The New TERRIFYING YouTube Meta

[@LSMark]

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[@krewstudios3467]

First

[@Nzcade]

Real

[@TheBetterchannel-]

I love ur vids

[@CydonianSky]

Holy Crap Mark McConville you aren't 6 hours too late

[@DomiRBX]

Hi LS Mark, I hope you're doing well! I'm currently developing a free streaming platform that's similar to Netflix but entirely free for users. I'm a big fan of your work, especially Cartoon Catching Up, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in collaborating. I'd love to feature Cartoon Catching Up on the platform. Could we discuss this further and explore how we can make this happen? Let me know the best way to get in touch with you. Looking forward to your response!

[@Bloomser]

Was literally just talking to another KZbinr about a South Park channel that has been getting a bunch of views lately and seems to be using AI to at least partially write their scripts. (Not quite as lazy as these channels, but clearly being run by some big company, since the videos have been super polished from the beginning) I got in contact with one of their editors and learned that these types of channels have entire teams of people from all over the world working on them, that run multiple channels all doing the same thing. This is a huge rabbit hole.

[@poppip10]

I’d say it’s crazy how big this whole thing is but at this point it’s about what I would expect from the internet.

[@YouSirViews]

Whatever it takes for internet money

[@zerron2156]

Where do I apply

[@SirChips4946]

Is it Ceric Artman?

[@explodinghammeronthe17thof36]

Exposing the "The times peter griffin was a hero in family guy" RABBIT HOLE!!.. SHE WAS 12.

[@RT60]

Growing up one of the most fun things about finding new channels talk about shows I liked were how each creator had their own original ideas, style, and humor so knowing that kids now are just watching Watchmojo 2.0 is so annoying bruh

[@radiomanhans]

rt60?

[@bippbunn]

​@@radiomanhans wasnt expecting him to be here as well hahahah

[@rubyy.7374]

As a 2010s kid, I watched Watchmojo 1.0. That’s just how it is.

[@amelialonelyfart8848]

Yeah... it really feels increasingly hard to find channels that talks about things because they enjoy them and not chasing quick bucks. I still think about some random channel I found in like 2012 filmed in some dude's poorly lit basement, dressed up like Snake Plisken, talking about Dragon Ball, or a channel from 2008 that did biographies on Ranma 1/2 characters.

[@PikaCheeks]

Tbh I enjoyed Watch Mojo back in the day like at around 2012-2015, they were pretty good I reckon but I did understand that they were slop at the same time. But now they're just BAD.

[@Nebbuwu]

unwatchable. you forgot to put brian in the thumbnail update: brian is now in the second version of the thumbnail. this video is now watchable

[@Patodeagua213]

You fool The white background...IS BRIAN! he is just too big

[@Delifte]

i can still see both versions lol

[@AFOOp-u8f]

I can’t even see Brian 💀

[@Patodeagua213]

@@Delifte junkil pfp based

[@kitsonicko]

GRACIAS AMIGO + YOU ROCK + YOU MAKE WAY BETTER CONTENT THAN YFGA + YOU DESERVED A GOLD MEDAL + W + I ASKED + YOU ARE AMAZING + THANK YOU

[@SomeFuzzheads]

5:43 I actually clicked on that video thinking it would be some kind of essay with an in depth look at poorly aged episodes that had feedback from the writers or something but no, it was just some KZbin Shorts slop I've never clicked off a video faster than that one

[@thisismyname603]

Loser 😂

[@RainiiDay7]

It is so disappointing. This is why channels like TheRealJims I have a special appreciation for. Taking the time to peel and analyze every detail of an episode to see the best and worst in it. The best thing about these "videos" are the comments within them, cause thats where the actual opinions are.

[@notaninstrument7707]

It’s bc it looks like a Karsten Runquist style video

[@Johnny2Cellos]

Lmao I JUST started outlining a video about these, glad other people are talking about it

[@SamuraiVertHD]

Same, it wouldn't rip out your intestines to just be original

[@pass_]

it looks like we were all subconsciously noticing it, like in the past month these thumbnails seem to take up a vast majority of new revi- oh sorry I mean """video essay""" content

[@Yoshiedude]

Still make the video, more awareness is good

[@nmmilton]

You saw them too?! They pop after watching like one family guy video. I don't watch them because they talk about stuff I already got from both watching the episodes when they aired and the KZbin videos people made doing "the worst/best things" lists over 6 years ago.

