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Beep beep. It's time to talk about Ray William Johnson. Now, if you don't already know, Ry is a [snorts] huge YouTuber and kind of has been one for some time. In fact, he was the number one most subscribed YouTuber from mid
JJJacksfilms critiques Ray William Johnson's daily true crime videos, arguing their heavy reliance on AI-generated visuals and narration is disrespectful to real victims and killers.
Key Takeaways
- Ray William Johnson's true crime channel relies heavily on AI-generated visuals, which the host finds visibly flawed and disrespectful to real people.
- Using euphemisms like 'unalive' to evade platform filters trivializes murder and suicide.
- Creators can cover true crime responsibly without generative AI, and the host sees the reliance as a choice rather than a necessity.
- Heavy reliance on AI slop raises broader concerns about replacing human artists and normalizing that trend.
What the video covers
- The video, by JJJacksfilms, examines YouTuber Ray William Johnson's pivot from Equal Three and Martian content into daily true crime videos that have grown huge on TikTok and Facebook.
- The host plays a clip with the sound muted and shows AI artifacts such as melting hands, extra fingers, garbled text, and distorted money, claiming the videos are filled with AI-generated imagery.
- Johnson reportedly tells viewers his images come from Leonardo.ai, and the host calls the visuals sludgy and jarringly wrong, compiling about 11 minutes of such moments.
- The host argues that using AI to depict real victims and killers in a comic-book style is off-putting and disrespectful.
- He criticizes the euphemism 'unalive' used to get past TikTok's content filters, calling it infantilizing when applied to murder and suicide.
- A segment covers an AI-generated murder depiction and a dispute over AI-cloned voices, which the host finds invasive.
- The host says he is not against true crime itself, only against doing it tactfully and well, and argues Johnson could tell these stories without generative AI.
- The critique extends to a broader concern that AI replacing artists normalizes corporate cost-cutting, citing examples like the Blue Jays and BrainPOP.
- Live chat reactions are mixed, with some viewers hearing the muted content differently and others suspecting bots in the comments.
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2011 to early 2013. Maybe you're familiar with his Equal Three series that kind of launched him, catapulted him into YouTube stardom. It was like a little clip show. Or maybe you remember your favorite Martian, his little musical project. Now, it's no secret
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that I haven't always been the biggest fan of Rey, but to his credit, a few years ago, he pivoted into the world of true crime and odd stories that happened to real people. And as you can see, it
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has paid off big time. He still gets pretty consistent, healthy, solid views on his YouTube channel. This is daily, by the way. Okay, he uploads daily, but where he's really blown up is on Tik Tok. Dude is bigger now than he's ever
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been. He has 21 million followers, and most of his videos get over a million views, if not several millions of views, just ridiculous numbers. He also uploads to Facebook and gets crazy views there.
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And like I said, he uploads daily. Oh, look, he uploaded one today. He uploaded a video today called She should be dead.
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Well, how marvelous. Let's watch a little of this, shall we? This video is all about Christa Pike, who you may have seen in the news. She recently survived a botched execution. And by the way, I don't think there's anything wrong with
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covering true crime stories if it's done tactfully, if it's done right and done well. So, let's see how Ry does it. I'm going to mute the Ray. We're just going to watch until something happens. And I just want to see like, can you spot it?
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Can you You know where this is going. I know you know where this is going. But anywh who, we're going to play some of this video. Let me know if you spot it.
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And I have it on mute, so you're not going to you're going to see this man talk, but you won't hear anything because I don't think it's relevant to what I'm trying to show.
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Uh oh. Okay. Well, I better not better not do it again. Uh oh. All right. Well, two times. That's, you know, that's not so that's not so bad.
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It's not like he's gonna Oh, man. Uh oh. A does he do this the whole video? Huh?
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He just uploaded this today. Is this what he typically does? Oh, no. This This one's really good. Hey, did you did you see it? Did you notice it? Could you tell? A lot of people in the chat are
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saying AI, huh? Wait, how can you be so sure? You guys think this is AI?
