Man I get annoyed by the critics of watching YouTube game play. Watching ANY sport is watching someone else play the game. Especially if there’s coaches. Then it’s exactly the same- you’re watching coaches play each other, instead of being a coach or a player yourself. If he’s 80 there’s a good chance he at some point bought baseball cards. Those are basically loot boxes. Announcers and sports reporters are like watching YouTubers talk about game play or whatever topic you enjoy. Its reaction videos.

Every AI slop video I see on YouTube I call out in the comments. Wether it’s using AI voiceovers, or video- I call that shit out.

Just want to point out that I'm pretty sure YouTube killed community-sourced or creator-uploaded subtitles, opting for full AI instead. Subtitles have become ass for pretty much every YouTube channel I watch, even the ones that made an extreme effort in the past to offer correct subtitles and in multiple languages.

AI slop has truly fucked us as a society.

Just yesterday I was at a friend's house and he turned on his TV to play some songs from YT and we were talking about bands and I mentioned a previous project from an artist and he found a video and it was clearly AI text read by AI voice summarizing the band history in the most bland way possible... the video was like 2min long but halfway through it I just picked the control and turned the TV off because I couldn't stand it - and I discovered my friend watch this kinda of crap always.

ps: I'm a millennial and I don't watch Youtube, I never did, I mean, sometimes someone sends me a video, mostly bands and stuff, and I watch them, a decade or more ago I had uploaded a few videos which were just music with a static image, occasionally I watch some other stuff people send me, like I've watched a couple of Benn Jordan videos about Flock this year, but I never followed a single Youtuber, I have heard of names like Mr Beast and whatever but I have no idea how they look like because I have as much interest in YT celebrities as I have in the Kardashians... when I'm with my mom and she starts brain rotting on short videos, I just put a headphone and listen to some music, that shit drives me crazy and the algorithm isn't even feeding her AI slop.

I've caught my mum sharing videos like that from facebook of all places. have all the time in the world for her, and have been trying to patiently explain why videos like that are detrimental, misleading, and just kinda lame all around.

really worry about shit like this. like some prick with whatever kind of agenda could be churning out these brainrot videos to needlessly stir unrest or what have you.

NEVER SLOP

Maybe you and your brother can work toward a place together?

Let me tell you a bit about my life. My mother has the amazing quality of picking a new hobby every year to get invested in. She spends thousands of dollars to get all the gizmos for her newfound passion and two weeks in, she loses interest. She's done painting, knitting, yoga, macha tea, whatever some lifestyle blogger tells their audience has solved all their problems, she bites her teeth into. The result is that the entire house is filled with unfinished projects and garbage to the point where doing laundry needs an appointment like a doctors visit so she can make the washing machine accessible. She finally settled on gardening, which gave me the false impression that the excessive hoarding would come to an end only to find out that apperantly 100s of flowers have to stay inside the house during winter. And despite it being her personal hobby, it has to be everyone's problem.

At some point I've had enough. I've made it very clear that when she finally meats her end that all of this, all her legacy, goes straight to the landfill. I have exactly zero sentimental or positive memories associated with all that garbage, and I will not lift a single finger to preserve it. The only memories I will have are all the times I've almost broken my ankle trying to step over carboard boxes. I asked her flat out if this is what she wants me to remember her by?

Now this hasn't solved the problem, but at least it has put a lid on it. I guess when you are faced with your own mortality and what you'll leave behind, it makes you at least think twice about your actions. Now as harsh as it sounds, my mother is in her 50s and in somewhat devent health so death isn't exactly waiting around the corner for her. Your dad on the other hand... I'm knocking on wood here, but in your situation this approach might be more effective.

Just ask him what he wants to be remembered by? All the good times you had, or how he spend his days watching AI garbage and whining about your own interests?

He should start watching documentaries about the worst nursing homes in the area and take vigorous notes about them when dad is around. Start leaving memory care facility pamphlets around the house too.

If it isn't AI it would probably some other awful right wing shit. The algorithm is manipulated and him being on this path is catered due to his watch history. You can blame AI+YouTube, but also have you talked to him about the content? "Dad that story wasn't real, I found it on the internet and it's made up. And I just looked up this one and it also isn't real. Can I help you find better YouTube channels to follow? There's a lot of good content but it can be hard to find without a bit of help."

Maybe he won't be receptive to content suggestions, but nobody else going to try to improve your dads life.

Good luck.

I'm with the dad on the game videos - the ones I've been exposed to secondhand were all annoying to hear. The "youtuber voice" is like a combo of game show host and commercial sales pitch voice, just a torturous thing to hear.

They should both find better quality entertainments.