[@Ueslx.600]

I don’t know my dad’s phone dating dating dating the ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding ding

[@stephenmorris341]

Y'know that option called "not interested"? The button you click after you've clicked the 3 dots? That is without a doubt gotta be the most useless feature on YT. Doesn't matter how many times u click that, the algorithm will still recommend shit *YOU''RE NOT INTERESTED IN* if not even more than usual Just one of many examples of how much of a shitty joke KZbin has become.

[@StarkMaximum]

Me: Don't recommend this channel. KZbin the next day: Now listen, I _know_ you said...

[@AFishInPajamas]

​@@StarkMaximum "Don't recommend this channel because I hate the subject it focuses on." KZbin: Okay, how about a different channel focused on the same subject?

[@Halfendymion]

As useful as the dislike button on comments

[@unknownuser993]

It works once you do this enough times. You’d mark a few dozen channels before that though.

[@greenstarlover1]

I usually delete videos I'm not interested in from my watch history. Mostly works.

[@littlemeow124]

These content farms are literally what WatchMojo have been doing since 2009!

[@WasiuGiwa-ul4hs]

Yes I blame them for starting this also don’t forget screen rant they call everything reference or Easter egg

[@R-p1g]

Now watch them make a video called "top 10 KZbin creators that died too soon" Literally a few days after a well loved CC died. Watch Mojo did this when Technoblade died and even used his face in the the thumbnail and the so long nerds clip right at the beginning of the video. They didn't even wait a week to make clout of his death. I've stayed far away from them since it felt so gross.

[@LittleMusicBags11037]

Your comment is almost the exact same as Digital Apple's

[@enderkatze6129]

And WatchMojo somehow STILL DOES IT BETTER

[@yuieatingaburger]

bot comment

[@pimkinn]

the thumbnails are 100% ripoffs of karsten runquist, shows how soulless and unoriginal these videos are

[@TheJinx64]

not like the original thumbnails are any better 😭

[@AFishInPajamas]

​​@@TheJinx64 At least they have uhh... hmm... 30% more variety to them. I sometimes see the images under the text instead of beside, more varying font styles per thumbnails, less (but not zero) buzzword clauses... yeah. The thumbnail game is still pretty cheap, but I suppose he gets to say that he jumpstarted the concept. I do wonder how he'd react to the videos analyzing this matter.

[@hadif_]

@@AFishInPajamasAt least he changed a bit like his cannes vid. But that’s all… and he already did talked about it on his second channel kzbin.info/www/bejne/h32mm2ijoreLY9ksi=d6WQ9neYhQe1UFH7

[@IronFreakV]

And KZbin absolutely loves it

[@doublecsquared]

it truly is the worst thumbnail ever

[@blabbilizer]

i recognize you

[@Squifflifting]

I truly hate it

[@EIGHT8sawEA]

bfdi ranked guy hi bye liy

[@doubleznixz]

While they are bad thumbnails. It does help small channels with good intentions to grow because it’s so simple to make and not so flashy like many thumbnails these days which are bad too.

[@ProfoundKrab]

Those thumbnails be like "The worst thing Glup Shitto has ever done"

[@aeon87]

AI content farm: *exists* Mark: whoa. Ass ahoy.

[@dimwarlock]

You say it as if AI content farms were something normal and natural in the world that just happened to exist and Mark just randomly reacted to.

[@Fatih_M177]

"Say KZbin, it's a barely disguised fétish video yet it's on KZbin kids and not age restricted, what's the occasion?"