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What? Ray would never. I agree. I think it's also AI. How can I tell? Later on in this very video uploaded today, uh, this woman's, um, hands have meldted together, which is fine. I think, I don't know, maybe her hands can just do
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that. But that's just one example. Here's a clip from a different video uh, where this dude chilling by the fire has uh, seven fingers on his right hand. And no, I checked. He doesn't actually in real life. Here's a cool shot of money
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that doesn't look like money. I don't think I don't think Bill's just like cut in half like that. I don't know. Maybe I've just never seen a stack of bills like that before. Here's a fun shot. Guy drinking benadryil. Right. And then Oh,
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is that is that how it's pronounced? Benadurgy. That's weird because like in the early on the same clip, it's spelled correctly, but then it's spelled Benadurgy. That's so weird. I think he's filled his videos with gobs and gobs of
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AI. Oh, Benaderie is the off brandand. Got it. I'm sorry. I didn't realize. So, by the way, Ray has been doing this now for for years. for years. Um, he's been uploading these true crime videos where half [snorts] the videos are just AI
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generated visuals as he narrates. You want to know how else I know this is AI?
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He tells us, "How do I make the videos that I make with all these crazy characters and images like this one and this one?" And well, they're not characters. They're they're real people cuz these are all true crime stories. And Jesus, look how
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sludgy this looks. I actually didn't pause on this. Las Vegas is missing an S there. Las Vegas. Ray, how do you how do you make all these cool, sickass visuals for your videos, man?
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This one. So, I get asked this all the time. How do you make these images? Is it AI?
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Well, the short answer is yes. So, let me walk you through exactly how me and my team do this and anyone can do this.
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Like, I'm nobody special. All right. So, go up here. Go to leonardo.ai. [laughter] That's the one I use.
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So, it's leonardo.ai according to this video. So, he uploads daily and these videos just have gobs and gobs of generated AI visuals. What's funny is that every once in a while it won't just be a slideshow of AI images.
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You'll get like six seconds of really sludgy, really rough looking AI movies. Here's one from a video he uploaded 3 days ago. Like, ooh, don't like that. Don't like that. And then this is great. This makes no sense.
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Like, fram frame he her. Yeah. Like I think I have another example. Oh, this one's cool. All right, get ready for this. This one's really sick. Ready?
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Every once in a while, you'll get like a few seconds of just the most gobbled garbled, jarringly wrong looking fluid AI motion. And in fact, to illustrate just how much AI this person uploads on his channel, I've clipped 11 pure
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minutes of just these really off-putting visual moments from dozens of his videos. That's supposed to be Kim Kardashian, by the way. We'll talk about that later. You can make a 11 minute video just from like going over a
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few months of this. [laughter] That's how I type, right? It's [gasps] just gobs and gobs of this stuff. Maybe it's just me, but I think there's something a little weird and icky and gross using AI visuals to depict real victims and
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real killers and turning them into this comic book style aesthetic. You know, I just Is that how you guys write?
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[laughter] Do you write on top of your words? Are you dipping into the ink while it's not there? [laughter] I didn't even see this. And it's not just the AI visuals that I find hyper disrespectful. That's a big part of it.
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Because Rey is uploading these videos to not just YouTube, but Tik Tok. And because he wants to stay monetizable and profitable, he falls into that weird cringy pattern and tradition that true crime creators already know all about where he says something like this in a
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video. This is a video about a man who has survived many um lightning strikes.
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Like truly, this is a true account of a man who literally who actually genuinely survived multiple lightning strikes throughout his life. And this is how Ry ends the video.
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He decides that he's finally ready to die and he unalivives himself. Got to be honest. But if I were to ever uh, you know, commit suicide and someone online refer to my death as unaliving myself, I would haunt them forever.
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Like, you're getting haunted. I I I hate with every fiber of my being the usage and normalization of terms like unal alive. And we're talking about like real people. By the way, this is a man who actually died. And I
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just I hate the tick tock language of it all. I understand why it's used. It's so they can like get past the sensors. But it's still like this is a man's life.
