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Brain Rot Culture Has Gone Too Far · The imuRgency Room

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We're in a content slop epidemic on this app.
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I think the only way I could get into Cat's Eye is if I genuinely
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separated the art from the artist.
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I think they have a few good hits.
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Cat's Eye has horrible music. It's what's become the viral
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opinion of the week on here ever since Internet Grow was debuted.
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Are Brain raw and absurdist memes just modern day dadaism?
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I think recently something weighing on my spirit is the
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state of media and content. More than ever.
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We are scrolling through Sora video after VO3 video after
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nauseatingly overindulgent mukbang, all paired to an AI
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TikTok Brazilian funk song. Even with an algorithm more
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advanced and more acclimated to your echo chamber than ever,
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it's seemingly harder than ever to wade through the mock.
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To find completely human and intentional content Like we're
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living at a time where brain rot is king means me more and more
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with less and less, and we're beginning to like the beat a
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little bit more than we like the actual song.
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This is all to say that the state of content must be
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addressed now. I saw this TikTok back cake,
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started this train of thought and you know what?
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Yeah, it's all TikTok. That was talking a lot about how
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current meme culture and TikTok humor like 6-7 and like Skippity
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toilet rizz. I can't believe those words just
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came out of my mouth. Is a form of modern day Dadaism
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in the sense that it's kind of like an absurd nonsensical
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reaction to the chaos of the world right now.
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I was talking to a friend who studied art history in college
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and she was saying that there are a lot of parallels but this
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conclusion might be misguided and so I decided to find out for
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myself. So first of all, what is
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Dadaism? Dadaism is an art movement that
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was formed in the aftermath of World War One in Zurich and it
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was both anti anti bourgeois bourgeois and generally
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associated with the radical left.
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It really got me thinking especially in that last part
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about the lack of intentionality and randomness in Dada ISM and
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how that applies to our modern name landscape.
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Like I know that TikTok explained but you may be asking
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like really what is Dada ISM infamously called the anti art
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art movement. Dada ISM divulged out of the
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disgust and resentment from the bloodshed and horror of world
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which began in 1914 and ended in 1918.
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And Da ISM's main purpose, though, was the challenge of the
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social norms of society and to purposefully make art that would
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shock, confuse and or outrage people.
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It drived on counter attacking everything that was conventional
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in society. And the data is, as they called
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themselves, considered themselves the rebels of the art
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world and later inspired major movements such as surrealism and
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even punk rock. Yeah, it is.
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Come on, Beyoncé. Although Dadaism originally
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started as a protest of the First World War, it soon after
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grew into its own cultural phenomenon, permeating attitudes
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thought to originally be taboo, offensive or childish.
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Are we seeing any similarities to traditional Dada ISM to where
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we're at today? Essentially, this art form was
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born as a sort of celebration of meaninglessness or nonsense in
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the Sabria Carpenter in response to such serious and horrific
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times in the world. And the motivations of this
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world were, of course, political.
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And I think that's where there is a disconnect is that memes
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we're using today aren't inherently political, but dare I
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say perhaps in response to the seemingly always political
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upheaval and turmoil we face and these never ending unprecedented
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times. That might be a little bit of a
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stretch, I know. But please stay with me and
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whatever your thoughts and opinions.
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And thought it as a maybe, it feels like there is a slight
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parallel running in what we're seeing in terms of visual
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language and expression online. Or in other words, memes with
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many current training needs and arguably media being absurd in
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nature and also just kind of meaningless.
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And when I say that I know that I sound Onkan chopped and I'm
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sorry. I really hate, I hate to be
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onkan chopped. I really hate sending both those
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things. But please let me down the face
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and tell me that 6 had a weird traffic.
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I wish I had a bag of chicks people with my chick while I'm
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in jail. Lebou means something to not
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only you, but to a random 60 year old in the streets.
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Like the way I'm hearing everyone and everyone being
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articles, tick tocks, and just people describe it is that all
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this is just meaningless and that there's no reason to go
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further to ascribe a certain meaning to it, right?