[@DrSpaceman42]

@@dimwarlock no he didn't

[@WeedleWill]

Mark listening to his own videos at the gym is such a Mark thing💀

[@Cup1dzzz]

took self love to a whole new level 😭😭

[@poppip10]

i do this with my own music lol i know how it feels

[@MagentaNimbat]

Yesss 6:53 I’m glad someone is mention the moving the image around thing sooooo many KZbinrs doing. It’s such a annoying thing that to me is a distraction that I decide to just put the video in the background because of how annoying it is

[@ProfoundKrab]

Monty Python did it better

[@blabbilizer]

I deadass forgot autoplay was a thing until you mentioned it

[@user-gp5yz5yz4x]

Sometimes i watch a video essay in the background while I'm playing vyda games and then this bullshit starts playing lol

[@IdiotRace]

I dunno why but autoplay used to turn on randomly for me every so often, although that hasn't happened for a long time now.

[@kogamustard7717]

It only exists to play ads..

[@DrSpaceman42]

Turned it off years ago haha

[@eightcoins4401]

If you use the app it sometimes turns on autoplay again

[@thelonleygengar]

Its insane how they can give stewie 10 worst things but eric only has 6

[@TheDigitalApple]

These channels that go “Homer Simpsons worst moments” are just the 2020 brain rot version of what channels like Watchmojo has been doing since 2009!

[@dominokitty198]

Exactly, I have 0 clue as to how they still have ideas.

[@ScooterCat64]

@@dominokitty198 Just recycle old ideas after 1 month. No one will remember watching one of these videos 1 day after seeing it anyway

[@sonicwave779]

I will shamelessly admit I ate those up when I was a kid.

[@TweakingFox]

Fuck you have a point

[@wishbonefan]

I forgot about Watchmojo lol

[@rhapsodyshadow_]

6:43 I am inclined to believe that the channel ended up getting hacked. AI bots tend to use dormant/inactive channels as channel farms to host their slop content.

[@adamusprime403]

There's been multiple epidemics of old KZbin channels getting hacked into, and used to farm content, likes, etc

[@PigPigGamer]

I stumbled across the Sweaty Clam channel a few weeks ago and I could tell something was off about the videos. The even weirder thing was the fact that the channel was made way back in 2007, so what was this channel originally?

[@doublecsquared]

probably a channel made with an old Google account, mine was made in 2012 but I didn't start uploading till 2017

[@Paxtonziggy9]

They probably sold their channel for money.

[@athf]

Hijacked aged channels make them seem more legit u can get 1 for like 5 bucks

[@LinnyUwU]

​@@Paxtonziggy9 what do you mean

[@fukhyu3330]

@@LinnyUwUit’s obvious???

[@BinglesP]

I genuinely can't stand it when KZbin channels make EVERYTHING move, by throttling, panning and zooming every single element on screen for every second of the video. It's a tactic TheRichest and it's dozens of side-channels use, some even using it as early as 2016 or even earlier. Bonus infuriating points if they use GIFs they found on Google Images as 'reactions' for the narrator.

[@oshkeet]

I like to think this was originally just a way to avoid inane copyright flagging before it started becomnig a meme for the sake of doing it.

[@petrikhorr]

SAMEE someone else finally says it dude fuck this editing style man

[@Joshi_ForReal]

Honestly, we should all just put our video's thumbnails to the American dad Bababooey clip for a day. Just for the lols

[@Tactic_Zombies]

It’s very disheartening to see low effort content farm channels like that blowing up, especially as a small KZbinr. But the way I see it is that it’s far more valuable to have a smaller audience that likes YOU and your style and personality, then it is to have a bunch of views on videos that are indistinguishable from the next channel over.

[@delededendboyyt]

The tumbnails are probably based on karsten runquist's spongebob's theories with the white background, caracters in the corner and bold text. But those video's are made by someone who actualy put in some time

[@NATURALHARMONIAGROPIUSSPRITE]

I’m surprised he didn’t bring it up tbh

[@mooseyoung3281]

ngl i hate those thumbnails too

[@NATURALHARMONIAGROPIUSSPRITE]

@@mooseyoung3281 same I don’t even watch those videos either

[@alejandrokudo5463]

5:34 Considering how easy it is to make them, I honestly don’t respect their so-called hustle neither

[@qwertyman506]

LS Mark said "delve"; therefore, this video is AI-generated

[@luckyclovergd]

2:25

[@captaincrunch6413]

It’s not just cartoons but like people making videos on “exposing” celebrities or content creators or their “downfall” in like a SunnyV2 fashion but like with the camera all shaking kinda like this format too and the more you look into them the MORE channels you find and they’re all the same

[@MontySlython]

Internet anarchist and sunnyv2 have done irreparable harm to youtube, their videos while well polished and narrated have only the bare minimum of research done and provide no new information or just repeat misinfo about why the downfall of these people happened anyways.