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And that's not a one-time thing either. Uh hold on. I have a lovely montage for you. bread finally just unalivives himself. Still convinced that Domino's is out to get him and he sadly unalivives himself. And Sammy, he actually unalivives himself in jail. A
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few hours later, he's sitting in a jail cell and there he unalivives himself, gets a pistol, and he unalivives himself. I I I cannot stand the infantilization of, you know, murder and suicide. I acknowledge why creators like Ry have to do this or think they
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have to do this, but like Jesus Christ, it's just it's it's it's so gross to me.
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I don't know. I find it again just disrespectful. Put it in the disrespectful box along with, you know, just the whole fact that we're using AI to this ludicrous amount. Exactly. Say kill, say suicide, say death and die and
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Like, just say it. Just say it. I will say though, I don't think those are the worst endings he's ever done. I think it's this.
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And 10 years later, Larry unfortunately shot himself and he died. And a huge shout out to Leonardo.
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For sponsoring this video. If you want to make really cool art for your videos or just for your life like this or like this, then sign up for leonardo.ai.
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Holy whiplash, Batman. That video you just saw was brought to my attention by Popcore90 on Twitter. And when they sent this to me, my first uh knee-jerk reaction was, "There's no way this is real." I think it's very possible
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someone could have just edited those two clips. He's not even wearing the same shirt, right? I think those are two separate clips that someone maliciously put together to make Ray William Johnson look bad. Thankfully, Popcore included the title of the video so I could look
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this up. Now, here's where it gets interesting. This is the full YouTube video that's still up. This was uploaded December. Oh, Day after Christmas. Oh, just like that Ben Folds Brick song.
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2024. All right. So, this video is almost 2 years old. And we're going to skip to the end here.
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Later, Larry unfortunately shot himself and he died. And that's how it ends. All right. So, you're like, "Oh, so Ray never followed up with that, right?
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Let's read the comments, shall we?" Because, uh oh, the comments tell a very interesting story. This is from a year ago. And Larry, unfortunately, shot himself and he died. A huge shout out [laughter] to Mood Change surprised me a
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lot. So, he delete So, Ray deleted this post upload. But, isn't that cool? Just that tonal whiplash. He unfortunately died. Huge shout out to Leonardo.
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For sponsoring this video if you want to make epic images like this and this and this. How sick is that, right? Larry unfortunately shot himself. Anyway, shout out to Leonardo DiCaprio for sponsoring. He definitely clipped out the uh the sponsor at some point. Maybe
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it was making the rounds and he was like, "Ooh, that's not a good look. I should probably get rid of that." So, let's talk a little bit about Leonardo.
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They've sponsored a number of his videos in the past. Here's a cool ad read this.
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Uh, when did this come out? February of last year, 2025. This Austin Powers actor is in prison now.
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Shelly finally gets the justice she deserves. Good for her. And a huge shout out to Leonardo.
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For sponsoring this video, if you make videos and you want to make really badass art for those videos LIKE THIS OR LIKE THIS, LIKE [screaming] LOOK AT HOW COOL THAT IS. Sign up for Leonard.
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So badass. I know what I'm doing today. I'm signing up to Leonardo. Slop, dude, that's so sick. Do you want to make AI slop? That is the most obvious ass looking AI slop. Like the cat in the in the the hoodie. Holy
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with our sponsor, dude. All this AI slot makes me want to unalive myself, huh?
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safe, ahead of crime, in real time. Here's a very recent video from Ry talking about the American Idol contestant that was just recently found guilty of murder. I was really curious about this one because one of the few
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things I know about this case was that in court they actually played AI slot music that the defendant had made for his mistress. And it's hilarious because you can see everyone in court like stifling their laughter and cringe. So,
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I'm bringing all of this to your attention because I was very curious to see how Rey would cover that given how he uses Gen AI art so gratuitously every day in his videos. How was he going to pivot um and make fun of the
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defendant for having his AI music being blasted in a public setting? I'm like, where's Ray going to go with that?