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And when it comes to 6-7 specifically, I've heard a lot
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of people describe it as like 21, if you remember the Vine 21,
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but like 21 had more Vine cultural context, so to speak.
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I know that 6-7 comes from the sporting world but has migrated
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its way over to everything else. So, you know, there's that.
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Or hey, there's even the LA Public Library explaining it,
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which is a amazing reminder to use your high berries.
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Hi I. Have a question?
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My nephews keep going on about 6-7.
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What does that even mean? I'm not too familiar with that
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topic, but from what I understand, December 2024 Philly
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rapper Squealer came out with the song Doo Doo where he sings
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6-7, which some speculate is a reference to the police code
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1067 to investigate it. The police codes vary by agency.
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Or maybe no, this is that serious because kids are kids
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are kids in every generation. But that's too easy of an
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explanation. You know, on emergency, we do
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know that it is that deep and we're definitely going to get
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into that in the current content slot timeline that we're living
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in right now. So for all of my art history
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box, my critical thinkers, we're just anyone with eyes and ears
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over the past year or so. Sound up in the comments to your
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thoughts on Dadaism and let's get educational.
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And when we're talking about Dadaism and how it's about the
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meaninglessness and absurdity in the face of very serious times,
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this extent into the state of entertainment today.
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This might be a news flash to somebody, but we are living in
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some serious time and it's very easy to seriously weigh on your
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mental health. Now before we get started, I
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must purpose this conversation with saying I am not the
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ultimate purveyor Art. OK, I am not Leonardo da Vinci,
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I'm not Charlie XCX, I am not Anna Waitor, and I am certainly
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not Beyoncé, although people do. Say what you think.
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I love my reality TVI watch TV shows.
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You could see that by my channel's video history.
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Not sure if he's mentioned. I get hooked on algorithmic hop
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like I go hard for golden and then gnarly like it's math for a
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reason. I even enjoy some of the things
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I critique on here and I really think it's time we start to have
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a conversation about what content we find ourselves
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watching and truly making the distinction between fun content
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in Good meat because I think we are completing the two and that
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is not the case. And I'm not saying that when you
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want to wind down, you got to play a Boots Riley or a Jordan
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Peele movie, although those are all amazing watches.
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Like I fully get the need for fun content to distract this
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from the matrix that we are all living in.
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There are even some of us that are caught up in all spare.
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But again, I do think it's important to moderate or at
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least switch off the type of content that we're watching.
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As I mentioned in many videos before, a lot of these platforms
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get money from our attention. It's called the attention of
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Kanye for a reason. OK, so it's really important to
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understand the value of it. But we become OK with accepting
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simple swap. Then they're winning because
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it's better and cheaper for them to put that stuff out.
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And I'm not saying that art and entertainment are inherently
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what they're saying because they're not.
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But often times, and especially in the recent past, there used
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to be a pretty overlapping Venn diagram.
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But each day we're kind of slowly pulling further, further
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away until we get to a point when we're just looking at 2
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separate circles. In a quote from comedian Josh
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Johnson. Art can save your life, but
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entertainment can never be your salvation.
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Entertainment, by and large, is escapism, and no one has ever
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escaped their chains but forgetting they were there.
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And that is a word. And this concept as a whole
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remain the biggest difference between art and entertainment.
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I know often times when art and entertainment comes into the
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public lexicon for critique and ridicule, a lot of people are
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quick to jump to like the whole like, oh, it's not that deep
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where you're looking too far into it like and kind of condemn
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the critical nature art. And I do think there is some
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validity to that and the modern sphere of social media that we
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live in. I do think that we need to be
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critical of things, but sometimes I think that we are
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hyper critical in a non constructive way with a lot of
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ways that we hold conversation in this course online,
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especially on apps like Twitter, TikTok.
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And if you're on YouTube where a lot of times, so this discourse,
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you kind of have to ask yourself like, what's the end goal?
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You're like, what end result do we really want?
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And often times there is not, it's just to chat.