[@ShadowmanDan]

@@MontySlython but I can’t stop watching them 😭😭😭😭

[@sitkinator]

1:33 Holy shit Vinesauce Joel jumpscare! (I know it's not Mark's actual KZbin feed, I just like joey)

[@ProfoundKrab]

Fleentstones?!?!

[@CydonianSky]

Paradise on E (REMIX) uploaded by Xmilla?!

[@Fatih_M177]

​@@ProfoundKrab Grandma?! JETSONS?!!

[@mooseyoung3281]

OY OY OY

[@SuperWiiBros08]

I knew I wasn't the only one noticing this

[@Goinmach8]

seriously how do people not realize how stupid these thumbnails look

[@allendepacheco3419]

As Mark stated before, they don't care. It's likely many just play the video in the background and do something else like drawing, gaming, exercise, and menial labor that they don't have a second thought of what they're actually watching (because they're not watching it in the first place).

[@thedragonofdalzell]

They are just using the character image to draw in the clicks from curious Family guy, Simpsons, American Dad, South Park, etc fans that are just looking for something to watch during their downtime/bored moments of the day It's no different than the bright colorful thumbnails used by Roblox channels and the (insert name)family channels that draw in kids to get thousands of views a day

[@Hysteriette]

why do i always see ice spice? "ITS OVER FOR ICE SPICE..." like ok

[@mooseyoung3281]

@@Hysteriette she could release ANOTHER song about bodily waste and make a million in the first day at least

[@UnwantedGhost1-anz25]

I could have sworn that KZbinr Emperor Lemon pointed out this problem out several years ago.

[@The1SunshineFeeler]

When a KZbin video starts with giant moving subtitles on screen treating me like I’m deaf I turn it off. That’s the most annoying part of these kind of videos to me.

[@Change51]

Can you feel the sunshine?

[@mrlaz9011]

what's the best sunshine you ever felt? do you have a top 10?

[@mr.whimsic6902]

Finally, someone said it, especially when it's not in a short format, so they have no reason not to use youtube's own subtitle system

yeah the mr beast style, it's so annoying

[@Toenail_VR]

That's exactly what the damn captions are for, for my deaf homies out there.

[@AccursedHawk]

Literally every MMA channel I follow uses these exact types of thumbnail

[@jujuthethird4602]

Tjlovesfights😭

[@nostalgiamostalgia0319]

TBH, I was literally thinking of this exact problem! Thank you for addressing it!

[@shadow759]

8:55 that is such a mood.

[@Huhー_ー]

MF DOOM reference? ?ecnerefer MOOD FM

[@ManOfTheHour34564]

Thumbnail is super accurate

[@sitkinator]

Karsten Runquist feeling like Oppenheimer watching these content farms take the wrong lesson from his thumbnails.

[@malcolmali915]

I mean.... They are really easy to make

[@adamshafeeq8685]

​@@malcolmali915 sounds like an excuse to be lazy.

[@adamshafeeq8685]

​@@sitkinator never heard of him and i already hate him

[@kaiturner5011]

I unfortunately watched some of those videos, and I somehow never realized they were different channels. So glad to see someone at least acknowledge how dumb they are.

