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!
Was literally just talking to another TH-camr 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.
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
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.
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
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 TH-cam videos people made doing "the worst/best things" lists over 6 years ago.
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 TH-cam has become.
@@StarkMaximum "Don't recommend this channel because I hate the subject it focuses on." TH-cam: Okay, how about a different channel focused on the same subject?
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.
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 TH-cam Shorts slop I've never clicked off a video faster than that one
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.
@@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.
@@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 th-cam.com/video/QLCj5mmRX-w/w-d-xo.htmlsi=d6WQ9neYhQe1UFH7
Now watch them make a video called "top 10 TH-cam 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.
Yesss 6:53 I’m glad someone is mention the moving the image around thing sooooo many TH-camrs 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
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
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.
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?
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
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.
It’s very disheartening to see low effort content farm channels like that blowing up, especially as a small TH-camr. 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.
When a TH-cam 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.
@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.
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).
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
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.
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
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
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.
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)
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.
@@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.
I genuinely can't stand it when TH-cam 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.
I've heard less people talk about TH-cam 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 TH-cam.
Somebody's been trying to do TH-cam for 3 plus years now as a hobby but getting nowhere, every now and then I get people calling 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.
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
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.
I'm honestly really glad you do care, I feel like this problem is going to get worse because TH-cam won't do anything about it. Why would they? It's giving them views...it's so depressing
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
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.
yeah i agree with you mark, those thumbnails are annoying. like most of those videos just has lazy thumbnails, and the videos are even worse with the most unoriginal ideas ever, like come on YOU COULD DO BETTER THAN THAT
I watched ONE TH-cam short of gravity falls because of nostalgia and now my whole TH-cam 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
@@CutmanDrawz 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.
I feel you bro. I miss 2010s TH-cam 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.
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 TH-cam and go into hiding
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)
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!
9:50 Mark i literally love your channel, but it’s the same exact thing, we watch your videos for the cool content, you make em for money and notoriety, that’s the internet
also no i don’t think those channels that are faceless and low effort/AI care if people actually like their stuff, it’s for money, takes 30 minutes to make one of those videos or 5 minutes to outsource one, it’s for money, i doubt they care fr, just looking at Sweaty Clams, he’d made like $5k+
Yeah, but he actually puts effort into his content and it’s actually good. Besides, he already said that the creators of those channels probably don’t care.
I also want to point out that for content creators who have been around for a long time, and recently so too I might add, that for me it's been a major factor as to why I've been demotivated to make content. I want to briefly talk about my experience. I'm in a weather documentary niche (I'm a meteorology major so it's in a field that I am studying in), and one of these random AI Content farms that does nothing but reupload stolen footage in hour long compilations, adds the Wikipedia intro article at the beginning and calls it a documentary. (In fact the descriptions are 1:1 from Wikipedia, they forgot to remove a citation number in one of the descriptions they made). One of the videos they made got double the views that I had gotten on an event I had covered in half the time. I'm not an expert at making my own videos stand out, the way that I format thumbnails and titles are based on how I did it once, it just so happened to work, and I kept that style. That channel ended up stealing the EXACT same thumbnail format and used it for their own channel. Not to mention there is a high likelihood that the channel in question is plagiarizing other channels, I wouldn't be surprised if some of these AI Channels in the video essay niche are doing the same. I go to the comments section and see the same few exact channels commenting over and over again, I genuinely think that some of the channels are being comment and view-botted, and most of them, are the same guy (mainly because the business email is the exact same). Seeing someone who abuses an algorithm for money and practically gives the finger to people who have a genuine passion for video creation just crushes my soul. I've never had the thought of going the AI Content farm route though, there's a piece of my mind that will not bend to caving to the algorithm full time, because then the job of content creation stops being fun, for me at least. The only way this is getting resolved is gonna involve some sort of ban on the kind of obvious AI content, or maybe with content being flagged as having AI in them, some setting in TH-cam's algorithm that acts as a way to prevent videos from blowing up (Something like how a video getting age restricted pretty much ruins the chances of that video being bigger than your audience). I would love that to happen, but I know that is never going to happen as much as I think it should. The only reason as to why I cannot quit doing what I do is because, as a college student, what I earn from ad revenue alone is higher than any part time jobs around me are willing to pay, and given that college is expensive, I just gotta take a deep breath and keep going forward. Still doesn't mean that I feel disheartened when I see one of these AI content farms infiltrate my recommended, it definitely takes a toll on honest creators who are just now getting bigger.
