AI-driven alternative universe, Maga characters' own Libs thriving on YouTube
If sometimes people live in their own universe, then it is not far from the truth. A new report by Mother Jones digs out a surprising world of Pro-Maga, where AI-generated slope videos carve a niche on YouTube by turning the most r/the Herp story into inspiration and others who need some copium.
This story highlights several of the biggest criminals, such as Elite Story and Mr. Robert’s story, as well as many others who created magazine alternatives to the universe. The account uploads videos of pure AI slopes from start to finish: the AI narrative tells a completely fabricated story and spreads AI-generated images to illustrate it. These videos usually run in 10 to 40 minutes, long enough to have several ad breaks to make money. As Mother Jones pointed out, some of the videos were indeed monetized.
Elite Stories has since disappeared from the platform – YouTube has been banned in response to Mother Jones’ coverage – but the cached version of the YouTube account that appeared in Google Search showed that the account had more than 160,000 followers at the time of its removal. The archived version of the account shows a sample of videos you can find there: “A little girl asked Trump about God-his response made her cry.” Other videos show Attorney General Pam Bondi and Clint Eastwood, for some reason.
Mr. Robe's story (this name by the way) has also fallen, but with over 41,000 subscribers, it offers a series of similar magazine tilt stories about people who make mistakes in the expanded Trump universe, just getting them hit by their 150 IQ heroes like Baron Trump and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
Some of Mr. Robert’s stories uploaded only a few hundred views, such as “Karoline Leavitt ruthlessly shot after Michelle Obama mocked Donald Trump”, which is really just a crazy trash of nonsense that obviously didn’t resonate with the audience. However, others have received over a million views. “Barron Trump laughed at Melania and his reaction shocked everyone.
“Barron is such a respected and well-received young man. His parents must be proud of it!” top comment read. “I respect the Baron very much, and my opinion of the professor has been reduced again!” said another. To be fair, uploading accounts, all videos appear to show a disclaimer at the beginning of the video, stating that they are totally fictional works. But when people want to believe this is true, they are happy to ignore the warning message that is a second long and instead take the content of the next hour and a half as a gospel.
Almost as disturbing as the video itself, the commenters and those who can't believe the story is real are the ads offered in it. While watching these videos in stealth mode (I wasn't trying to get my own algorithm **bad algorithm), I was given to me pseudoscience rubbish about Alzheimer's disease, including one claim that this condition is caused primarily by drinking water at the wrong temperature.
Earlier this week, YouTube released a statement supporting the 2025 No Fakes Act, which will establish protection for the voice and visual image of people who may be replicated by generating AI tools. But it seems that the platform has a lot of work to do in regulating AI content. Gizmodo has contacted YouTube for comment.
