I used to watch How to Cook That, I enjoyed watching a food scientist debunk stupid "cooking hacks". Then after years of normal content she started preaching Bible verses at the end of cooking videos and selling Bibles. Looking into it I find out her husband, who is in the videos a lot, preaches at a church known to be vocally homophobic.
First time I saw that shit was the last time I watched her videos.
When he started buying from Temu, Wish etc (I think for a video making something for his sister) and being completely uncritical, was the breaking point for me.
I followed this channel called "best ever food review show" for years, it was a lot of fun. Then they hosted Joe Rogan on it and I havent looked back. The only power you have as a consumer is to stop consuming 🤷♂️
SandRhoman History is flirting with an unsub for this reason. They used to have charming art with slightly crude animation but now I think they have a mix of human art and AI animation. I like their stuff because they tend to focus on the less sexy stuff like the logistics of medieval armies.
For now they get a pass. The sloppyness doesn't infringe on the content and if Ai can more easily animate heads on period uniforms than the time the rotated 20-odd heads with slightly less period-correct outfits it doesn't impact things for me.
I'm not that visually engaged, though, and loved their simpler content (like bazzbattles, too). If they start skimping ont the research, though, it will draw the line.
I was looking up a video review of some safety glasses (crazy night I know) and one of the videos was entirely AI, which is annoying but is becoming common. I'm sure they didn't even buy them.
But then I saw a video I assumed was AI because the thumbnail was clearly an AI man wearing them. But then the preview showed a real regular person. Brother... you have the fucking glasses and a face and footage of you wearing them.. just use that!
I used to listen to Unexplained Mysteries to fall asleep, and because it was pretty good at covering whatever strange photos/videos were going viral, but it became so clear that they were just plugging a headline into an LLM and using that to stretch it out to 10 minutes that I had to unsub.
It just repeats the same couple statements over and over with slight variation while cycling through a three frame slide show.
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