YouTube has a serious slop problem.
The platform is flooded with lazy AI-generated footage, from pseudo-educational videos clearly aimed at toddlers and preschoolers to fake movie trailers. It’s become such a wasteland that some channels have started curating their playlists as “AI-free” in an attempt to draw in users fed up with the trend.
And even though YouTube is struggling with its iconic game of Whack-A-Mole, many channels are still struggling. One of the channels, called Joe Reiser WWE, was founded in 2007 and boasts just under 2,000 users, posting tons of videos of up to two hours long discussing the World Wrestling Entertainment industry and all the drama surrounding it.
And not only is it a haphazard mix of real and AI-generated footage interspersed with random clips from the video game WWE 2K, but when you actually hear the accompanying robot narration, some incredible red flags pop up.
As one concerned Bluesky user noticed, recent uploads sometimes include a bot’s male voice repeating disturbing, nonsensical single words for minutes at a time.
A cryptic voiceover reveals how the content ecosystem has been enabled by AI slop, with an entire full-length video that no human creator seems to have ever watched in its entirety. In fact, they’re proliferating like wildfire, but they can also make it harder for genuine content creators to stand out in the process.
In the week-old video, which has since been made public, the AI narrator repeats the words “what” and “oops” more and more vividly, eventually emitting obscene mouth sounds. As YouTube users helpfully point out in the comments of the video, several other videos also have the host tripping over the same words.
One commenter wrote: “I’m crying, this is the funniest shit ever.”
Another user wrote in the comments section of another 26-minute video: “So are we going to talk about an AI voiceover giving a bad stroke in 4 minutes or what?”
The person behind the account may be trying to exploit the platform’s algorithms to lure unsuspecting viewers through recommended and relevant videos or autoplay. However, it is unclear whether this account makes money through ad views. To monetize your videos with the YouTube Partner Program, you must have 1,000 subscribers or 4,000 hours of public watch time in the past 12 months.
Other videos shared by the channel are even more completely false claims, showing that the account is not only harassing unsuspecting users with creepy voiceovers, but is also pushing a ton of misinformation.
The title of one video reads, “WWE Legend Reveals Why Chuck Norris Was Killed,” conspiratorially suggesting that the late martial artist and actor did not die at the hospital following a medical emergency in March.
Another video falsely claims that wrestler Jade Cargill was “arrested for assault.” [Australian pro wrestler] Rhea Ripley. ”
It’s unclear who is behind this strange YouTube channel. The first video the account uploaded dates back to 2007, during the platform’s early days, and showed a pixelated clip of two boys playing soccer and speaking a Slavic-like language.
No one knows what happened to the account since then. About a month ago, I started spamming, and so far a total of about 90 WWE-themed slop videos have been distributed.
This incident is not the first time we have encountered highly suspicious channels. For example, last year 404 Media We identified a so-called “True Crime Case Files” channel that uses AI-generated visuals to promote tongue-in-cheek fake articles about “true crimes.”
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