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Because he's making AI slop. I do like how the AI pictures look less and less like the actual American Idol singer singer. Like there kind of looks like him, but then like the more we scrub through it's like that's not what he
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looks like. THAT'S THAT'S A DIFFERENT GUY. That's a different man from from [laughter] THAT'S A DIFFERENT MAN ALTOGETHER. Are you sorry? I love AI slap so much. Oh, AI forever. Hell yeah, dude. All right, we're getting to the the real part of
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this real story where the defendant, the American Idol singer, makes AI uh uh love ballads to his mistress. Ray, how do you describe AI music while using gratuitous amounts, copious amounts of AI art? How do you categorize it, Ray
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William Johnson? He even writes her corny love songs using AI to try and win her back. And he like sends them to her.
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I agree, Ry. It is corny. It's very corny [snorts] [laughter] to use AI to make art. I think it's corny as hell. That's Ray. I know we don't see eye to eye a lot, but uh that's something we can agree on. It's
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very, very corny. Such a Yeah, what a hypocrite. Everyone in the chat is calling you a hypocrite, Ray. But while we're here, before we talk about Ray's hypocrisy, I want to talk about something that uh is also weirdly disrespectful that he does a
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lot. We're about to see a murder um be depicted through the wondrous art form that is AI slot, but also Ray's narration and Caleb gets his gun and he sneaks in the room and blam blam, he shoots her.
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Blam blam. Why do we need sound effects? Like why why do we need Foley for that?
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Blam blam. Is that how you narrate true crime stories? And blam blam. She died now. One instance would be weird, but fine. Would you be shocked? You wouldn't be shocked. You know where this is going.
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Blam. Blam. Blam. He shoots True Boy. He loves his blam blams. Can't remember if I have any more. Oh yeah. Oh, this is the same video. Sorry, I didn't realize this the same video. Later on, bam, he hits another guy and he keeps
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going. Blam, blam, blam, blam, blam. Then suddenly, out of nowhere, pow! Sasha hits him on the head with a pow! He hits her with a vodka bottle.
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It's a comic book. Like, we're we're turning these horrific actual acts of violence and murder into comic books.
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And that's sick as hell, dude. But this one's my favorite. Plummet straight down faster and faster.
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And then kaboom, it crashes. And tragically, he did not have to say kaboom. You He did not have to say kaboom. And more than that, I want you to listen carefully. This is where I'm like, Jesus Christ, was that really necessary, Ray?
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It's not just the kaboom. There's a And you have to you have to really like turn up your uh your speakers, your your headphones, however you're listening to this right now. I swear to God, there's a Tom and Jerry scream sound effect at
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the um instance of the explosion. You think I'm joking? I swear to God, turn up your sound devices and then kaboom, it crashes. Do you hear that? It's like one of those like It's like one of those screams. It's that Mel
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Blanc like boom. Do we need do we need the Hannah Barbara sound effects for a plane crash that killed multiple people?
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The live chat's mixed. A lot of people are saying, "I didn't hear it." And then some people are saying, "In all caps, I heard it." That's what I hear. I hear Tom from Tom and Jerry.
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I don't think you guys appreciate the sheer volume of AI slop Mr. William Johnson not only puts out, but has been putting out. And I did a very uh very basic calculation. Let's say over the last two years he's been uploading
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around 8 minute long um true crime shorts 365* 2 so 730 days multiply that by four because if we say that around half of all of his 8 minute long true crime stories are just AI art like visually speaking right if you turn off
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the volume you just look at it half of that is just the AI slop so around four minutes of every eight minute video so if you multiply 730 days times four minutes you get 2920 20 minutes. 2,920 minutes. Divide that by 60 to get hours.
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And over the last 2 years, Mr. William Johnson has put out 48.667 hours straight hours over two full days of nothing but AI slop. Imagine two full days. 48 plus hours. That's really cool.
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Of this That's what he's been busy doing. busy. Huge quotes around the word busy. Over the last two years, bro has put out two full days of this fireworks.