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.
I've noticed that since light has been brought to this, those ai farm channels have been changing their thumbnails to look like they "put in effort" Maybe it's just a coincidence... a very very convenient coincidence..
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.
a beloved youtuber to me recently started doing this, harryfromends, who has made AMAZING content beforehand, shouting out small creators like nigel and marmalade, talking about niche adult swim shows like big lez and joe pera, good editting, he made a fucking song for xavier renegade angel, this is not slop, how did it devolve so quickly into slop???
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
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 TH-cam slop and I feel sad inside
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.
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.
Can't wait for this to go full circle & these AI channels start doing TH-cam videos. "LSMark's Most Epic Owns Ever" & it's just your videos being narrated over.
It's worrying for the future of recapping things not only because the market is becoming saturated but also I wonder if this will make TH-cam clamp down even harder on copyright flagging, which as guys like you and me know is already a complete nightmare
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.
Can you make a update video to ranking every (blank) episode ever after it releases 5 to 7 new seasons (if the show is still airing) and make a video where you rank every bob's burger episode and one where you rank every Futurama episode please.
Same thing happened with the creepypasta reading. Few years back they were everywhere and doing massive numbers. Now the only remaining ones get less then 100k views
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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!
Was literally just talking to another TH-camr 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.
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.
Whatever it takes for internet money
Where do I apply
Is it Ceric Artman?
Exposing the "The times peter griffin was a hero in family guy" RABBIT HOLE!!.. SHE WAS 12.
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
rt60?
@@radiomanhans wasnt expecting him to be here as well hahahah
As a 2010s kid, I watched Watchmojo 1.0. That’s just how it is.
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.
Lmao I JUST started outlining a video about these, glad other people are talking about it
Hi Johnny
Same, it wouldn't rip out your intestines to just be original
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
Still make the video, more awareness is good
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 TH-cam videos people made doing "the worst/best things" lists over 6 years ago.
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 TH-cam has become.
Me: Don't recommend this channel.
TH-cam the next day: Now listen, I _know_ you said...
@@StarkMaximum "Don't recommend this channel because I hate the subject it focuses on."
TH-cam: Okay, how about a different channel focused on the same subject?
As useful as the dislike button on comments
It works once you do this enough times. You’d mark a few dozen channels before that though.
I usually delete videos I'm not interested in from my watch history. Mostly works.
it truly is the worst thumbnail ever
i recognize you
I truly hate it
bfdi ranked guy hi bye liy
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.
Those thumbnails be like "The worst thing Glup Shitto has ever done"
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 TH-cam Shorts slop
I've never clicked off a video faster than that one
Loser 😂
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.
It’s bc it looks like a Karsten Runquist style video
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
You fool
The white background...IS BRIAN!
he is just too big
i can still see both versions lol
I can’t even see Brian 💀
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the thumbnails are 100% ripoffs of karsten runquist, shows how soulless and unoriginal these videos are
not like the original thumbnails are any better 😭
@@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.
@@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 th-cam.com/video/QLCj5mmRX-w/w-d-xo.htmlsi=d6WQ9neYhQe1UFH7
And TH-cam absolutely loves it
These content farms are literally what WatchMojo have been doing since 2009!
Yes I blame them for starting this also don’t forget screen rant they call everything reference or Easter egg
Now watch them make a video called "top 10 TH-cam 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.
