pictured: definitely a script written and read by a person
Show thread🇹 TiApr 23
@vantiss it's actually one two a hundred episodes. They were counting in their head. /s
Show threadClaire, The Ultimate WorrierApr 23
@vantiss slop nostalgia channels?
Show threadelleApr 23
@waitworry
stuff millennials tend to be nostalgic for, like old Disney or Nickelodeon content, "lost" media, weird product lines or toys from the 90s, etc
Show threadClaire, The Ultimate WorrierApr 23
@vantiss but how would you be nostalgic for something a slop machine made up?
Show threadelleApr 23

@waitworry
oh, I mean, it's typically about a real thing

but the video is generally mostly or entirely ChatGPT written, commonly uses AI-generated background music and/or visual stills when not showing direct pictures/shots of the media, and sometimes has AI-generated narration at various levels of quality

Show threadelleApr 23

@waitworry
the thing my screenshot is from is about an entirely real show

but it's AI-scripted and read with AI stills and probably also background music

Show threadClaire, The Ultimate WorrierApr 23
@vantiss oh ok I guess people are just letting it run in the background while they eat dinner or something