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Anywh who, I just TNT. Wait, isn't that how that AC/DC song goes? Cuz I'm TNT.
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[laughter] Anywh who, that's our Ray. The bright side to watching so many hours of Ray William Johnson AI slop videos was that I started to notice some trends. One in particular is that whatever AI slop Ry uses really really likes the color
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purple and they like putting multiple groups of people in purple. Here's a lovely family portrait where every almost everyone's in purple. editor, throw in that Eric Andre clip where he goes, "But what if it were purple?" Yo, what if these boys were purple?
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Yo, what if this family were purple? What if this family were purple? What if all these kids were wearing purple? What if all these kids were wearing purple?
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What if these adults were wearing purple? Or these adults? [laughter] Look, I love how beautifully synchronized. Cop. Cop. Purple. Cop.
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Cop. Oh, hell no. Purple. Oh, hell no. It literally says, "Oh, hell no. [laughter] Too much purple." Oh, she's mad that she's purple. These boys are proud that they're purple.
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They're a little confused about being purple. Dude, I love AI slot, man. Yo, what if it were purple? Also, another fun little uh pattern um or at least somewhat of a trend. Sometimes AI will just clone the same person. So,
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here's three of the same cop, which is cool. This is from, you know, Ray's one of his true crime stories. And here's 20 of the same cop. Slightly different hair colors, but they all have that lovely invincible universe mustache. AI loves
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recognizing trends and patterns and um executing on them for people. Can we briefly go back to Ray's hypocrisy in regards to AI? Remember earlier in the video when he was criticizing and making fun of that American Idol singer for
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using AI to write music while Rey was using AI to make all of his visuals.
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Well, the hypocrisy doesn't end there. It actually doesn't start there. I found this um fantastic video by YouTuber Friendly Neighborhood Artist with their video big YouTuber caught being a hypocrite about AI.
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Uh-oh. And they are indeed talking about our dear old boy Ray Bill Johnson. And by the way, huge kudos to Friendly Neighborhood Artist for putting this together. Thank you so much for doing your due diligence and research. But
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friendly neighborhood artist points out that a while ago, Ry commented on someone else's video and he called them out for using AI to clone his voice to clone Ray's voice. And I think you can even hear some of it here
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to see you can hear the voice. Oops. What actually happened to the exclusive McDonald's gold card? Because Okay, we don't need to hear any more than that.
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Yeah, it's very much Ray's voice. Exactly. And this is Ry himself commenting on this person's video going, "Please don't clone my voice for your videos. Not cool." And I'm going to sound like AI myself when I say this
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next bit, but and honestly, M Dash Ry is totally in the right here. All right, I'm not going to be defending Ry a lot uh in general, but I will defend him here. Like, he is totally in the right for calling out this channel
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uh for cloning his voice with AI. That's creepy. That's off-putting. It's invasive. Like, Ray's totally in the right here. And like, this is one of the three times ever that I will agree with Ray on something. Like, yeah, don't use
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AI to clone someone else's voice like without their consent. That's uh a little creepy. Which is why I ask you, Ry, why in God's green earth would you think this is okay?
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Remember that time Kim Kardashian got robbed at gunpoint? I do, Rey. I sure do. So, this is 6 minutes into a video that has continuously been showing AI gen photos of Kim Kardashian. And then it cuts to this
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guns pointed at her. So, she tells them to take whatever they want and that she needs to live because she has kids.
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Do you think that's a very flattering depiction of Miss Kardashian, of the Kim Kardashian? Also, it looks nothing like her, which is weird. So, I just really want to point out that Rey is against anyone cloning using his voice,
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using AI to uh duplicate and replicate Ray's own voice, which is totally valid, by the way. But Rey has zero qualms at all of this uncanny, greasy, creepy AI gen depiction of Kim Kardashian. He has no qualms about that.
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That's where I find yet another instance of Ray's hypocrisy. Ry says, "Huh, don't clone my voice. Don't use AI to represent me in a false way." Here he is using AI to represent Kim Kardashian in a false way.
