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This AI Clapback TikTok Trend Is Modern Day Minstrelsy... · The imuRgency Room

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  I said no lettuce or tomato on my burger.
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  Fix this now. You need that lettuce and tomato
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  on your burger because your cholesterol levels are through
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  the roof and you're currently 2 burgers away from a stroke.
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  Oh dear, you look like a mess. Mind your own business before I
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  What's up? Is this Bigfoot with hand?
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  The baddest would part time cryptic full time problem.
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  Don't follow me if you scared of flees.
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  We are currently at a time in the Internet where AI has not
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  only brought back 2007's level of slapstick problematic humor,
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  but also somehow 1907's levels of minstrelsy to combine them
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  both into 2025's version of digital blackface.
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  Yes, I'm talking about the AI clap back videos Hey guys,
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  what's up it's emergency welcome welcome back to my channel today
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  we are talking about a new trend that is taking over the Internet
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  that originally started off as something that was ha ha funny,
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  but it's quickly devolved into something that is ha ha weird.
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  If you don't know what I'm talking about I'm referring to
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  this very specific genre of generated AI clap back videos
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  that have been taking over TikTok, Instagram and here on
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  YouTube. I.
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  Love my natural hair. My hair isn't real.
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  Death is seeking you at the bingo table.
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  This heat is damaging my hair. Oh, sweetie, your hair was
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  damaged long ago, just like your hip.
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  I love my natural, beautiful hair.
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  Honey, that's not natural. I can see your weave lifting.
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  Do you need that? You old nasty, because if you
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  need that you can get. That and this trend in these
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  videos seem to be taking advantage of Google's recent
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  released VO3AI engine to create these short clips where two
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  people are getting into an argument and clapping back at
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  each other in seemingly humorous ways.
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  Like think the natural evolution of like those early AI videos
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  where they'd have like 2 random people in a picture together
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  fighting each other and then randomly running off.
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  Like my mind immediately races to the iconic wicked AI where
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  people were saying that Glenda was asking if it was green like
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  crazy. But these AI clap back videos
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  are definitely something a little bit more serious.
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  Well, unserious if you're actually listening to the
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  subject matter, but serious in like the sense of like
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  implications. And actually in doing research
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  for this video, I stumbled across another video covering
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  the same topic by Robert Toby. And I think he did a great job
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  of like covering what's been going on at a high level.
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  And I really appreciate the allyship there.
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  And in his video, I think he draws a lot of great parallels.
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  And if you have not seen it already, you should definitely
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  go check it out after this one. But I wanted to take this
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  conversation just a step further.
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  I can confidently say white teens shouldn't AI generate
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  racial caricatures for TikTok clout made to be viewed by
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  people like me. But I'm not qualified to debate
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  the nuanced ethics of things that white people have no
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  involvement in. But I do.
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  So let's get into it. And it's really a shame because
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  these sorts of videos initially were funny.
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  Like the first one hit the For you page was funny.
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  But unfortunately as all the copycats began flooding in and
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  just trying to make a moment out of it, we are essentially seeing
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  the modern day version of minstrelsy, in many cases
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  blackface. And let's talk about exactly why
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  that is. So like I said, I must admit
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  when I first saw one of those AI cloud back videos, I did laugh.
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  I laughed because I thought it was funny because like, what do
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  you mean death is seeking you at the bingo table?
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  Like who says that It was a funny gag.
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  I never really seen anything like that before.
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  But after I liked that one video and as time went on, I began
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  seeing more and more from many different accounts and I and
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  many others began to notice some, let's just say, strange
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  similarities between all of them.
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  Now I. Can't be the only person trying
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  to get really witted up by those AI clap back videos.
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  First of all, why is everybody in the video black?
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  Not only are y'all making these AI videos of black people being
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  very aggressive, it's mostly black women.
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  And I find that really, really weird.
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  But now I'm trying to wonder. I was even being made by black
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  people. Like, yeah, it's funny.
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  It was also like, first of all, AI videos and then being like
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  all black people. Like, I just can't.
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  It's icky. I'm so sorry.
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  People really do enjoy seeing black people not happy,
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  especially when they can get like, a funny remark out of it.
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  And I don't know, I don't care if it's AI or in real life, you
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  know, I just don't see a black person making a lot of these
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  videos, especially like the gorilla one.
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  That's really, really weird. I'm sorry.
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  Most if not all these AI clap back videos that went viral had
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  always been made with black people, specifically black women
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  and more specifically having to do with their hair.
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  And the usual setup of these type of videos is black women
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  just existing, loving her hair, talking about her body tea, how
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  tea her hair is and just really giving us some AI life.