Your comment is almost the exact same as Digital Apple's
And WatchMojo somehow STILL DOES IT BETTER
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Yesss 6:53 I’m glad someone is mention the moving the image around thing sooooo many TH-camrs 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
Monty Python did it better
I deadass forgot autoplay was a thing until you mentioned it
Sometimes i watch a video essay in the background while I'm playing vyda games and then this bullshit starts playing lol
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.
It only exists to play ads..
Turned it off years ago haha
If you use the app it sometimes turns on autoplay again
AI content farm: *exists*
Mark: whoa. Ass ahoy.
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.
"Say TH-cam, it's a barely disguised fétish video yet it's on TH-cam kids and not age restricted, what's the occasion?"
@@dimwarlock no he didn't
Mark listening to his own videos at the gym is such a Mark thing💀
took self love to a whole new level 😭😭
i do this with my own music lol i know how it feels
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
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.
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?
probably a channel made with an old Google account, mine was made in 2012 but I didn't start uploading till 2017
They probably sold their channel for money.
Hijacked aged channels make them seem more legit u can get 1 for like 5 bucks
@@Paxtonziggy9 what do you mean
@@LinnyUwUit’s obvious???
5:34 Considering how easy it is to make them, I honestly don’t respect their so-called hustle neither
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!
Exactly, I have 0 clue as to how they still have ideas.
@@dominokitty198 Just recycle old ideas after 1 month. No one will remember watching one of these videos 1 day after seeing it anyway
I will shamelessly admit I ate those up when I was a kid.
Fuck you have a point
I forgot about Watchmojo lol
Its insane how they can give stewie 10 worst things but eric only has 6
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
I’m surprised he didn’t bring it up tbh
ngl i hate those thumbnails too
@@mooseyoung3281 same I don’t even watch those videos either
8:55 that is such a mood.
MF DOOM reference?
?ecnerefer MOOD FM
Honestly, we should all just put our video's thumbnails to the American dad Bababooey clip for a day. Just for the lols
Literally every MMA channel I follow uses these exact types of thumbnail
Tjlovesfights😭
Why is the Eric one like a “MrBeast is DONE” thumbnail?
Eric Cartman is DONE
It's over.....
"Glup Shitto is canceled?!" ahh thumbnail
@@PunishedKrab Real
@@PunishedKrab vining sauce
I could have sworn that TH-camr Emperor Lemon pointed out this problem out several years ago.
1:33 Holy shit Vinesauce Joel jumpscare!
(I know it's not Mark's actual TH-cam feed, I just like joey)
Fleentstones?!?!
Paradise on E (REMIX) uploaded by Xmilla?!
@@PunishedKrab Grandma?! JETSONS?!!
OY OY OY
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.
Same
LS Mark said "delve"; therefore, this video is AI-generated
2:25
It’s very disheartening to see low effort content farm channels like that blowing up, especially as a small TH-camr. 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.
TBH, I was literally thinking of this exact problem!
Thank you for addressing it!
I knew I wasn't the only one noticing this
When a TH-cam 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.
Can you feel the sunshine?
what's the best sunshine you ever felt? do you have a top 10?
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
That's exactly what the damn captions are for, for my deaf homies out there.
@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.
seriously how do people not realize how stupid these thumbnails look
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).
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
why do i always see ice spice? "ITS OVER FOR ICE SPICE..." like ok
@@Hysteriette she could release ANOTHER song about bodily waste and make a million in the first day at least
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.
There's been multiple epidemics of old TH-cam channels getting hacked into, and used to farm content, likes, etc
Thumbnail is super accurate
Karsten Runquist feeling like Oppenheimer watching these content farms take the wrong lesson from his thumbnails.
I mean.... They are really easy to make
@@malcolmali915 sounds like an excuse to be lazy.
@@sitkinator never heard of him and i already hate him
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
No fucking way
Read this in response to “so I was at the gym recently”
@@weathermansam2 the moment I saw a scream with bri’s face, i wrote this comment at the speed of light.
