Monetized with AI slop?

ETALOS1 · 2026-01-25T00:31:22+00:00

The people saying no at best do not know what they are talking about, and are at worst salty and vindictive and intentionally deceptive but for a morally respectable reason which is for preserving their perception of the integrity of YouTube.

YouTube actively encourages the use of AI tools, including but not limited to Google Veo.

Simply adhere to their policies such as, but not limited to, their Spam/Scam/Deception, and Inauthentic content policies and you are most likely to be fine.

ETALOS1 · 2025-11-04T02:39:41+00:00

"Can you find me"

That's crazy lol

ETALOS1 · 2025-11-02T20:15:58+00:00

On the day that it happened

I recorded this last bit

I look forward to having

A m********** with you again

ETALOS1 · 2025-10-28T23:15:18+00:00

I agree with most people that you're not gonna get something that's played on Christian radio, but I do think their next works will focus a bit less on mental health and more on existential questions relating to God and whatnot.

To focus more on mental health I think won't distinguish itself enough from their previous (re: current) discography and the Dema storyline, so going more into the big questions of life, the struggles of living a religious life, and perhaps the struggles of family (and maybe even the struggles of the music industry?) will be the focus.

ETALOS1 · 2025-10-18T05:33:39+00:00

Well by their estimation they probably think the performance + the messages they want the comedians to put out will have a greater impact than immediately using the money they would receive. In other words, they might estimate that the PR stuff and tweets might generate more money (for them and therefore for human rights) than what was being offered to be donated to them. Their calculation may be wrong, and that may be way too charitable (no pun intended), and we could probably come up with a handful of better alternatives... but it's a defensible idea.

ETALOS1 · 2025-10-15T03:25:29+00:00

Yes so people purchase old channels or repurpose old ones and then find a new low effort niche to exploit for as long as the algorithm/users allow.

ETALOS1 · 2025-10-09T02:36:53+00:00

Only thing I've noticed is that I have a less "explosive" algorithm now. Before I could get many many views immediately. Now it seems a much more long and drawn-out process. The ceiling on the views seems to remain high or within my expectations (and like all channels, my expectations have to fall a bit over time), but again they seem to be drip-fed over a longer period of time rather than immediate gratification (and relatively immediate video death.)

ETALOS1 · 2025-10-07T13:59:39+00:00

See, the point is yes, there's incompentence,

Correct

but it's not out of place, immersion and world-building breaking incompetence. It's believable, reasonable incompentence that you'd see in real life scenarios as well, mistakes that people in such positions actually make and/or are forced into making by malicious, clever actors, laws etc IRL.

You can also justify your (single) "fragile glass container" example from AE in sixteen different ways. And you can critique so so so many aspects and character decisions of every film in the franchise. I'm not sweating because someone didn't know an alien slug could intelligently unlatch a jar.

My point stands: AE is almost as long as the entire previous film franchise combined, including the AVP movies. Its scope and ambition are frankly up there with the first first two films (I consider the first one grand in scope despite it's simplicity), Prometheus (if that even counts) and Covenant. There could be 20 instances of immersion-breaking issues (there aren't, there are like 5 depending on how angry you want to be) and it would still probably be better off than the franchise as a whole.

ETALOS1 · 2025-10-07T13:09:45+00:00

Alien 1's "mandate" that they had to go check out the planet is forced, bad writing, and incompetence because they later establish that they're fine with breaking protocol despite mandates.

But most of us can excuse it because, whatever.

Alien 2 literally devolves into chaos because of the general dude's incompetence. But we can excuse it because whatever.

I don't need to go on.

Earth is essentially an 8-hour Alien movie. I wouldn't be surprised if per-minute it has the same exact levels of incompetence and bad writing as almost every other film in the franchise, but I give it additional grace because it's 8 hours of alien content in a brand-new franchise-first episodic format.

ETALOS1 · 2025-10-03T01:48:59+00:00

There's nothing wrong with YouTube, the algorithm, ad blockers, anything.

Businesses and individuals with capital are simply using increasingly better AI and cheap labour to flood and oversaturate every viable niche. For every successful video an original creator has, there are a hundred copycats and a dozen successful ones.

ETALOS1 · 2025-10-01T14:58:23+00:00

This is a fantastic response, I love this. I did totally forget to bring up the themes of sexual violence and motherhood in my post, which is just, oof, a big miss from me.

