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If it feels similar radical are surviving successful their ain universes sometimes, it’s not that acold from the truth. A new study from Mother Jones digs up the amazingly populated satellite of pro-MAGA, AI-generated slop videos that person carved retired a niche connected YouTube by turning the astir r/thatHappened-ass stories into contented that Boomers and different folks successful request of immoderate copium happily thigh up.
The communicative highlights a mates of the biggest offenders, accounts similar Elite Stories and Mr. Robe Stories, on with a enactment of others that person created a MAGA alternate universe. The relationship uploads videos that are axenic AI slop from commencement to finish: AI narration telling a wholly fabricated communicative with AI-generated images sprinkled successful to exemplify it. The videos usually tally anyplace from 10 to 40 minutes—long capable to get successful a mates advertisement breaks to marque immoderate money. And arsenic Mother Jones points out, immoderate of the videos are so monetized.
Elite Stories has since disappeared from the platform—apparently banned by YouTube successful effect to Mother Jones’ reporting—but a cached mentation of the YouTube relationship that appears successful a Google hunt shows the relationship had much than 160,000 followers astatine the clip of its removal. An archived mentation of the relationship shows a sampling of the videos you tin find there: “A Little Girl Asks Trump About God – His Response Brings Her To Tears.” Other videos showcase Attorney General Pam Bondi and Clint Eastwood, for immoderate reason.
Mr. Robe Stories (what a name, by the way) is besides down now, but it had implicit 41,000 subscribers, and it provides a postulation of akin MAGA-tilted stories astir radical wronging figures from crossed the extended Trump universe, lone for them to get struck down by their 150 IQ heroes similar Baron Trump and White House property caput Karoline Leavitt.
Some of the Mr. Robe Stories uploads beryllium astatine conscionable a fewer 100 views, similar “Karoline Leavitt Claps Back Ruthlessly After Michelle Obama Mocks Donald Trump” which is truly conscionable a Mad Libs of nonsense that seemingly has not resonated with the audience. Others, though, rack up much than a cardinal views. “Barron Trump STANDS UP arsenic Professor Mocks Melania – His Response Shocks Everyone” broke the cardinal ticker people and is filled with comments from radical who are much than blessed to instrumentality the communicative arsenic fact.
“Barron is specified a respectful and well-raised young man. His parents indispensable beryllium proud!” a apical remark reads. “I person truthful overmuch respect for Baron and my sentiment of professor’s has lowered again!” different said. To beryllium just to the uploading account, each of the videos bash look to show a disclaimer astatine the commencement of the video that notes they are wholly works of fiction. But erstwhile radical privation to judge it’s true, they’re blessed to disregard the one-second-long informing connection and instrumentality the adjacent half-hour worthy of contented arsenic gospel.
Almost arsenic troubling arsenic the videos themselves and the commenters who privation severely to judge the stories are existent are the ads that are being served connected apical of them. In viewing these videos successful incognito mode (I’m not trying to fuck up my ain algorithm *that* bad), I was served mostly pseudo-scientific trash astir Alzheimer’s disease, including 1 that claimed the information is caused chiefly by drinking h2o astatine the incorrect temperature.
Earlier this week, YouTube issued a statement supporting the NO FAKES Act of 2025, a projected measure that would found protections for the dependable and ocular likeness of radical who whitethorn beryllium duplicated by generative AI tools. But it appears the level has a batch of enactment to bash successful moderating AI content. Gizmodo has reached retired to YouTube for comment.
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