[@PrincessDaisyClaire]

Same

[@HordikaNate3821]

New KZbin infinite money glitch just dropped

[@JRAnimationStudios]

I find it hilarious how Mark listens to his own videos as workout motivation

[@ImmaLittlePip]

Remmeber when people hated watchmojo for being bland and robotic and for being a content farm God watchmojo has way more effort than these modern ai slop now days

[@NoReplyAsset]

weren't you a homophobe

[@NomarOmens]

I've heard less people talk about KZbin as a hobby and more people talk about it as a way to make good passive income. Which makes sense, I guess. I dunno. I just like watching people who care about what they have to say, and I know that if a person cares about what they're talking about they're not brainrot. Probably. Again idk.. just a very... Normal thing to happen with something like KZbin.

[@HK47_115]

As Somebody's been trying to do KZbin for 3 plus years now as a hobby but getting nowhere, every now and then I get people mocking me for doing it as a hobby to begin with. People nowadays are stupid. Don't understand that most of their favorite content creators literally started off by doing this as a hobby.

[@mariomaker69420]

idk if someone’s gonna find this, but it all started with the spongehenge theory video. that’s why the thumbnails look similar: they’re all trying to copy that one video

[@michaelkindt3288]

@1:12-. I think you're giving chat GPT and AIs in general too much credit. You would have noticed all of the random, inconsistent inaccuracies. Okay, those would also exist in human written script, but there would be nay-guaranteed in AI written script.

[@lucasw1348]

No fucking way

[@weathermansam2]

Read this in response to “so I was at the gym recently”

[@lucasw1348]

@@weathermansam2 the moment I saw a scream with bri’s face, i wrote this comment at the speed of light.

[@changingpeopleslivesmoon2993]

Yes way

[@ej_makesvideos]

3:49 what was it for

[@THEJEATING]

it was hurricane helene

[@my_ass_is_burning_2]

Why the hell were you the only one to make this comment

[@UltraPaperGamer]

HOLY SHIT, I saw one of those videos thinking it was just mediocre, I never realise they were AI Generated, what the fuck?!!!

[@thetophatguyandroid5959]

I watched ONE KZbin short of gravity falls because of nostalgia and now my whole KZbin shorts section is just badly cropped gravity falls clips and 5% random videos from kids who don't know how to use their phone Edit: I'm literally pressing the "not interested/irrelevant" button and it always does nothing

[@Ex0t1cButt_ers]

Delete the original video. The recommendations should go away

[@BoldBrandFlakes]

4:27 thank you for calling this out. It’s hard to find a True Crime video that’s not just an AI voice over

[@dangerguy32]

"Is it worth it?" Their paid bills: yep

[@abanana]

plain thumbnails are boring

[@henrym4484]

3:49 that spooked me lol

[@LittleSpinas]

Is it for earthquakes? I'm not from USA

[@henrym4484]

@@LittleSpinasThere sometimes used for Amber Alerts or even weather warnings/reports like if a rainstorm might caused a flood

[@thatonechannelnobodyaskedfor]

@@LittleSpinastornadoes, floods. Destructive storms, dust storms, hurricanes, blizzards. Snowstorms, high winds, earthquakes kidnappings and local emergencies

[@THEJEATING]

that alert was hurricane Helene

[@thatonechannelnobodyaskedfor]

@@THEJEATING wait how did i not realize that 😭

[@liamphibia]

Oh... You had me at another Chris Griffin video.

[@DeadMagZ]

Anytime i think my content is shit or think that i didn't put enough effort into making a video, i just remember that there's some goober out there using an ai to make their videos for them and i instantly feel better about myself.

[@Mobius14]

You have to delete them from your KZbin watch history. KZbin uses your watch history as part of calculating your recommended(s).

[@Kate_Hanami]

at every single second I was expecting him to say "who would do such most boring dribble like talking about pointless overviews of a single episode" in such an overly sarcastic manner that deadpool would blush

[@MxCartney_Lou]

KZbin is becoming so terrible…..like I miss 2010s KZbin

[@FluffinWasntHere]

Meanwhile 2010 youtube has WatchMojo

[@misscalicogirl]

@@FluffinWasntHere im gonna be honest, i'll take watchmojo over this bullshit. at least that was before the rise of AI, so there was SOME effort put into those videos. they put effort into stealing. this is just 0 effort content which is more infuriating because hundreds of people try to emulate it at the same time.

