Okay so Youtube started recommending these videos in a genre called “HFY” or “Humanity Fuck Yeah” which, as far as I can tell, involves AI narrators reading AI-generated stories over slideshows of AI-generated images and the stories are all military sci-fi where humans are the bestest warriors the galaxy has ever seen and kill stupid evil caricature aliens 1000:1. Once in a while there’s a story where an alien race does a massacre to humans which gives the humans an excuse to gloriously commit righteous genocide

Why is this a thing

Who asked for it

Who’s watching it

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    8 days ago

    It’s just america in space shit. Hooah USA USA USA military propaganda transcribed onto sci fi.

    It’s someone’s op. Who? Feds? Right wing think tank? Some secret society of bankers that know this shit is good for them? Military industrial complex? Take your pick, lots of possible groups.

    • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      8 days ago

      It’s not impossible that it’s an op, but from the information given I don’t think there’s any reason to believe it’s that rather than the expected market response to the consumption habits of a rancid culture that has long been cultivated by ops