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  Until a random white person, usually an elderly white person,
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  shows up and says something either rude, progressive, or
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  macro aggressive, to which then the black AI comes and claps
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  back, usually with something akin to telling them that their
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  end is nigh. But it's not limited to just
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  that because again, each video seems to get worse than the
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  last, with the black woman either yelling more, cursing
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  more, being more stereotypically black, stereotypically ghetto,
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  as well as the things that the second person is saying being
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  more and more just blatantly kind of.
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  And again, the first few were kind of funny because they
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  started off being made by someone who was black.
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  The ethics behind making black focused AI in general is a
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  little shaky. But like, again, the first few
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  were funny because of, for one, the shock factor being the first
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  time you're seeing something like this.
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  And two, because they initially started off as being somewhat
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  cathartic. Because in the age of the Karen
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  that we've all been living in for the past however many years,
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  seeing these videos populate online of older white people
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  being in black people's business most of the time unprompted,
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  resulting in various outcomes for the black person who again
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  is minding their business. It provides that sort of
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  catharsis for like how we all kind of wish people people would
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  respond in those situations. But of course we know why a lot
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  of times in real life why that can't be because again, we see
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  the end result of things like that.
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  Like you that one meme saying that like as a black person,
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  you're never really alone when you're.
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  Black you're never really lonely because there will always be a
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  white person all. Up in your business.
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  But yeah, at least for me, and according to some of the
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  comments in these videos, it started off as just people
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  laughing about how this is how they'd want to respond to these
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  forms of micro and macro aggressive comments.
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  Now the scope of this video is talking more specifically about
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  digital blackface and how black people are being used
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  inappropriately for the sake of comedy.
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  These sorts of videos aren't limited to just caring clap back
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  stuff. There are also plenty of videos
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  of characters working in retail, working in food service, either
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  clapping back or just cursing out custom for their less than
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  intelligent questions that they may ask on a day-to-day basis.
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  And I've been seeing more recently a departure from these
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  solely black AI clap backs to branching out to like pretty
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  much every other minority group. Really marketing on that very
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  low brow form of humor, which can get very problematic because
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  it does just play on stereotypes.
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  Like This is why I was saying in the open, you have these videos
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  referencing and making fun of stereotypes about black people,
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  Asian people, Latinos, brown people and the likes.
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  And the reason why I said in the open that this is bringing back
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  a 2007 level of humor is because the last time that we saw like
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  this level of like low brow, low bar comedy, or should I say
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  comedy be something that we all saw fly and be really popular
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  was during that era. It was during the early ages of
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  the Internet where anything went before things like content
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  moderation guidelines and the general public sentiments around
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  things like that were able to catch up.
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  Again, it wasn't exclusively to 2007.
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  It was pretty much all the early 2000s and 20 tens, like, think
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  of like the early Vine days where the punch line of the joke
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  was just a stereotype or racism or misogyny or, Oh yeah, like,
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  look no further than frickin Shane Dawson, who built his
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  career off of playing so many stereotypes, literally doing
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  blackface, yelling, putting on a black scent and just generally
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  having this caricature of a ghetto black woman and having
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  that do absolute numbers and people loving it.
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  And there definitely can and should be a whole conversation
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  to be had around the state of the audiences that were tuned in
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  at the time being receptive to that type of content.
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  Again, after living through that.
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  Because the first time it was happening, the audiences had the
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  excuse of like, we were young, we were kids and we didn't know
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  any better. And he was praying upon us, not
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  knowing any better to laugh and fuel that.
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  But now a lot of us are grown. Well, those of us that are grown
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  are grown, and those of us that aren't have been on the Internet
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  long enough to know like what flies and what doesn't.
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  But getting back to the topic of conversation, there's also an
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  entire subsect of these clap backs of all white service
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  workers cussing at each other, screaming and yelling, hooting
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  and hollering. But it's like all in a Ave. all
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  in a black scent. And when we talk about how
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  exactly these types of videos are made, that makes things even
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  more sinister because again, I'll give you a little spoiler
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  to make these They're all prompts written by people.
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  So you wrote them to have a black scent, right?
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  And the themes behind all of these, the butts of these jokes
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  are essentially just low brow, racist, misogynist and often
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  times fat phobic rhetoric. And we need to talk about it.
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  And it's really wild that this stuff is going so viral and just
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  and being so widely just accepted because I think maybe a
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  few of us are missing a history less in what this all is.
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  And that being minstrelsy and digital blackface.
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  So let's unpack what that means. So what is minstrelsy?