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But on the flip side of that, there is still really a need for
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constructive art and entertainment critique because
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that stuff is important to prevent us from just mindlessly
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consuming slop. And on the concept of slop, this
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is going to be a crazy transition and please, please
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bear with me. OK, hold my hand, Oh my little
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gay hand when I tell you this. But when we want to talk about
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PLA specifically in entertainment, it's been
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typically in pop music and mediocrity.
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We got a sub conversation off with Cat's eye.
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Now I told you to hold my hand. Don't let it go and don't click
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away. And before you score clear
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before you get in comments up on orange to defend these Divas or
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to fresh these Divas just just no, no, we love cat song in this
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house hearing we love Cat's eye. OK, and I'm not just saying that
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I love cats, I love those girls. I'm trying to get tickets to
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their LA show so if anyone from Team Cats say or anything is
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watching I know they're coming like next week so.
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So we can work. But also, I don't listen to this
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next part because cats have the group are obviously very
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talented, hard working, beautiful girls.
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And the mediocrity question that I'm talking about when it comes
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to pop AR he am the group cat's eye balls with their management
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and label. And if this is news to anyone,
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I'm sorry for killing the dream. But like, these girls don't
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really write their own songs, so I'm truly not going after them
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in any way. They are perfect and as we want
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to argue, are the reason that Cat's Eye is what it is right
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now. It's like if it was any
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different group of girls that were of lower caliber or lower
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tier, with what they have been given, they will not be as big
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or have the potential to be any bigger than they are right now.
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The girls themselves are carrying this group and I'm not
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being critical of that. I am, however, being critical of
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the writers room because we're the writers in the room with us.
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Like we have to admit, the standard for their lyricism,
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especially in these recent songs, has been dismal.
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Like, gnarly. Well, I love that song.
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It's so campy and catchy and fun.
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And the dance will see. Can we say in all earnestness
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that the song itself was good? That size music isn't good.
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In fact, I think it's the only thing that isn't good about
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them. I think it's the only thing
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that's really holding them back. I know they had a big year
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anyway, but imagine how big their year could have been if
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they had more than 2 1/2 listenable songs and their
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lyrics didn't sound like they were written by the Glee cast.
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Because again, this is not as straight to the girls
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themselves. Like you have a vocalist like
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Laura who has an amazing range and amazing voice.
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Tell her awesome how to get out. You're hollering the studio on
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something like a hippie. When it comes to lyrics
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specifically with cat side, I think the writer just be putting
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song titles in a random word generator and let fashion
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because nothing is ever really being said.
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Like at this point, what's the point of genius?
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Like actually I might have to reject that because looking at
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an early's genius page and looking at people grasping at
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straws to find deeper meaning in the song.
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Like please. Some of the buzz words include
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satirical consumerism, mocking the music industry.
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And I really hate to be that person, but like I really don't
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think they were doing all that and was the intention.
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And you can definitely tell that's the case when the cats
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and girls were asked to define what the SOG means to them.
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And girls ain't no either. But again, I like the beat.
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I still be going hard to Gnarly. But to me this all shows that at
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least on some level, people crave some kind of deeper
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meaning because they're searching for it and at the very
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least are looking for a meeting to justify their likes and
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dislikes. Like when it comes to Gnarly
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specifically, why did everyone I don't have to bring wash
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themselves into liking it? Like I feel like this is how
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everyone who's ever introduced Gnarly to someone else is how
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they had to plead their case. You're not going to get the song
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the first time you hear it. After the second and third time,
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you're going to be like, whoa, what is this?
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Like even outside and early, I feel like this happens more
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often than ever for like artists and entertainment across the
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board. And in that sense, I feel like
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I've gotten them to myself. Like maybe all of my niche
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interests shouldn't be a giant. Hear me out, but here we are.
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But getting back to Cats, I hate to say it, but like Gnarly is
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only one of many such cases, especially recently because Cats
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has been getting a lot of discourse online over their
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newest song, Internet Girl. They've been debuting on tour
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and one of the main lines or standout lines in the song is
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Zuki E Zuki with like the genius lyric breakdown being like, they
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obviously mean it like the eggplant emoji innuendo because
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it's like vegetable neighbor. Like, did you warm up this
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morning? Because that logic is a stretch.
