i see YTPs as the ultimate exercise in creating stuff that’s transformative, and putting media in a completely different context to the original.

it’s also one of the things that AI cannot come up with, because there’s no way an algorithm can make a new connection between two completely unrelated pieces of media. sure, it could imitate existing ones, but coming up with a new thing to riff from is genuinely impossible.

YTPs are perhaps the most inherently human thing that came out of the internet, and I think that’s beautiful