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  What is a minstrel show? Well, according to
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  britannica.com, a minstrel show is defined as an American
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  theatrical form popular from the early 19th to the early 20th
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  century that was founded on the comic enactment of racial
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  stereotypes. This would essentially be when
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  white people would put on blackface and act out
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  dramaticized black stereotypes, often revolving around the
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  topics of laziness, being dumb, hyper masculine, hypersexual,
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  and perpetuating some even more harmful rhetoric and narratives
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  to stoke not only amusement for other white people, but also to
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  reinforce the dehumanization of black people, but often times
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  black people being conveyed as being animalistic.
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  Now obviously we know minstrel shows are very problematic on
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  many different levels, yet we still see some semblance of
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  them, or at least the impact of them passed down through time,
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  even to present day. Again, look at some of Shane
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  Dawson's other videos. But the way that the form of
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  this anti blackness has evolved over time is especially
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  interesting because until recently it's been done in more
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  covert ways, specifically through the advent of what
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  people call digital blackface. Essentially when non black
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  people use black slang, images, memes or speech patterns online
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  to seem funnier or like more expressive.
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  Basically embodying the essence of blackness and black culture
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  to sell the joke, sell the emotion and then taking it off
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  and putting it away when you're done with that.
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  CNN describes digital blackfaces, the practice where
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  white people Co opt online expression of black imagery,
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  slaying catch phrases or culture to convey Comic Relief or
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  express emotions. These expressions, which one
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  commentator calls radicalized reactions our mainstays and
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  Twitter feeds, TikTok videos and Instagram reels and are among
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  the most popular Internet memes. Now when it comes to digital
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  blackface as a whole and as is referenced in that article, I
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  don't agree entirely. I do think that there is some
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  important nuance there. Like, I think there is
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  definitely something to be said about the use of black or
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  African American faces and expressions to convey an
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  extreme, dramatic or intense emotion.
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  But I don't think that like solely using that makes you
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  racist. And that isn't what we're here
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  to say. Because I know a lot of times
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  when you start throwing stuff around like that, people feel
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  really hurt and don't really take in the message.
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  That's not what I'm saying. Like, no, if you're not black
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  and you're using a Wendy Williams meme, you are not a
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  racist, I promise you. I would say though that maybe
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  think about what specifically about black people's reactions
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  and expressions do you find so funny and just so right and
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  relatable in that moment? Because is it the expressions
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  themselves, the over exaggeratedness of the emotions
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  and expressions? Is it the combination of black
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  features plus these expressions that make them either funny or
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  relatable or just perfect for the moment?
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  Because if so, those are also very similar reasons for what
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  people found funny in minstrel shows.
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  Is the over exaggeration of black features, black emotion
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  and facial expressions. Again, just something to think
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  about, but I think a more sinister side to the digital
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  blackface of it all actually have to do with bad actors.
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  Actual accounts that pop up usually on Twitter and Instagram
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  of people that continue to post build followings using a Ave.
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  speaking on topics that are relatable to black people in the
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  vernacular of a black person having a black avatar, engaging
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  in black Twitter discourse but fully behind the screen not
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  being a black person. And let me tell you that this
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  has happened so many times on Twitter where the person
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  eventually gets exposed as not being who they say they are,
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  quite literally putting on a digital blackface, which is
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  absolutely be crazy. But now that we have a common
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  understanding of the terminology and what we're talking about,
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  let's bring this back to the AI clap back videos.
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  Well, for one of these AI videos are essentially using either
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  generated black faces, prominent black stereotypes, or ways of
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  speaking as the butt of the joke.
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  They're not just borrowing from black culture, they're trying to
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  generate blackness, which by no means is anything close to
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  representation. It's simulation.
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  The very same tropes that used to get painted on white people's
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  faces in minstrel shows are now being generated, artificially
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  packaged into an 8 second funny fight scene and post it online
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  for engagement, for clout. And the sad part of this all,
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  the gag of it all, is a lot of people posting and making these
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  new versions of these problematic videos are not
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  black. You see how things tend to
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  repeat themselves. So truly, who is this content
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  for if the creators of this are no longer black?
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  It's going out and being engaged with and laughed at beyond a
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  solely black audience where the butt of the joke stems from and
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  resides in caricatures of blackness.
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  And a large problem with that is right now, people aren't seeing
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  a problem with it. And more importantly, what is
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  this brass clot mid? Upon the river like.
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  Moses What? McKeon.
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  Swim. So let me tell you all about
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  this. I caught her on my man's banana.
