YouTube channels that are mostly just reading Reddit comments.
Or reading "am I the asshole" or "relationship advice" posts.
Fuck. I hate so much of this crap.
A lot of these are also AI slop nowadays too
Similarly, youtube channels about disaster events that are just reading the Wikipedia page with some spooky music.
Only if they dont add anything themselfs
I started adding my own reactions to certain things since I started narrating for Cocules Reddit Readings (I need to do another one soon).
Every annual-ized video game. 2K, Fifa, Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed. Copy and paste, low effort trash that offers nothing new, different, or interesting. They're designed to be as bland and disposible as possible, to keep you addicted for a year and selling you loot boxes and additions until the next edition comes out.
Recipe websites.
Any trump speech.
Fast fashion.
Cars have been a prime example, IMO, for a long while.
Oh, the screen on your center console cracked or is out of date? You can't fix it on your own and you need the dealership to do it and if they can't, you need to upgrade your vehicle because they make the vehicle almost impossible to run without it.
Want to change your oil? A well known brandnI cannot think of the name of right now needs to approve! Heated seats? I think it was BMW that planned on charging you a subscription service for that.
I'm predicting in less than a decade, if things don't change, you'll not only be selling a liver for that car, but also all your healthy organs to be able to afford the subscription service to be able to start your car.
Oh, and don't even get me started on the kids pretending to be adults who own a vehicle so damn tall that they have to climb into it using a step thing in the side. I'm talking average height or taller and no visible signs that they struggle to enter ( other than being too short ). It's like watching an entitled toddler try to walk up stairs for the first time. You can't help but pity them, or at least I can't.
Hallmark Christmas movies are proto-slop. Same goes for Lifetime Original movies. Example with Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig, literally doesn't feel real.
I think that one is satire, it ought to be.
It's literally a parody of lifetime movies made by lifetime as a joke.
Short form video comedy with cringy facial expressions synced to music is my most hated example
fast food...
at this point can you even call that meat?
I grew up poor where you don't throw away food.
But yeah I'm not eating at Carl's Jr. That shit is nasty.
DropShipping. Basicly everything made in China
If we want to really strech it: plastic. We should have never invented plastic. The world would be a better one
Art pieces that are made and sold as little more than money laundering schemes. Playing GTAO again and am kinda surprised out of all the money laundering operations you can run, a bogus art gallery isn't one of them.
The "cooking blog" style where a simple answer to a simple question has to be padded with eight paragraphs of garbage. Like, I just want to know how to put a comment in a YAML file. I don't need a table of contents for this, I don't need to hear a brief history of how the comment was invented, just tell me the character to type.
Ghostwritten sequels to series whose original author is dead.
those Hong Kong ninja movies from the 80s that mixed chinese movies and ninja scenes
You shut your whore mouth, those chopsocky films are a treasure! The difference in quality and how the stories barely go together are some of the appeal of those movies. It's really cool how far some creators go to make their movie and have everything sorta be a somewhat cohesive narrative.
Shit like Kung Pow are great examples of the genre being done very well (even as a parody).
100 years of video advertising. Here let me rub this on your eyeballs.
Reaction videos - prime example of slop. WHO DAFUQ WATCHES THESE? Like, am I going crazy by not getting this? Why would I watch some person just sit there and react to shit, often exaggerating their reaction to get attention of a watcher, that brings literally 0 fucking worth to the original content?
Prank videos - only are second to reaction videos. 99% of the time are either fake or they do some questionable stuff to expectorating bystanders.
There's two kinds of reaction videos. The more common type a lot of streamers do is just garbage content stealing. The other is actually interesting or entertaining to watch.
What exactly is good about either of them.
Say, a professional lawyer is making a reaction video to some other video depicting something that breaks the law and gives comments form law standpoint - that is fine. But might as well count as a commentary channel rather than a reaction channel. Also, these are fucking rare!
And then we got trillions of channels that just watch movie/game trailers, funny tiktok/reddit/insta/9gag videos, or worse - movies and just occasionally react in an exaggerated tone to them or dont react at all - that is content cancer prime.