[@cartoonboy6039]

I feel you bro. I miss 2010s KZbin so much. It used to be about the creators who made the site amazing but now it’s all business and stupid AI channels that are soulless.

[@Perrcoco]

There are still great videos that come out recently, you are literally commenting under one right now.

[@thisismyname603]

Cry loser 😂

[@JTDDemon]

3:31 ad ends

[@luixgaete7]

LSMark is the only subject capable of making an entire video to an issue that you could simply fix by disabling the autoplay option. A great guy and my respects.

[@mayayamato7351]

man im so glad i've been on here for a decade and have a subscription box full of real life human beings who actually write and perform their own stuff or do livestreams that theres very little chance for this slop to slip in.

[@lexsombersunrise]

I'm honestly really glad you do care, I feel like this problem is going to get worse because KZbin won't do anything about it. Why would they? It's giving them views...it's so depressing

[@genemelendez368]

These videos feel like someone took WatchMojo and thought “how can I optimize this content farm even more?”

[@SeannyChong]

Man this video kinda shows how painfully unaware you are of the content you make and the corner of the KZbin space you find yourself in

[@maskofthedragon]

>Presents itself as a video essay >Plot summary What's the difference?

[@SleepyLuigi]

I *HATE* those… btw at 1:37 you can see MagicMush is canon to LS Mark.

[@complex2live]

7:36 anyonr else watch Mark this exact same way?

[@NeonBeeCat]

I had this in the background while looking for old DVDs

[@MustyYew]

Find anything good?

[@katlicks]

7:20 I wonder if these are poached/phished channels. The weird family guy/simpson compilation uploads were often Eastern Euro/South East Asian or Middle Eastern channels that were either bought or phished and just had content dumped on it. A lot of them (Aside from the Clam guy who I think just started it) seem to have the same patterns as that phenomena

[@thesmg201show]

1:34 I feel the same way mark

[@jimhails]

that emergency broadcast sound actually scared tf outta me.

[@CacklingPumpkins]

It's hard to find passionate creators any more and these content farm videos are just making it harder. And even though I probably have no right to be I am already pretty picky on the kind of content I want to watch and support. (Sorry to say I'm not a big fan of Ice Berg videos or content made in bad faith) and my interests are already pretty niche to begin with. It really just feels like passion is dead on here minus the few gems.

[@2skrub2furious]

3:49 had me sweating 😭

[@DatDogBoi]

9:22 bill cipher???

[@Dergy]

Why does every video need those mr beast-lookin captions nowadays 😭

[@Fatih_M177]

On thing i wanna say, i really like your thumbnails a lot. I think it's a cool way to show off your art skills and it's a great way to visually represent what the video is about, giving viewers a interesting glimpse of the current topic. BUT THEY'RE CLICKBAIT! You put Brain griffin in every single one EVEN THO HE'S NOT IN THE VIDEO!!!!! I'm so MAD!

[@tristandurr6371]

Thank you for also making a video about this! I saw the one another youtuber posted and it wasnt getting mcuh traction :c So glad more people are making videos about this issue so people can be more aware

[@godzillapark9075]

1:27 "But I only watched "Will And Grace" one time one day Wish I hadn't 'cause TiVo now thinks I'm gay" -Werid Al Yankovic

[@luffytard7512]

"if the slop is good enough, the pigs will eat!" - that one camera guy from Yu-Gi-Oh

[@SirBiscuitman]

I don’t know why, but that thing where some youtubers edit the text to have the captions pop up with only one word at a time gets on my nerves (although if there’s some relatively small, unintrusive captions that cover the full sentence i’m fine)

[@Ri4rproductions]

The fact got he got an emergency alert in middle recording💀

[@slushhhhh]

Thanks for the shout out brother

[@Pèìñsķìðÿ]

GET OUT

[@Hunbun999]

ls mark when he realizes the KZbin not interested button exists

[@ConnerTheWaffle]

This is the kind of stuff my dad watches

[@izzyfunnyz99yt]

i remember i used to watch your stuff years ago

[@AndyToons64]

Holy shit I haven’t seen you in years

[@HeavenlyMercury2800]

As someone who watches Sweaty Clam, I am like 90% sure his scripts aren't AI. His own personality does show through his videos and words. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure Sweaty Clam is a person who simply started this trend on accident. All the other channels with that style appeared AFTER he blew up from what I've seen

[@misscalicogirl]

there is evidence that shows that sweaty clam's channel was hijacked and turned into this AI slop. his channel was created in 2007 and only now started uploading this content. that is 100% content farm evidence. don't support it, please.