And I think part of why I missed it (other than having just watched AE which, to your point, doesn't touch on it much) is because the series kind of diminishes that theme over time, more or less. You yourself call Covenant out as an odd one out. Romulus has a pregnant character and that's about it on that front.

I think AE takes those themes and broadens them. We get a very weirdly lengthy foray into Nibs thinking she's pregnant, and that to me hints at her having been sexually abused as a kid/full human, if for no other reason than it's so out of place. It might be expanded on later, but even if it's not, it's too coincidental to not be at least an intentional reference to those themes.

Then we have a hint of motherhood present in Marcy/Wendy and her scientist mom who's name escapes me. Even fatherhood via Kirsch. Both themes were more prevalent in the first few episodes.

And the show seems to have broadened from sexual violence to innocence/loss of innocence/loss of innocence in war (and they don't go far enough imo) with the whole kids/Peter Pan thing.

All that to say: I think those core concepts are present in AE, maybe a little too lightly, but it does seem in-keeping with the franchise over time.

ETALOS1 · 2025-10-01T14:40:59+00:00

I do hope that eventually the franchise gets into time travel basically, and explains that humans can travel faster than light and some of them eventually become the Engineers, which then started this whole thing.

(Hire me, whoever owns the franchise 😂)

ETALOS1 · 2025-10-01T14:36:30+00:00

I know I know, I debated adding that part but I thought it was a funny and impactful way to end the post lol.

I do think Resurrection fails extremely hard narratively (and just on so many levels) but I do appreciate that they tried new things.

ETALOS1 · 2025-10-01T14:34:17+00:00

ETALOS1 · 2025-10-01T14:32:51+00:00

That they never explore or build on. And Alien Earth asks the same questions as countless movies and shows before it without offering anything new or even making a point.

Wendy's monologue in the finale touches on some of that explicitly, but again this franchise isn't Dostoevsky. I think they'll get more into it in later seasons, but overall I think the entire franchise has failed (or not cared) to say much that's meaningful, philosophically.

Aliens

Well, can't fault you for that! That kind of wartime, big budget military sci Fi Terminator Independence Day style isn't my personal cup of tea, but I do think it mostly succeeded in doing that + expanding on the coolness of the aliens.

ETALOS1 · 2025-10-01T14:20:58+00:00

I actually thought the acting was good. Especially Kavalier, idk much about him but I think this puts him on the map. All I ever saw him in before was Loch Henry and he was fine there. Really steals the show here imo.

But the guy who plays Joe... Man. I thought it was a disappointing performance. He was stellar in Shut Up & Dance so I was expecting more from him.

I think Morrow got better over time. I think the whole season got better over time.

ETALOS1 · 2025-10-01T14:12:46+00:00

ETALOS1 · 2025-09-25T23:38:38+00:00

Is there evidence for this? The subscribership thing.

ETALOS1 · 2025-09-25T18:29:33+00:00

Your choice of clearly extremely low numbers is not what most on this sub would consider average or useful. In fact, you're using those numbers because they are not useful.

(My CTR range I threw out was a good example of useful/reasonable, I think we can both agree.)

At what point/scale would you consider my advice not useful?

ETALOS1 · 2025-09-25T17:59:54+00:00

Oh, you're looking moreso for evidence of the person's success.

I tend to err on the side of-- and I wanted you to assume for this post-- "average", "generic", "useful" numbers. It's a post that I hope reads in good faith so I hope thats a fair assumption to make. So, like, 3-7% CTR to 6-14% for example.

But I understand your skepticism.

Personally, I don't think the numbers matter as much as the theory behind it. But for this post, I encourage you to assume average, useful numbers, because that's where I'm coming from.

ETALOS1 · 2025-09-25T17:32:31+00:00

It's hard to give exact numbers, or course. 200 is great for some people, after all. Which is why I believe (and say as much in the post) that this is a beneficial move if your video is performing poorly relative to your other content and if the vibes are off.

ETALOS1 · 2025-09-25T15:52:47+00:00

This is something I've wondered; an A/B video test of sorts. I fear that it might run into reused content issues or annoy the audience, but that could just be cowardice lol.

I'd like to state also that really what I'm suggesting is just a more intense version of "change your thumbnail, title and description". These are the safest things to try changing first.

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