The AI Wastelands of YouTube Shorts
YouTube shorts has a problem. AI generated garbage is flooding the platform, to the point where new users will mostly see junk content when scrolling through videos. Today, we’re gonna become brainrot scholars and figure out just why this is happening.
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@BRD8888
August 21, 2026 at 12:49 pm
Soon enough, all the long form videos will be generated. Next will be the viewers.
@Johntheguyswhohaveatiktok
August 21, 2026 at 12:49 pm
Sorry but i seem like this video didn't have sound
@betsyfaircloth334
August 21, 2026 at 12:49 pm
I really need to know who do the voices of these channels even belong to &where tlh does the content even come from??
family betrayal stories;daddy’s vengeance;revenge by James;Jax’s revenge domain;Tony’s office revenge;veteran dog tales
If I get any names &or titles wrong I’m totally sry..
@betsyfaircloth334
August 21, 2026 at 12:49 pm
during some of those stories it starts making weird &horrendoys noises..
@betsyfaircloth334
August 21, 2026 at 12:49 pm
AI channels rewrite history;outright lie;make little to no sense at all &can’t do math or tell time &somhow manage to produce thousands of videos including 40+min videos in like less than ii minutes.. during some videos narrators go catatonic after 14hundred &or start doing strange things on their own..
@betsyfaircloth334
August 21, 2026 at 12:49 pm
AI channels totally ruined me..
@Costlee_14m
August 21, 2026 at 12:49 pm
PRO TIP. GO TO YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS TAB ON YOUTUBE SHORTS
@najh1997
August 21, 2026 at 12:49 pm
I believe these kinds of vidoes are aimed toward children who’s attention spans are much shorter and the high stimulation will cause addiction
@Heliocentric
August 21, 2026 at 12:49 pm
How do you know the majority of comments under AI videos aren't just A.I.?
@irrationally.infinite
August 21, 2026 at 12:49 pm
His sentence structure sometimes feel like the structure chatgpt uses .
@immune85
August 21, 2026 at 12:49 pm
I hate when they show the same damn clip over and over, while talking about what's "about to happen". WHYYYYY?!!!!
My favorite channel has started doing it now. 😭
@retrospacenet
August 21, 2026 at 12:49 pm
the most of my addons are solely to make youtube good again. one of the plugins is blocktube which hides the whole shorts stuff from me.
@onigengu7846
August 21, 2026 at 12:49 pm
I think what people like Mr. Farrell McGuire are realizing, is that 95% of people who consume media are so fucking dull, that this is good content to them.
@thecrazeecow1682
August 21, 2026 at 12:49 pm
I absolutely hate the AI reading the Tumblr posts with the Minecraft parkour in the background, usually it’s intentionally the dumbest Tumblr-coded takes that is intentionally stupid for people to comment on how stupid it is
@candycornshrimp
August 21, 2026 at 12:49 pm
A year later and every other short is still some.shitty AI narrated video by the same voice
@RustoChango
August 21, 2026 at 12:49 pm
I'm at around the 16 min mark. I don't think the viewers and commenters on these videos are predominantly human. This is bots making videos for bots to comment and like.
@kupcakez
August 21, 2026 at 12:49 pm
AMEN 🙏❤✨😻
@yugrvnoegiP
August 21, 2026 at 12:49 pm
9:11 if you click the sound and click the arrow to go back to the video, theres a bug on youtube shorts that can give you 2 views even if one person is watching
@uvizachan
August 21, 2026 at 12:49 pm
The average watcher is probably either very young or very elderly. Anywhere between 0-8 and 60-99+ years old. The worst part is they become belligerent whenever you tell them it's slop.
@smartperson1
August 21, 2026 at 12:49 pm
Hello from the future. Today Google made YouTube even worse by further embracing the AI slop for view counts.
@thespamtonner
August 21, 2026 at 12:49 pm
18:13 awww little catt worm ^^ aww^^