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Isn't that fun? Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Meow. Meow. Cupcakes. Their first chat is so brilliant. They their first time chat ever is quote, "Rules for thee, but not for me." Exactly.
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[laughter] Have you Have you considered maybe Ry would be okay with someone making an AI vid of him all oily like that? You know, honestly, I haven't. I didn't consider that. And that's on me. Maybe maybe Ry would have been a-ok okay with someone
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depicting him all oily and tied up just like that. I never I never considered that. You're exactly right.
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Maybe he's totally cool with that. Anyh who, that's a very funny point. The rules. There's a video Ry uploaded at some point all about Keenan Thompson. If you don't know Keenan Thompson, Keenan Thompson is a current Saturday Night Live star and has been in
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the SNL cast for like 20 plus years. He was also a Nickelodeon star if you grew up watching him on All That and Keenan and Kell classic like Nickelodeon shows.
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So Ray William Johnson made an AI video all about Keenan Thompson and I wrote down in my notes that he looks less and less like Keenan Thompson as the video progresses. This SNL star lost everything. So let's see how AI warps
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Keenan Thompson's face. So there and there he is from Good Burger. Keenan Thompson. Okay, Kenan is a kid and that's fine. I mean, it's not fine. It's AI, but like whatever. But like, as the video progresses, he will age. So, let's
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keep going. I love the AI pictures of Kenan as a as a kid, as a high schooler.
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Who is that? That's not Kenan. That [laughter] Okay, wait a minute. Is that supposed to be Kenan? He's never looked like that.
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That's not Kenan either. Kenan's never looked like this. I don't know who's like, that's not Keenan. That's a brand new individual. That's Kanye West, dude.
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That's not Look at that. That's not Keenan. Keenan's never looked like this ever. That's really not Kenan. It's Tom Cruz on the right. Here's the deal.
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Sometimes um Ray's team, quote unquote, they'll sneak in like celebrity cameos. So like I do think that is supposed to look like Tom Cruz. There's an old video he puts John C. Riley as one of the cops. And it's cute, you know, even
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though it's AI. So this is I think this is Ray's team or Ry himself, whatever, putting Tom Cruz in as as a lawyer.
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Anywh who, that's not Keenan. That's not Kenan. That's Keenan, but that's not Keenan. That's the fault with using AI.
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Sometimes it is wildly inconsistent to the point where the person is no longer recognizable. That was not Kenan Thompson. So, here's the thing. I think I still need to emphasize not just the volume of AI slop Ray's been outputting, but more importantly
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how reliant he has become upon AI slop. I mean total reliance, leaning on it, depending upon it. Ray isn't one of those channels where he dips his toes in the AI waters. Ray's a mile deep in the AI slop ocean. He would not have
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a channel today if it weren't for AI slop. And I mean it. Like seriously, take away all of the AI slop in Ray's videos.
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You wouldn't have content because he is so reliant on these AI visuals to tell the story for him. He cannot do what he does without AI.
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Or rather, he chooses not to. Cuz here's where it gets weird. If you go back far enough into Ray William Johnson's catalog of videos, and I mean really back, like not months, but years back, you find something really interesting
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that kind of puts this whole thing into perspective. Ry wasn't always like this. He wasn't. Here's a video from 3 years ago, July of 2023. I can't stand this woman. It's not exactly true crime, but it's Ray's signature style of
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storytelling. And look at this. I'm scrubbing through the video. What do you not notice? AI slop. He's narrating this story of about an individual in, you know, in extraordinary circumstances.
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And he's not relying upon AI slop. Huh. So, wait, he can do this? Interesting.
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I'm not going to lie, I tried to pinpoint the exact moment where he turns to the dark side, where he turns to using AI slop. I found like a weird middling point here. Here's a video uh uploaded in November of 2023, a little
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later than what we just saw. This preacher has a secret, and I think this is one of the moments where Ry starts to dip his toes into the AI waters. H.
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Now, is this AI gen or is this actually from a comic book? I think it's AI gen.
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And then that's definitely AI gen because look at the uh telephone wires like oh they just kind of disappear.