Yes way
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
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.
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)
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
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.
@@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.
HOLY SHIT, I saw one of those videos thinking it was just mediocre, I never realise they were AI Generated, what the fuck?!!!
I genuinely can't stand it when TH-cam 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.
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.
I've heard less people talk about TH-cam 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 TH-cam.
Somebody's been trying to do TH-cam for 3 plus years now as a hobby but getting nowhere, every now and then I get people calling 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.
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
New TH-cam infinite money glitch just dropped
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.
3:49 that spooked me lol
Is it for earthquakes?
I'm not from USA
@@LittleSpinasThere sometimes used for Amber Alerts or even weather warnings/reports like if a rainstorm might caused a flood
@@LittleSpinastornadoes, floods. Destructive storms, dust storms, hurricanes, blizzards. Snowstorms, high winds, earthquakes kidnappings and local emergencies
I'm honestly really glad you do care, I feel like this problem is going to get worse because TH-cam won't do anything about it. Why would they? It's giving them views...it's so depressing
1:34 I feel the same way mark
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
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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.
Oh... You had me at another Chris Griffin video.
yeah i agree with you mark, those thumbnails are annoying.
like most of those videos just has lazy thumbnails, and the videos are even worse with the most unoriginal ideas ever, like come on YOU COULD DO BETTER THAN THAT
plain thumbnails are boring
I find it hilarious how Mark listens to his own videos as workout motivation
You have to delete them from your TH-cam watch history. TH-cam uses your watch history as part of calculating your recommended(s).
I watched ONE TH-cam short of gravity falls because of nostalgia and now my whole TH-cam 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
Delete the original video. The recommendations should go away
TH-cam is becoming so terrible…..like I miss 2010s TH-cam
Meanwhile 2010 youtube has WatchMojo
@@CutmanDrawz 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.
I feel you bro. I miss 2010s TH-cam 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.
There are still great videos that come out recently, you are literally commenting under one right now.
Cry loser 😂
The world of TH-cam Automation is actually horrible
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
Thanks for the shout out brother
GET OUT
7:36 anyonr else watch Mark this exact same way?
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 TH-cam and go into hiding
its happening to me, getting a lot of those cartoon png with white background videos now
7:58 I'm now going to subscribe to Midnight Mark for you. I'm your new subscriber
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)
I had this in the background while looking for old DVDs
Find anything good?
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!
9:50 Mark i literally love your channel, but it’s the same exact thing, we watch your videos for the cool content, you make em for money and notoriety, that’s the internet
also no i don’t think those channels that are faceless and low effort/AI care if people actually like their stuff, it’s for money, takes 30 minutes to make one of those videos or 5 minutes to outsource one, it’s for money, i doubt they care fr, just looking at Sweaty Clams, he’d made like $5k+
Yeah, but he actually puts effort into his content and it’s actually good. Besides, he already said that the creators of those channels probably don’t care.
@@westinian3144thank you my guy
I also want to point out that for content creators who have been around for a long time, and recently so too I might add, that for me it's been a major factor as to why I've been demotivated to make content. I want to briefly talk about my experience.
I'm in a weather documentary niche (I'm a meteorology major so it's in a field that I am studying in), and one of these random AI Content farms that does nothing but reupload stolen footage in hour long compilations, adds the Wikipedia intro article at the beginning and calls it a documentary. (In fact the descriptions are 1:1 from Wikipedia, they forgot to remove a citation number in one of the descriptions they made). One of the videos they made got double the views that I had gotten on an event I had covered in half the time.
I'm not an expert at making my own videos stand out, the way that I format thumbnails and titles are based on how I did it once, it just so happened to work, and I kept that style. That channel ended up stealing the EXACT same thumbnail format and used it for their own channel. Not to mention there is a high likelihood that the channel in question is plagiarizing other channels, I wouldn't be surprised if some of these AI Channels in the video essay niche are doing the same. I go to the comments section and see the same few exact channels commenting over and over again, I genuinely think that some of the channels are being comment and view-botted, and most of them, are the same guy (mainly because the business email is the exact same).