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Like I get it could still mean that and likely does mean that
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because of its phallic nature, but like vegetable neighbor.
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So now that we've heard Internet girl eat zucchini and it's now a
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popular opinion that Cats has writing and music has a problem.
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I just want to say I told you so.
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I remember when I released my original video on Cats I like
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back when I first started this stuff and I got dragged called
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an anti called Everyday pig. Loser.
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Stupid. I was dragged because I said I
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don't think they'll be able to outlast like concentrating of
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the music industry if they don't put out meaningful music and
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that their current music is very very like bad.
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It's poorly written. The production sometimes is even
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not that great. Then there's the whole lyrics.
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Love allegations with their song Tonight I Might.
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Like just listening to Danielle verse and this is just very
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jarring because this really gives a sister sentence.
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So what would you do if when you OK, so he said yes would go.
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What would you do if when you OK?
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So he said yes, would. Go.
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Like, let's do a little weird breakdown right now.
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And again, no hate to Daniella, love her, but it goes.
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I know everyone around me doesn't move the same way, but
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it's kind of fun to be somebody different on the same day.
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And here we go. I'm not the perfect example of
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someone ready to handle the kind of party required to go fully
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inspired, but what, what is that?
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What does that mean? What are we?
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What are we talking about? And again, I have to reapport.
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This is not some weird vendetta against Cat's Eye.
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I know they're absolute stars, I love them all.
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But what is this writing? What experimental song is fair?
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Like, just trying stuff out? But at this point, this is just
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a pattern. And again, when asked about
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these confusing at best lyrics, the writers have answered that
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like they mean whatever you want them to mean.
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Like y'all don't want to hear. But even the Swifties turned on
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Miss Swift this album season, claiming that that album doesn't
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hit like the others and that the lyricism definitely is not what
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it used to be like. This obviously doesn't just
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apply to Tailored, but I think that artists and their teams are
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beginning to realize what they make the effort to put out
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something good or not. Bands will still accept the slot
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in mass and will engage, will stream and will buy.
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Whenever Swifties say that they just need to listen to the album
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like 3 or 4 times and then they'll start to like, like
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that's not liking an album baby, that's Stockholm syndrome.
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The first time I listened to Red, the first time I listened
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to 1989, I loved it. I didn't have to listen to it
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multiple times to love it. It was good, so I loved it.
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My first listen through A Fine Line by Harry Styles was
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transformative. I loved it immediately.
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I first listened to A Short and Sweet by Sabrina Garmenter.
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Was phenomenal on the first listen.
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Understand. Some songs just take longer for
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you to understand the true meaning, but it doesn't take two
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or three listens of a song for you to like it.
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Like you know, if you like a song honestly on your first
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listen, like you guys sound like victims.
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This is Stockholm syndrome. This is not, it's not a good
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album. Can we just you okay to not like
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a Taylor Swift album? It's okay.
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From here on out, your Fade not making sense anymore, just say
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that they're exhibiting dot is qualities.
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Now is a little interlude in another addition to the content
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slot pipeline that we have been on as of late.
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We got to quickly talk about All Spare.
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I'm sorry my content slot does not just exist in the music
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industry, but this is truly happening across entertainment
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and the decline of TV and film has been noted for a while now.
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Of course, this isn't to say that movies and shows right now
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are all bad. It just seems that more of the
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bad, even if it's fun to watch media, is being proliferated or
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at least being shoved down our throat.
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And thus we mentioned All's Fair, a show that is just so bad
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that she can't look away. And this isn't just me saying
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this like top critics gave it a 0% and yes, all critics gave it
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a total of 3%, but are really fighting for that right here.
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Is it really worth it? If you haven't seen this show,
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the best way I can describe it is if it was like a TikTok, a
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vertical that got like scaled back to regular TV literally in
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the opening before the time card.
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It has a 10 year time jump within like one minute.
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And like Speaking of jump taxless, I know kind of just
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like how they treated the self on a living scene.
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It's like, it's just crazy how, like, someone jumps off a
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building and they like, never mention it again.