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Keep in mind it's 2023. AI is not quite, you know, where it's at today. You can definitely tell when it's AI. That's absolutely AI.
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Uh also AI. Ooh, he's starting to dip his toes into the AI waters. I don't want to really put a time frame on it, but if you if you had to gun to my head, it would be around this time late 2023
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where he starts experimenting uh with ooh what if I can use AI to aid me in the storytelling aspect so it's not just you know me talking to a camera what if I were to disguise my storytelling [laughter]
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with AI delightfully devilish Johnson and this is some rough looking AI. This is going back a couple years. Woof. Oh, whoa. Oh, no. The fingers are melting.
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Wait, when did this come out? This came out uh two years ago. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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Over two years ago. Back when AI art really looked like AI art. [snorts] [laughter] Death. Jesus. So, we kind of pinpointed the moment where Ry experiments with AI in his true crime slash weird people stories. So, I have a
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question for you guys. Why does Ry get a pass? And I mean it. He's been doing this for years. He has been making true crime stories filled with AI slop. AI slop. It's not just filled with AI slop.
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AI slop is doing the heavy lifting for his narration. Why does he get a pass for this, do you think? Because when you go to the comments section of any of his recent videos, like let's Hey, let's try
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it right now. Let's go to his latest video. Here we go. The one on Christa Pike, right? His latest video as of right now. As of October 13th, 2026.
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If you go to the comment section, no one's talking about the AI slop of it all. All the comments are all about, you know, the alleged killer. They're all like, "Yeah, boo her." It's all like, "You can't tell me that's not a demon. I
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heard she killed her inmate in prison, so evil death is avoiding her, etc., etc., etc. No one is talking about the AI. Everyone's talking about like, yeah, bad person, bad. So, I'm asking you guys, why do you think that is? Probably
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bots. I don't think it's bots. Some people in my chat are saying it's bots.
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I'm I'm not accusing Ray of using bots. Hey, dude, I'll accuse him of many things. I'm not necessarily accusing the dude uh or his team of using bots. Um I don't think that's it. His audience doesn't care. People just don't care. I
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think we're getting closer. Deleting comments. I don't think he's even deleting comments. He could, sure, potentially. But can I share my theory with you since you've all shared your theories with me? I have a theory and it has quite a bit to do uh with the main
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editor of this channel of the Juda Jackson's channel, Shawn the Uniballer, who is likely editing this video right now. My boy Shawn was recently on television this week. No, really. He was on Justice for the People with Judge
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Million, which is one of those live TV court shows. Think like Judge Judy or any of these, right? Like that's him.
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Like that's Shawn or excuse me, Rex. [laughter] Shawn is one of my editors. He's the main editor for Judge Jackson films.
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He's also a content creator, an actor in his own right. He's a very talented actor and you can watch him at Bridal Blowout Justice for the People with Judge Million. It's legit. Like, sorry, I just want to play a snippet and then
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we're going to go in the comments, but I just want to play a snippet of this. If you want to watch the rest of this, you're going to have to click the link in the description below. It's so
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entertaining. Aaron surprised me. She was like, "Jack, can I show you a can I show you a movie?" I I got recommended to on TikTok. I'm like, "Yeah, sure." So, she airplays it on on the TV in front of us. And then I see this guy and
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I start howling with laughter. I'm like, "No way. That's Sean. I mean, Rex [laughter] on one of these reality TV court shows, right?" And I suggested that we go to a scenic uh cliff [laughter] to give a more dramatic backdrop for some
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additional photos for He's a wedding photographer, by the way. In in this video, he's he's he's arguing that as a wedding photographer, he had an impossible client and listens to your story and starts to hear.
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Did I breathe and give you the impression I was [laughter] sentenced? But I haven't finished.
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I haven't. Sean, you're living my dream. You're living my reality TV court dream. So, why am I showing you this?
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I'm really here to show you guys the comments section of this. I'm going to let you in on a secret.
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This it's not real. It's fake. It's staged. These actors are hired to, you know, be in these types of shows, right? But the average Joe Schmo, the viewers, they don't care, right?
