2 minutes is a long time. 9:27 of this would certainly be considered torture by a civilised court of law.
AI is shit. I report about a dozen videos to YT every day because they're misleading AI slop that nobody wants to watch. YT are on borrowed time. I'm searching for an AI-free alternative almost every day now.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 7 Jan 2026, 16:05,
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Adblock for YT, Untrap, and Sponsorblock mean I don't see 99% of that nonsense.
I tried a couple of AI filter extensions but if anything I saw more AI bullshit than before.
YT's algorithm wants me to watch more similar things, so it regularly pushes exactly the same material plagiarised from humans, but made nonsensical and ultra-repetitive. I see so many of the same boxing and mma compilations because I once watched a popular video that's been copied by hundreds of AI grifters.
I'm seeing a lot of genuine looking fake accounts of real people, full of AI generated fake content detailing events that never happened.
Bizarrely I'm seeing a lot of fake animal 'stories' with visual vomit graphics and a script consisting of the same 3 paragraphs restated with tiny variations, over and over again. I'm seeing a bit of the revenge fantasy stuff that YT insists I need to become radicalised in some moronic way, and the American court procedures and bodycam footage designed to make me hate women and black people, but I block those channels completely even if they're real.
I worry that YT considers this kind of 'engagement' a good and useful thing for them, and that some super-algorithm is slowly turning me into a Manchurian Candidate or something. YT is fucked, almost completely untrustworthy, much like google.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 7 Jan 2026, 18:00,
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Jesus fucking christ
I just got recommended a blackface Dungeons & Dragons video.
It would appear that YT are deliberately showing me a slew of content they know I'll hate.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 7 Jan 2026, 21:13,
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I will take a look at Untrap and Sponsorblock. Ta
I didn't think that Adblock still worked for Youtube.
(, Wed 7 Jan 2026, 21:59, Reply)
> 2 minutes of Stewart Lee's fart noises was award winning comedy
YMMV
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Wed 7 Jan 2026, 17:54,
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The human being Stewart Lee is a professional comedian with years of experience performing for other humans.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 7 Jan 2026, 18:05,
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I hate ai too right?
What i was trying to say is that the repeated gag would be okay if it was done by people, and even then, only for a couple of minutes.
It's disturbing to me that you could imagine I was defending ai slop. I'm going to have to bleach my brain and say 13 Hail Turings
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Thu 8 Jan 2026, 17:02,
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I don't watch YouTube, routinely anyway. If I'm looking for something specific and it's on there, sure, but otherwise nope.
Never imagined I'd find myself at the vanguard of the anti-AI fightback, but here I am, apparently.
(, Wed 7 Jan 2026, 23:07, Reply)
The algorithm possibly identified you as a person who overreacts to AI generated videos
Negative overreaction is still a form of engagement
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Thu 8 Jan 2026, 6:37,
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Hey maybe you underreact to AI slop.
It's possible they might be trying to drive away people who use effective ad blockers. It seems more likely that they're manipulating people with anger in the usual way (to radicalise them for profit).
Whatever their intention, the result is I'm using youtube less and publicly ranting about how shit it is.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Thu 8 Jan 2026, 15:45,
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I simply don't see much AI phlegm on YouTube
Mostly videos from channels I subscribe to. YouTube is simply no longer a great place for falling down rabbit holes. It used to surprise you. Now it’s optimised to keep you watching predictable cone tents.
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Fri 9 Jan 2026, 6:10,
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I'd often let it run whatever suggested video was next, which is how they'd snot-fuck me.
Interestingly or not, since I made this rant the slop ratio reduced to a tiny trickle. I also blocked about 1000 sloppy channels since then, and I've cut my usage down in general... Maybe that's what YT wanted and now it's 'rewarding' me for changing my behaviour. Whatever the case, I resent and distrust youtube completely.
Ultimately I need a less invasive, toxic and abusive alternative to youtube. So far everything I've tried is scammy (crypto, pyramid schemes), gimmicky (AI, AI, AI, ooh a P2P cloud based video distribution platform), or deliberately made to be obscure and disjointed (mostly, I guess, for pirate streaming purposes). The older YT rivals have also turned into an AI snotfest. Archive.org has some good stuff but no bandwidth...
Maybe I should go back to television. Anything good on?
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Fri 9 Jan 2026, 16:37,
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