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  But The thing is, her FUPA was so big I didn't even know my
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  man's was there until I started hearing him gasp for air.
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  And especially that one. If you don't think that one is
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  that deep, you are sorely mistaken.
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  Because what? But that is a directly offensive
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  caricature of a black woman. Especially tall, dark skinned
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  black women have a long history of being dehumanized,
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  defeminized compared to animals like gorillas.
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  Like do y'all not remember how the country treated Michelle
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  Obama when she was first lady? No, they'll let me ask you
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  something a little more current. What are the barbs called?
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  Megan the stallion, a tall black woman, right?
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  It's menstrual sea. It's racist, it's anti black and
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  it always has been. And that's the problem.
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  But now let's talk about the virality of these type of videos
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  because making them is one thing.
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  The fact that they are so popular and everywhere is
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  another. Because again, for the most
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  part, it's the same setup. Black person or someone speaking
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  in AABE getting harassed essentially and then having the
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  situation get aggressive. And The thing is, you watch
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  these compilations of all these videos getting put back-to-back
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  to back-to-back, and you see the people that are making these are
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  deliberately trying to up the stakes and trying to make it
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  more over the top, more, more dramatic, more stereotypical
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  than the last. Because you see the characters
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  get angrier and angrier, yell more and more, more
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  gesticulation, more stereotypical blackness or
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  whatever race they're trying to stereotype and just continue to
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  have these negative stereotypes be the butt of the joke and to
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  spread and proliferate them more and more.
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  Based on what you see in these videos, you're walking away,
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  associating black people with being obese, loud, aggressive,
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  eating at McDonald's, working at McDonald's, having fake hair,
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  having baby daddies, being ghetto and attacking white
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  people. And this is especially
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  concerning because these videos are very popular.
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  They're on things like TikTok, YouTube Shorts, reels, platforms
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  that have exceptionally young audiences, instilling the young
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  generations, the new generations with these stereotypes, very
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  similar ones that those of us that are older and were around
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  during the times of early Internet went through.
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  And it's just a shame because yes, I guess it's unfortunate
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  that it has to be like a rite of passage, but like, what happened
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  to progress? And the real problem with this
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  is that as time goes on, these no longer become joke.
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  Suddenly what used to be a funny little TikTok becomes an
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  inherent belief or a subconscious belief.
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  Instead of thinking of black and a strong, inspiring, hard
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  working everyday people, Black women are now loud, aggressive,
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  obese, where is fake hair, works at McDonald's and always wants
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  to fight. And it's at the point where it's
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  not funny. And it feels like we're looping
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  right back to the 1920s. Minstrel tropes just aged up
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  enough to be palatable for 2025 audiences.
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  And this is more of a like an abstract section where I'm just
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  talking about like how these forms of AI, these AI clap back
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  videos are kind of like flooding our way into the acceptance and
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  normalization of AI content as entertainment.
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  Like I'm still negotiating with how I feel about AI usage, but
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  one thing I know for certain is that the first wave of
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  normalizing generative AI is through entertainment.
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  Again, like most major changes or shifts, everything is
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  gradual. So by getting us used to
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  laughing at, engaging with, and accepting content like this,
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  especially the more blatantly problematic stuff, as time goes
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  on and the next iteration comes through and it's more palatable,
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  it's less problematic, we'll be less likely to be opposed and
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  think of it as more of a normal thing.
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  Having AI content creators entirely AI generated
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  productions. Because again, we are more
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  comfortable and more familiarized with having
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  artificially generated content be a part of our content
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  consumption culture. And I know that this is true
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  because of how public sentiment has changed over even the past
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  year around people a year ago swearing that they'd never be
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  fooled by AI, would never watch anything, 100% know the
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  difference between whether something was AI generated or
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  not, wouldn't engage with AI content because it doesn't even
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  look right or isn't even funny and is awkward and uncanny
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  valley. Now look at you.
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  Look at you. Step one, don't be like me and
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  glue your eyeballs shut. Use the ear not your front Cam.
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  Step 2. Pray these tweezers do not got
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  my back today. Hold up.
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  Hold up. PE already.
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  That's one cluster down. 39 to go.
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  I'm basically a licensed esthetician now.
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  Y'all see the vision? I look like a tired fairy.
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  A sexy one. Y'all.
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  Y'all look at me. I did that.
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  Don't ask me to do them again. I was fighting for my damn life.
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  But ID ID that I'd that. Hey Laquifa, looks like your
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  baby daddy ended up at my crib again.
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  You better buy a leash if you don't want him here no more
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  because he's always running to me.
