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The YouTube Vibecession
By the numbers, everything is going great for creators. So why are so many of them scared it’s all about to fall apart?
If you’ve ever opened YouTube and seen a talking AI SpongeBob, a looping slime video, or something that feels engineered to ...
An easy way to do this is to go to Settings & privacy > Content preferences, and then open the “Unfollow people and groups” ...
A Kapwing study reveals that over 20 percent of videos recommended to new YouTube users are low-quality, AI-generated content ...
More than 20 per cent of the videos that the YouTube algorithm shows to new users are ‘AI-slops’, referring to low-quality AI-generated content, a new study has found ...
MrBeast’s former manager believes the era of creating another YouTube megastar may already be over and the algorithm is to ...
The issue has been highlighted by multiple subscribers on Reddit, who report that their mixes, autoplay queues and suggested ...
Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of comic books The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The ...
YouTube keeps growing fast. In 2025, there were more than 2.5 billion active YouTube users and over 100 million YouTube ...
YouTube is massive in 2025. More than 2.7 billion people watch every month, and hundreds of hours of video content go live each minute. With that much noise, even strong clips can sit with a low view ...
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AI slop and brainrot content now make up 1 in 2 YouTube Shorts recommendations, study reveals
That's according to new research from video-editing company Kapwing (as reported by the Guardian ), which found that more ...
YouTube now officially lets you filter Shorts out of search. When you search for something on YouTube, you can choose to only ...
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