📝 TL;DR Kapwing’s new “AI Slop Report” estimates that roughly a third of a new YouTube user’s Shorts feed is low quality AI content. A small group of AI driven channels is racking up billions of views and millions in ad revenue, while thoughtful human made videos fight to stay visible. 🧠 Overview The report looks at how much “AI slop” and “brainrot” has crept into YouTube, and which countries and channels are benefitting most from it. AI slop is defined as careless, low effort auto generated video made to farm views or push opinions, while brainrot is compulsive, nonsensical content that leaves you feeling mentally drained. The big picture, low quality AI video is no longer a fringe problem, it is now a structural part of what many people see by default. 📜 The Announcement In November 2025, Kapwing published the “AI Slop Report, The Global Rise of Low Quality AI Videos,” based on social data and YouTube trends from October 2025. The team manually analyzed the top 100 trending YouTube channels in every country, flagged AI slop channels, pulled view, subscriber, and revenue estimates, then tested a fresh YouTube Shorts account to see what a new user is shown. The headline findings, Spain’s trending slop channels have over 20.22 million subscribers, South Korea’s have 8.45 billion views, one Indian channel is estimated to earn about 4.25 million dollars a year, and around 33 percent of Shorts on a new feed are brainrot. ⚙️ How It Works • Clear definitions first - AI slop is defined as careless, low quality content generated with automatic tools to farm views or sway opinion, while brainrot is compulsive, nonsensical content that seems to corrode your attention and is often AI generated. • Global channel scan - Researchers pulled the top 100 trending channels in every country, then tagged which ones primarily publish AI slop or brainrot, building a worldwide view of where this content is gaining ground.

I've been on Skool since August 2024, and I just wanted to say welcome to everyone who joined Dean & Tony's group. This is remarkable. I love seeing how many people want to better themselves and educate themselves. I also think the first question we get asked when we join--about wanting to be positive and collaborative rather than spreading hate--is cool. I think I'll use that:) These types of groups are about the members even moreso than the hosts, and so you all are very welcomed here, and appreciated. Thanks!

Hey everyone. I hope your holiday treated you better than mine. I just crawled out of a flu, and now that my brain is back online, this hit me: AI isn’t new anymore. What’s new is how loud the conversation got. I think we’re at (or near) peak AI hype — where expectations are running faster than what most people can actually deploy in a stable way. That doesn’t mean AI is going away. It means the noise is about to thin out. This happens with every major tech shift. There’s even a name for it (Gartner’s “Hype Cycle”): after the peak, flashy demos stop impressing, shortcuts stop working, and reality starts asking uncomfortable questions. Like: who owns this, what breaks, what happens on a bad day, and what’s the rollback plan? And honestly, that next phase is good. Because what survives isn’t “cool tools.” It’s boring, integrated, reliable use — AI inside a real workflow, with limits, approvals, and something you can debug when it fails. Value measured in time saved, errors reduced, or response times improved… not vibes. Curious where you’re at lately: more AI fatigue, or more clarity about where it genuinely helps?