YouTube channels that are mostly just reading Reddit comments.

Those garbage/misleading mobile games in ads

"Silverberg's Law"

Someone once asked science fiction writer Robert Silverberg why 90% of the SF stories they read were crap.

Silverberg replied that 90% of everything is crap.

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.

Ghostwritten sequels to series whose original author is dead.

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

Hallmark Christmas movies are proto-slop. Same goes for Lifetime Original movies. Example with Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig, literally doesn't feel real.

Shovelware video games could be included in the slop category.

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?

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.

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

• Super Hero movies

• almost anything Disney produces these days.

Liberty Mutual’s commercials are utter non-sense, no plot, not funny.

Please make them stop the slop.

100 years of video advertising. Here let me rub this on your eyeballs.

Pretty much any movie franchise on or after the 3rd film (Transformers, Fast and the Furious, etc). If it's based on a book series, then the first one after the source material runs out (e.g. Jurassic Park III and later).

The absolute epitome of non-AI slop has got to be these creepy videos that were on YouTube back in ~2017:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate

Its exactly the kind of thing you'd expect would be the product of AI, but it actually came before AI. I think a lot of it was procedurally generated though, using scripts to control 3D software and editing software, so different character models could be used in the same scenes and different scenes could be strung together to make each video.

I think a similar thing happens with those shovelware Android games. There's so many that are just the same game with (incredibly poorly done) asset swaps that I think they must just make a game once and then automatically generate a thousand+ variations on it.

• Funko pops
• those Hong Kong ninja movies from the 80s that mixed chinese movies and ninja scenes
• food that lost all taste and is basically salt, sugar, water and/or fat
• any movie franchise or TV show that has a 37th sequel or season
• The Loudness War in music
• Fast Fashion

I kind of like the idea of using the word "slop" solely for AI and finding other words to describe stuff that's just poorly made. Trying to ascribe "slop" to other things dilutes the word and will help AI companies to keep doing what they are doing.

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.

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.

Adam Sandler films post 2010

anything made by a boardroom, or"focus tested" or modified to appeal to xyz demographic.

the majority of pop music.

fast food...

at this point can you even call that meat?

The Family Circus cartoon (and probably other old newspaper cartoons that never die). I saw a video analyzing how they reuse the same cartoons over the years with small changes to keep them from looking too out of date, but increasingly lazily.

There's a ton of stuff that applies to the female demographic - all kinds of stupid words with LED lights on them, idiotic fake wooden plank signs that say wine o'clock, horrible "inspirational" messages in that goofy curly font, something that you'd normally sell to a guy except they hot glued a pink pom pom on it.

Temu dollar garbage. Especially 3D printed stuff

Short form video comedy with cringy facial expressions synced to music is my most hated example

Like a lot of tv shows.

Like... especially those cop shows, "police proceduals", booorrring. Also copaganda.

When I wanna find something new to watch, I basically have this routine where I start reading the plot summary of the thing on wikipedia, and if it sounds too boring, I'll just skip it. If I read like a few sentences and it sounds exciting, I stop reading the rest of the plot and just start watching.

I remember watching a lot of Hong Kong TV shows, those were sometimes fun, but its very like... I can almost predict the plot sometimes, like I just see a character and I know they're gonna flip sides.

But then we get to the Mainland Mandarin TV Shows... omg, okay so this was before I really got into western media.

So the Mainland stuff, its either:

1. Romance... boring, never watched those, cuz that felt very "adult" to me, not really appropriate for me as a kid, i thought (its always cringy to me)
2. Ancient China... royal courts... schemes... coups... enunichs... one of the emperor's wife plots against the concubine or some weird shit, some of the emperors sons fight each other for the throne... blah blah... ugh, boring, idk how I even stand watching those as a kid
3. Resistance against japanese-invasion... I mean I kinda used to like the espionage thing and morse code stuff, but like... now looking back, its so repetative... they have like so much of stuff about the japanese invasion, like... lol, they really want to instill the anti-japan hate into young Chinese kids

like... I don't think there are even shows or movies from China that are even interesting. I think the politics has to do with it. Like, you can't make anything originak and intriguing without getting censored, so they just stick to "safe" formulas. Thus the boringness.

Like. I tried to watch 3 body problem in the Tencent version.

Omg, why is it so boring?

I'm a native Mandarin speaker and I got to like episode 8 out of 30 and I just gave up... too slow, too boring. I liked the Netflix version better, especially the Cultural Revolution and Struggle Session scene they cut out, cuz Pooh bear said no.

So... I have Cantonese and Mandarin as my languages... that I just have no fun content to watch in... ugh...

But it felt good watching 3 Body Problem Netflix edition, and like being able to hear and understand everything said in both languages, perks of being bilingual xD

Fast fashion.

Recipe websites.

Any trump speech.

shorts, ads, fast food

That guy in every social platform sharing old ass memes and not apporting nothing else rather than fill the feed with super compressed pictures of an image that you have seen a lot of times before.

any maga conspiracy theories

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