[@thedragonofdalzell]

Sweaty Clam is definitely a real person. You can sense they are still trying to find their style and voice in the videos. Heck go back to LS Mark earliest videos and notice Mark's style change from then to now. Now the other channels popping up like dollar generals are definitely just using A.i and copying Clam's simple thumbnail style (which was actually unique when he started)

[@adventureflyz]

I have the same opinion, I’m not a fan of Family Guy but I like his videos. Plus he uses his community tab which makes me think he’s real but idk

[@_Ms.Sakura]

Exactly. I personally really like his videos because I get to watch Family Guy without having to search or spend money to do so and I really do like his jokes/commentary.

[@MontySlython]

@@thedragonofdalzell This is not true, the trend with the thumbnails started with karsten runquist many years before sweaty clam (specifically his spongehenge theory thumbnail because it got millions of views and instantly spawned copycats), it absolutely was not a unique or new style.

[@j_sp1d3r55]

Honestly I found myself watching a couple of Sweaty Clam’s videos because his tone is so stupidly genuine while talking about Family guy plots that I kinda find him funny. That being said he’s like the Philadelphia McDonalds of video essays.

[@AxelServicebot]

I hate those video where you think there's something interesting going to be discussed. Only to found that the video is primarily verbatim retelling of everything that has occurred within that episode. Painfully patting out the runtime in making it painfully obvious that this is algorithm slop.

[@arso0628Stuff]

The New Terrifying KZbin *metaVERSE*

[@rattlethatanimation]

Id make fun of you for watching your own videos at the gym but Im guilty of watching my own animations over and over 💀

[@Anamonator]

KZbin is not cooking this year

[@TechyTech._.]

well guess who just got recommended 2 of these videos in the sidebar

[@FourEyeFreak]

Good thing I know how to have a personality and take months to write a script so I don’t sound soulless.

[@TrulyAtrocious]

The AI bros really gave themselves the easiest way to identify and block

[@britanimations2002]

Last time when you talked about AI Farm Content I kept getting that content recommended to me despite never looking one up in my life. If the same happens here I may just have to deleted KZbin and go into hiding

[@kale9090]

its happening to me, getting a lot of those cartoon png with white background videos now

[@v3n0msp4rk]

good thing i only ever use the subscriptions tab instead of the home tab

[@FrazzleFox1901]

7:58 I'm now going to subscribe to Midnight Mark for you. I'm your new subscriber

[@kylespevak6781]

To be fair, that's how most video essays and top 10 lists. For some reason they give us a Wikipedia article first

[@sgtguy1]

I think it's funny you got a factor sponsor because they use the same style as the thumbnails

[@brainthebrian3690]

I had a moment where I was sitting already bored and irritated from sickness and watching youtube to clear my head, and it was one of these cartoon videos with the white thumbnail and when i got done I look at recommended and see four other *channels* with the same kind of thumbnail and video theme. That legit broke me and made me stop watching youtube for a solid week and a half.

[@ChannelsName]

6:02 ah yes, "lowk"

[@hiagustres]

The bad thing is that there are a ton of passionate creators, with original ideas that put effort but stay in youtube limbo, not being recommended

[@WhyHandlesIMeanFroggchamp]

The thing is a guy named made2express had this thumbnail style and I really liked his channel but now everyone stole his flow so every time I think I'm gonna watch one of his videos I get hit with KZbin slop and I feel sad inside

[@avastoyboxandarcade]

Im glad more people are talking about these. Theres a bunch of channels that do spongebob with the exact thumbnail and editing i thought it was so weird.

[@maxresdefault_]

These videos are why the KZbin Copyright system is so terrible