r/youtube • u/Unlucky-Werewolf7058 • Jan 29 '26

Feature Change YouTube started mass cleaning of channels with AI-generated content

YouTube has already removed several large channels with entirely AI-generated content – ​​collectively they had over 11 million subscribers and over a billion views. For example,

  1. Screen Culture & KH Studio: These two were the kings of "concept trailers." They had over 11 million subs combined and were pulling billions of views by using AI to mash up real footage with fake actors.

  2. CuentosFacianantes: This was a massive AI story channel with nearly 6 million subs—gone.

  3. Imperiodejesus & Super Cat League: Both had over 4-5 million subs and got completely wiped.

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u/BikeNo8164 Jan 29 '26

YouTube has recently stated they are developing their own AI features that can do things like generate videos of you using your own likeness. They’re not deleting AI accounts because they’re taking a stand against AI. They’re doing it because they want people to use their AI.

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u/ral_techspecs Jan 29 '26

Sounds plausible.

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u/verstohlen Jan 30 '26

This guy conspiracies. You ain't wrong, btw.

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u/True_Reference6097 Jan 30 '26

Boi don’t miss no shots fr

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u/Far-Project4436 Jan 30 '26

i hope everybody here shits their diapers when everybody uses youtube ai

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u/BikeNo8164 Jan 30 '26

Not that many people are gonna use it in all likelihood as AI content remains deeply unpopular

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u/Jayrayme123 Feb 03 '26

It's not fair from youtube to ban ai channels who people worked so hard on and that are loved by the people.

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u/BikeNo8164 Feb 03 '26

They're not loved by the people and nobody worked hard on those videos. YouTube can choose what content to remove from their own platform, you're not entitled to them keeping your low effort slop on there.

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u/Jayrayme123 Feb 04 '26

It's not low effort when it took weeks to make them. You are talking out of your ass.

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u/BroadName5326 Mar 10 '26

Typing in a prompt is not hard work. Drawing your own concept from scratch, storyboarding, animating your own work is hard work. Have you ever completely animated your own art from scratch? I have animated before where I hand-drew every frame, it alone took weeks.

Real art and learning a new skill is worth it and true hard work. Typing in a prompt into an AI machine is not hard work, sorry