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YouTube removed 16 AI slop channels totaling 4.7 billion views and 35 million subscribers.
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The 16 channels collectively earned about $10 million annually. YouTube used traditional spam detection to remove the content.
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YouTube has vowed to curb low-quality AI content while rolling out new AI editing and generation tools.
As 2026 begins, Google-owned YouTube has removed more than 4.7 billion views worth of AI slop videos, according to a new report from online video editing platform Kapwing.
In Kapwing’s original report released in November 2025, the company highlighted the top 100 most subscribed AI slop YouTube channels (see image below). Since then, 16 of the top 100 channels have been removed from YouTube, according to the video editing platform’s latest report.
CuentosFacianantes (a channel that makes low-quality Dragon Ball-themed videos, interestingly enough) is the most popular channel with over 5.9 million views and $2.6 million in revenue, tied with Impperiodejesus (Imperiodejesus), the second most subscribed AI slop channel, and finally Super Cat League, which ranks seventh in terms of subscribers, all on YouTube has been permanently deleted or its content has been erased.
All 16 AI slop channels that were removed had over 35 million total subscribers, 4.7 billion lifetime views, and $10 million in annual revenue. Some of the top AI channels on the list have not been removed, but all of their content has been removed from the platform. YouTube is likely using existing spam detection technology to find and remove these AI slop machine channels.
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Removing slop is a welcome move, but new AI features are still coming to YouTube
The AI wave still shows no signs of slowing down.
In early January, YouTube CEO Neil Mohan emphasized the importance of offloading AI on the platform in a lengthy blog post. “To reduce the spread of low-quality AI content, we are actively building on established systems that combat spam and clickbait and have great success in reducing the spread of low-quality, repetitive content,” Mohan wrote.
As far as YouTube’s worst AI slop criminals go, Mohan seems to have lived up to his word, at least to some extent. While this is a positive move on the part of the video hosting platform, YouTube is still going all out when it comes to AI tools. Several new AI features are coming to the video platform, including AI editing, AI generation on short videos, and conversational song conversion. In addition to this, Google remains very focused on Gemini, with the company recently confirming that its AI algorithms will be the basis of Apple’s next upgraded version of Siri.
Kapwing’s full report on YouTube AI efforts can be found here.
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