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Like, they might have just like, grazed past it in like a
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throwaway line, but for the rest of the show, they kind of spend
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more time showing interiors than they did covering something as
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traumatizing as witnessing a shoot from their office
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building. Like, it just feels very
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disconnected and desensitized to most of the heavy topics at
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hand. Like a throwaway line about how
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Sarah Olsen's character used to be a like.
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So far, at least, Evan addressed it again.
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Like, it really seems like they're taking a book out of 13
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reasons why and the fact that they're just trying to overwhelm
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and like trauma dump to try and grasp our little iPad baby
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attention spans with fast cuts, even quicker storylines, no
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character exploration or character development,
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insensitive and desensitized trauma written plot points.
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Crazy outfits. Kim Kardashian seemingly always
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wet slicked back hair and the bougie interiors and cars.
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Did I mention that Kim Kardashian's again, this isn't
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to blame you off you're watching it because I'm not to go play
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the latest episode. I will be tuning in.
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But the question is in a few months are we going around with
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the show? Does it have rewatch on you
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outside of maybe the memes that spawn from it?
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Artistic value, it seems more and more, especially streaming
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platform original shows feel this way and it's really
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disappointing to see what's getting green wet and what money
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is being poured into, especially considering their insane amount
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of executive producers. Like we know what the show
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specifically, it's like a vanity project, but it got so much
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marketing and press. Like I've said this before, but
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as a public, our power is in our dollar and in our attention.
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And if we give our attention to slot content, then slot content
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is what we're going to get. Now the question is, is this
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prepping our brains for an AI slot future?
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You know, I end this up in the AI critique.
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I'm sorry, I'm sorry. But like we do need to talk
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about the hidden AI slot that has been infiltrating our social
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media. But I don't know why this is
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some bigger news and why more people aren't catching on to the
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fact that it's infiltrated all aspects of our entertainment.
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But according to a futurism article, over 50% of rated
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articles on the Internet are AI generated, which is an insane
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number already. But even more insane is that
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there is yet to be a number on how many videos, images, or just
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content in general is AI. And I've been noticing more and
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more more content slot on social media, more than ever actually.
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Which is really hard to believe considering that Facebook has
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been on that way forever. There seems to be this
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proliferation of videos across social media, but mostly on
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TikTok. But I haven't seen this from
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seemingly bought accounts that RIP an original video from a
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human creator and impost on their page with either a
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seemingly AI person reacting to it or have the original creators
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video overlaid by an obviously AI video of the background.
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And the purpose of this is I actually genuinely have no clue,
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but it does seem that some of these videos have been getting
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high engagement or at least high views, which is taking away
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money and revenue from creators who posted the original video
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and scamming viewers into engaging with AI content without
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really knowing that it's AI content.
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But I'm seeing this more and more.
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No matter how many times I'm clicking not interested in this
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content, I am still getting the occasional AI video or Surah
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watermark in What is indefinitely more sneaky are the
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AI audios. My girls have one Brazilian funk
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song that turned out to be an AI generated remix of like a very
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real song from the 80s. And let the YouTube video alone
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has amassed over 5.7 million views in four months.
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So I truly can't imagine how many strings it has including
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all platforms. And like just thinking out loud
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here like does the original artist get sample rights or like
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royalties like is there legislation against this yet or
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not? And TikTok is not the only one
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seeking TikTok audios in without disposing that they're AI
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generated. There's even AI music being put
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into playlist and radio on platforms like Spotify.
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Like we first heard about this on Bench Topia's episode around
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streaming services and then the episode's called Regime of
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Convenience, which I highly record.
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You check about people already. But my researcher noted that she
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actually experienced this first hand recently, saying that she
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was playing her usual autumnal vintage jazz and heard a song
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that felt soulless question mark the spiritual thank you will.
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And she went to the artist's profile and as she suspected, it
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was an AI band. Like people have been saying
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online that Spotify is being flooded with like music made by
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nobody, like usually just instrumentals that are mixed in
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in like chill, peaceful mix playlist, like the typical
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background music that no one's paying attention to.