Reaction videos can be done right. There's a vocal coach on Youtube who listens to and comments on the vocal techniques in use in famous songs, the most fun ones are the ones she's never heard before. It's also really easy to do this kind of content lazily, play someone else's video and remember to say "oh shit" occasionally.
Super Hero movies
almost anything Disney produces these days.
I'd say more specifically, Disney's live action remakes of their old films are slop. Though I've not watched a Disney film since Turning Red, they've not seemed appealing for a while now.
Oh God yes. The studio push for reboots, remakes and adaptations already runs the risk of by-the-numbers 'creativity', but those live action remakes are the natural progression. Not even a new take or reimagining, just a lazy, safe cashgrab.
Anything found on aliexpress, temu or wish. Manufactured trash/industrial runoff that's likely dangerous to breathe near.
Television news. In fact, most of the shit on television these days.
The idea cancer for toddlers section of youtube, which I think they have since cleaned up. The "finger family pregnant elsa kills hitler spiderman" era. Which was kind of fascinating to study, because no one was in charge. iPad children weren't making decisions, they were just letting the colors and sounds happen, and actual people deciding to make the content, sometimes to the point of wearing costumes and shooting live video, were making what the algorithm deemed popular. At least one woman pulled a bright blue dress over a fake baby belly while her husband scribbled a toothbrush mustache on a Spiderman mask and didn't think "What the hell are we even doing right now?"
SEO slop is the first thing that comes to mind. It's super-charged in ubiquity with AI now, but it's been a thing about as long as search engines.
Sometimes you land on a page and you can tell you're only there because they loaded it with keywords, repeating the same phrases you searched for in every variation.
SEO is actually one of the things that started me thinking about this. Although those dumb overly long cooking blogs were (previously) written by humans, the incentives led to a style that was no longer genuine. Much worse were those shameless fake review sites that existed solely to promote some VPN or antivirus. Sure, a human might've put that together, but so many words with so little regard for meaning.
I never understood why we tolerate the whole recipe site bullshit. It's been a thing my entire life and it would take no effort to make a recipe site that just gives the recipe. You could when keep doing the 8000 word essays for the search engines and just hide it in the background or something.
I got so tired of them I actually started asking ChatGPT for recipes instead. It's mostly worked out.
Go buy a physical copy of the Joy of Cooking
Those garbage/misleading mobile games in ads
Also why the hell is this a thing? Those ads are showing gameplay, it would be so much easier to make that game and then take a video of it for the advert than to just make an animation of it. So in my mind the game exists. Why is it just Mafia Wars reskinned every fucking time?
Because “mafia wars” makes consistent money, and the games people actually might want to play don’t. Slapping a new coat of paint on the same mechanics over and over again means getting the money maker out there to more people, just gotta lure em in with the promise of a game they might actually want to play, then swap in the game they don’t and hope you snag em with the psychological tricks before they leave.
It works just often enough to make it profitable and easy.
Background music for all advertising during the holiday seasjinglejinglejingle jazzybellsbellsbellsbells BING BANG BONG BING DING DANG DONG although I suspect this is increasingly AI slop at this point
The Jerry Springer Show
shorts, ads, fast food
Most phone apps, a lot of modern software, SEO bullshit, the current web, virtually every show, the vast majority of Hollywood films, a lot of the music that makes it to the charts, influencers' "content", adverts, the overwhelming pile of crap that no one buys on Steam, lots of AAA games that too many people buy on steam, the poorly-written bottom of the barrel fanfiction that passes as books, and a depressing amount of stuff posted on social media, including this comment.
Yes, I am grumpy today, why do you ask?
Most songs with lyrics. One that comes to mind is a tune with the line "say what you came to say" that repeats dozens of times in 3 minutes. Dude should take his own advice and actually say something.
Law and Order, Law and Order Special Victims Unit, Law and Order Organized Crime, Law and Order Toronto, Law and Order Criminal Intent, Law and Order LA, Law and Order Trial by Jury, Law and Order True Crime, Law and Order UK, Code of Law (aus), Paris enquêtes criminelles (fra), Закон и Порядок. Отдел оперативных расследований (rus), Convictions
Bible versions first released after 1871 (NIV, ASV, ESV, NKJV, NASB, etc.) have all become slop.
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