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  Bye Boo. Laughing at the AI clap axe
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  being like oh this stuff's kind of good like girl.
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  But let's take a quick pivot and talk about like how people are
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  even making these videos in the 1st place.
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  What are the drivers buying this?
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  Because this just seemed to drop out of nowhere and seemingly it
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  did with VO3. Google VO3 is an AI powered
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  video generation tool from Google designed to create high
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  quality short cinematic videos with matching audio.
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  Meaning that VO3 combines the very good visuals, audio,
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  dialogue, background sounds, whatever would have you to make
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  it seem more realistic. And apparently that also
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  includes different accents, dialects as we can see.
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  And the magic of all of this is that it's all generated from
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  prompts, written cues, similar to how you write something in
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  ChatGPT. Except for the very low price of
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  either $20.00 a month or $250 a month for the ultra premium
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  package. You yourself can create your own
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  problematic AI clap hack video. But all jokes aside, like this
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  isn't cheap stuff like you're paying $20.00 a month for the
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  pro package and I'm not entirely sure what that gets you.
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  I'm not sure if you can get, as you know, problematic with the
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  $20 version as you can with the $250 version.
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  I'm sure with that you can offend the masses at the click
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  of a button or the typing of a couple of sentences.
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  But the moral of the story is like, this isn't cheap.
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  So people are actually paying for this.
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  And one thing that Robert highlighted in his video was the
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  corporate irresponsibility of the developers behind VO3,
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  specifically around the lack of guardrails, lack of moderation
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  around the things that VO 3 is allowed to generate.
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  There should be bounds for what you can and can't create,
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  especially when the things that people are creating are directly
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  in contrast to the company's values and principles.
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  And it's not like this is a foreign concept.
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  You see these forms of moderation and other generative
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  AI services, like one that comes to mind most recently and most
• 18:40
  prominently, at least for me, is like Genmoji.
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  Like, well, yes, it's still definitely possible to create
• 18:44
  something absolutely outlandish on Genmoji.
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  It's definitely not as easy as just like typing in whatever
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  problematic emoji you want to see it create because there are
• 18:52
  parameters around what the generative AI will and won't
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  create. And I agree, I think that there
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  definitely need to be harder limits imposed upon what you're
• 18:58
  able to create on VO3, because it's not like ChatGPT, it's not
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  just giving you static images. VO3, for better or worse, really
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  does give you the ability to to create a different reality
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  because reality is perception. And as many of us know,
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  generative AI is getting harder and harder for us to
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  differentiate between what's real and what's fake.
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  So if you're able to create anything, a visual and auditory
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  version of anything, we can get in some very dangerous and as we
• 19:23
  see now, problematic territory and the fact that it seems like
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  at least looks like all guardrails are off.
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  It really feels that VO 3 is irresponsible at best or
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  complicit in a new wave of digital racism and
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  discrimination at worst. And just a little tangent, I did
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  see that like VO3 adds a little VO watermark to show that it was
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  generated by VO. That's not enough, babes, That's
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  not enough. And this isn't just for real,
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  it's for all generative AI. We need bigger watermarks.
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  We need it to be legally mandated for AI to have
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  watermarks for you to tell that it's AI generated or not.
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  Like at least if it's not in the watermark, put it in the
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  metadata. Like how you know, like on
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  iPhone where you can like scroll up on your photos and you can
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  see like the date, location and all that stuff about the photo
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  that was taken. We need something like that for
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  AI generated videos, photos and whatever because it's getting
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  too real and it's getting too hard to tell the difference
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  between what's real and what's fake.
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  And I know now it's just the early stages, but people are
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  already cooked. But to bring this all to a
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  close. So I think I've been yapping
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  entirely way too long. This is all to say again, that
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  there needs to be some major guardrails put in place for
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  generative AI, specifically for VO3 and any other video, an
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  audio prompt based model like that to make sure that stuff
• 20:28
  like this cannot continue to happen.
• 20:30
  And we also need to do better as audience members at not falling
• 20:34
  for and into the traps of or otherwise problematic content
• 20:37
  verticals. We don't need to be making more
• 20:39
  of these for engagement. I promise you, we've seen
• 20:42
  enough. Like if that isn't bad enough,
• 20:43
  at least think about all the water that you're using to be
• 20:45
  racist. Like that should be crazy
• 20:47
  enough. But yeah guys, thank you so, so
• 20:49
  much for watching. Now I want to hear from you.
• 20:51
  Have you been seeing these videos?
• 20:52
  What do you think about them? Do you see them as problematic
• 20:54
  or do you see them as funny? I'd love to know all your
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