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But like that must feel so charring to experience like a
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betrayal. Almost no content disclaimer or
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even mention of AI on the page. You just kind of have to use
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disturbing because these platforms are not doing it for
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you, unfortunately. And a statement by a Spotify
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representative to MBR in response to questions about
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whether Spotify is considered implementing A detection or
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labeling system to music created with AI, as well as what
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challenges might arise from doing that.
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A Spotify spokesperson do not confirm or denied possibility.
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Spotify doesn't police the tools artists use in their creative
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process. We believe artists and producers
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should be in control, with the spokesperson going further to
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say in a written statement our platform policies focus on how
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music is presented to. Listeners and we actively work
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to protect against deception, impersonation and spam.
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Content that misleads listeners, imprints on artists rights or
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abuses the platform will be penalized or taken and see how.
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And I honestly think the toughest part of a lot of this
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whole conversation of AI is that it feels like a constant battle.
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But on the flip side, almost in an inevitability because
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companies keep sneaking AI into almost every experience online
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without your consent. Like you really can't search
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anything natively on Google without Gemini answering at the
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top. You can't go to Popeyes without
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occasionally having to talk to an AI assistant to take your
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order. And now you can't listen to a
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playlist about getting random AI generated user and you can't
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watch a YouTube video now without having an AI describe it
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to you. Like it feels like companies and
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corporations are trying to trick us into consuming as much AI as
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possible undetected so it manufacturers this consent to it
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when they push things further later on.
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And obviously this is all easier said than done to like just not
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use any of these things. But if any of you got any better
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AI free alternatives to any of these platforms and services,
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please drop them down below. And of course, we're not done
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with AI musics a lot. The most egregious here being
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the debut of certain AI musicians.
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Yes, you heard that, right? AI musicians.
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There's actually a very popular 1.
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I don't know if you know her or not, and I don't know if I'm
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saying it's the name, right? Zanya Monet, the R&B artist that
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was taking the R&B charts by store as well as Templeton's AI
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music company. Crazy words in your vote.
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Be together. And I think when it comes to
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Templeton, it's just crazy that the man who crafted the music of
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a lifetime doesn't really care to put in the time, effort and
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resources, which he definitely has into new, exciting young
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real artists, but rather put the energy in the AI musicians,
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right? Like, what are we doing here?
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Like wasn't AI supposed to be doing the boring stuff?
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Like obviously for many reasons, the possible feature of an AI
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entertainment can seem very grim and bleak and could be its own
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separate video. But we're trying to do love of
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my holiday season, so I guess we'll move forward.
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But with all that said, maybe asking me like, OK, room, you're
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saying all these different examples of like arguable slop.
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Why does it matter? And honestly, that's the
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question. Like it only matters if you make
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it matter. Like where do I knew Williams?
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Like do we care? Clap with you care of his AI
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generated right clap. If you care.
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All right, let's move on. Did you clap?
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I hope you clapped because I'm scared that a lot of people in
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this world would not be clapping.
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My point here with all this is that us lowering our standards
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for content and media in general with and for this propensity for
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fun and seemingly nonsensical content can actually be harmful.
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I feel that companies are always testing the limits to see what
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we find acceptable, what they can get away with.
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And that's slowly leading us down the path that smooths our
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brains out to the point where we're just OK with consuming AI
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slot because the second we become OK with it and except is
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the same second that these companies will accept that and
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do even more. Like if it generates the same
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engagement attention in money, why will these companies pour
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money into something worthwhile when they get to speed us AI
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slop like pigs in their shop for pennies on the dollar?
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It's a lot less money, brain power and manpower, AKA jobs for
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them. Like, I don't know.
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I also say without signing conspiratorial, but like they
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want us dumb. And like, of course, if you
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don't believe me and you don't care at that point, I have to
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include the MIT study that made headlines not too long ago about
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the impacts of AI. More specifically, chat TBT on
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our brains to get a little analytic.
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The study divided 54 subjects ranging from ages 18 to 39 year
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olds from the Boston area into three groups and they asked them
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to write several SAT essays using open AI ChatGPT Google
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search engine and nothing at all respectively.