Seeing someone who abuses an algorithm for money and practically gives the finger to people who have a genuine passion for video creation just crushes my soul. I've never had the thought of going the AI Content farm route though, there's a piece of my mind that will not bend to caving to the algorithm full time, because then the job of content creation stops being fun, for me at least.
The only way this is getting resolved is gonna involve some sort of ban on the kind of obvious AI content, or maybe with content being flagged as having AI in them, some setting in TH-cam's algorithm that acts as a way to prevent videos from blowing up (Something like how a video getting age restricted pretty much ruins the chances of that video being bigger than your audience). I would love that to happen, but I know that is never going to happen as much as I think it should.
The only reason as to why I cannot quit doing what I do is because, as a college student, what I earn from ad revenue alone is higher than any part time jobs around me are willing to pay, and given that college is expensive, I just gotta take a deep breath and keep going forward.
Still doesn't mean that I feel disheartened when I see one of these AI content farms infiltrate my recommended, it definitely takes a toll on honest creators who are just now getting bigger.
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.
I've noticed that since light has been brought to this, those ai farm channels have been changing their thumbnails to look like they "put in effort"
Maybe it's just a coincidence... a very very convenient coincidence..
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.
a beloved youtuber to me recently started doing this, harryfromends, who has made AMAZING content beforehand, shouting out small creators like nigel and marmalade, talking about niche adult swim shows like big lez and joe pera, good editting, he made a fucking song for xavier renegade angel, this is not slop, how did it devolve so quickly into slop???
9:22 bill cipher???
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
Man this video kinda shows how painfully unaware you are of the content you make and the corner of the TH-cam space you find yourself in
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 TH-cam slop and I feel sad inside
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
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.
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.
Can't wait for this to go full circle & these AI channels start doing TH-cam videos.
"LSMark's Most Epic Owns Ever" & it's just your videos being narrated over.
I think it's funny you got a factor sponsor because they use the same style as the thumbnails
I'm glad ur speaking about this issues but I think auto play giving u a content farm says more about the type of content you watch
Why does every video need those mr beast-lookin captions nowadays 😭
"if the slop is good enough, the pigs will eat!" - that one camera guy from Yu-Gi-Oh
The New Terrifying TH-cam *metaVERSE*
It's worrying for the future of recapping things not only because the market is becoming saturated but also I wonder if this will make TH-cam clamp down even harder on copyright flagging, which as guys like you and me know is already a complete nightmare
This is the kind of stuff my dad watches
i remember i used to watch your stuff years ago
Holy shit I haven’t seen you in years
that emergency broadcast sound actually scared tf outta me.
6:02 ah yes, "lowk"
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.
oh my god...
>Presents itself as a video essay
>Plot summary
What's the difference?
Good thing I know how to have a personality and take months to write a script so I don’t sound soulless.
Can you make a update video to ranking every (blank) episode ever after it releases 5 to 7 new seasons (if the show is still airing) and make a video where you rank every bob's burger episode and one where you rank every Futurama episode please.
LS MARK THAT THUMBNAIL IS AMAZING I WOULD WATCH IT ALL DAY ITS EVEN BETTER THAN CATCHING UP
bro this keeps happening to me too
Something tells me this account was bought or hacked 6:39
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@@therealsimpson OMG IS THAT THEREALSIMPSON?!?!?!?! 😱
@therealsimpson ain't no way...... IT IS!!!!
Same thing happened with the creepypasta reading. Few years back they were everywhere and doing massive numbers. Now the only remaining ones get less then 100k views
Bet LS Mark is strong
And big
um... what is this
@@Angrychuckbird456probaly strong to
LS can bench press 350
@@avonire he benches 405 me n him go to the gym every weekend he's very strong