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Researchers using EEG to record the writers brain activity
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across 32 regions and found that of the three groups, ChatGPT
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users had the lowest brain engagement and consistently
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underperformed at neuro, linguistic and behavioral levels
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over the course of several months.
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ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, say,
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often resorting to copy and paste by the end of the study
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and the model. There aren't studies yet about
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how specifically AI content can impact our brains.
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It's coming. Although I do think that there's
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a study specifically on how brain rot affects the brain in
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Shocker. It does exactly what the name
24:04
suggests, but given the increases of AI, how it
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functions to smooth it out our brains so to speak, we get
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lazier and lazier with our critical thinking and personal
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decision making skills. And of course, why does this
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matter? This is better for the larger
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companies if we care less and less about the quality of
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content that we consume. We ask any roomie that's cool.
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How do we spot AI content that if we want to avoid this content
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or at least know that it's happening.
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Well, AI has come a long way from the Will Smith spaghetti
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incident and AI keeps progressing at an exponential
24:30
rate. Meaning that it's going to
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become even harder and harder to spot the differences.
24:34
Also meaning it's going to be even harder to make the
24:35
conscious effort to either avoid or detect said content.
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But in the meantime, we at least got to try to keep our detection
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skills sharp. We actually hold content
24:42
creators to educate their audience and how is spot the
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ever evolving and insanely realistic AI content out right
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now. And one creator who makes
24:48
consistent content about about this is the creator Jeremy
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Carrasco. And he has tons of videos that
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give updated tips on how to spot AI and debunk and current
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videos. And he also has this other great
24:57
video about how to frame the current reality of AI slow and
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you even spend time. Online without losing your grip
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on reality. A lot of our time is spent on
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the 4U page. It's not great because we can't
25:07
scrutinize everything for AI. It's exhausting.
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So to help us out, let's divide our content by trust.
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The 4U feed or shorts feed is where the biggest change needs
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to happen here. Assume that nothing is real
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anymore. If you find something you really
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like, you should follow the page and you need to decide if you
25:26
can trust them. Figure out if they are an
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engager or a creator. For example, meme or rage bait
25:32
or slop accounts. Basically anyone who's just
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playing the algorithm to get influence or money.
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Those are the accounts that I call engagers.
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They aren't just AI creators, by the way, but they are more
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likely to use it. Creators like artists or
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musicians, teachers and a lot of influencers rely on authenticity
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for engagement, so they're a bit less likely to use AI, or at
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least they should be honest about it.
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So vet creators. I vet them all the time.
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That's my thing. And when I do it, I don't just
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look at one photo or one tweet or a single video because AI can
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get lucky. So you need to vet at least a
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few posts throughout their history to decide if you can
26:08
trust them. And then there are news outlets
26:11
or anywhere that's providing you critical information.
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Here you need a ton of trust, so only follow outlets that
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publicly verify their sources. So yeah, the state of Partha
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right now is absolute madness. While the concept of data ISM
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serves as a good reference to have when it comes to things
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like memes and art and where we're at right now, I wouldn't
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say seemingly meaningless content or media that we're
26:33
getting fits that definition entirely.
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I think we're honestly getting content that just generally
26:36
lacks integrity or quality because the people at the top,
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the powers that be if you will, know inherently by our behaviors
26:42
thus far though, we're kind of down to accept anything.
26:44
And we as consumers have to be aware of the seder that we're
26:46
setting when it comes to consuming mediocre at best
26:49
content, even if it is fun. And again, this isn't me saying
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that we have to kill a fun like we have to stop having fun and
26:55
stop engaging with meaningless stuff just for the fodder just
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because it's part now. We still can and should do that,
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especially in these times. I'm saying that we have to make
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a better distinction at what is fun and what is slopped because
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they're not sisters, they're cousins.
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Because at the end of the day, the more willing to accept, the
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more companies and productions will just feed us more and more
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slop And we know they aren't above cheaping out and giving us
27:16
that real low quality AX. Like we really just got to get
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better at distinguishing what's good content, bad content, or
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which just met for entertainment purposes.