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And why should they? The top comment rules, this Rex guy looks like he's gone way too deep into the lore of Adam Sandler movies. Yo, this person knows Ball. They know that Shawn has made the Sandler reverse parts one and
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two and everyone should watch those. But most of these comments don't know Ball. They don't know Shawn or Rex. Why does it sound like Becky was the issue and not the hair? Wow. The wedding defendant does not know when to shut up just
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because blah blah blah. What I'm trying to say is all of the comments, they're talking about the case. They're critiquing the defendant. You know, they're critiquing Tara. They're critiquing someone. And I have a really fun moment here. I commented on this
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video. I had to cuz it was too funny not to. I wrote, "Rex will never get my business. Justice for Terra." And then I got this awesome reply. What justice? She is responsible for her own actions. It's called being an adult.
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Stop being a troll. And I'm going to like that cuz it proves my point. And the point I'm making, the point I'm trying to make with this, like, why am I showing you this video with my friend and editor Sean in it?
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It's because the comment section, they care less about the substance of something. If there's a story, they're going to follow the story. They're invested in the story. They're invested in who's right, who's wrong. They're not thinking like, "Oh, it's a
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reality television program." Like, none of this is real. These are actors. They're hired for a gig. They're not thinking that. They don't care about that. They're invested. They're like, "Yeah, yeah, she is wrong. Yeah, yeah." Same thing with Ray's videos. They're not
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talking about the AI slop of it all. They're going, "Yeah, I hope he does rot." You know, like, "Yeah, he is wrong." If you don't believe me, read the comments. Here's the comment for this video, right? This guy
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is stupid AF. Worst part of betrayal never comes from enemy. Shame on Caleb. Dummy, he had it all. Mistress should go to jail as well. What I'm trying to say is it's about the cases themselves, the stories, and less about the substance,
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like where it's coming from. these viewers, the general um audience, they're not questioning the nature of what they're watching. They're invested in the storytelling of it all. They're like, "Yeah, I hope he does die in jail," you know, etc., etc. Some people
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in the chat are like, "No-brain activity." No, no, no. I'm not I don't want to fault anyone watching these videos. I'm not faulting the comment section in Ray's videos. I'm not faulting the comment section in that People's Court whatever the video
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with Shawn. The point I'm trying to make is that I don't mean to speak ill or even speak down to and condes like I I don't mean to say like, "Wow, these people are they're not very bright. They
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have low IQs." That's not really it. That's not it at all. But I'm focusing on the AI of it all. And I feel like most people aren't because they're invested in the true crimes of it all.
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And that's why true crime is such a huge, huge business. That's why there are so many true crime podcasts, true crime uh YouTube shows, and true crime documentaries released every single day on Netflix and Hulu and all the
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streaming platforms, right? Cuz it's big business. And rarely do you question where they come from. You being like the royal you, like you being the people who watch true crime documentaries in any form, whether it's an 8-minute Ray William Johnson video or
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a 90-minute Netflix documentary, doesn't matter. Unless it's really bad, you rarely question the substance and you fall in love with or fall into uh the story and the case and the justice of it all. You know, does the victim or
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victim's family get justice, etc., etc. That's my theory. That is my long- winded theory. on why so few people in the comment sections of Ray's videos are like, "Yo, this is AI slop. This is cringe." That's my theory. I don't
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think it's bots. I don't think he's blocking comments. Maybe he's doing both. I don't know. But that's my theory. And this brings me to my final point for this video. We have seen previously that Rey is perfectly capable
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of not using AI while making true crime stories or like weird people stories. He is perfectly capable of not relying upon Gen AI for narrative purposes. So, we saw it in this one if you remember like this is like this isn't like true crime,
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but this is a video where he tells a story, he presents a case and he doesn't use any gen AI in it, right? He uses meme clips, but it's mostly like footage of the incident. And that's great.
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That's fine. I think that's perfectly acceptable because you're not replacing artists with AI. But if you go far enough back in time on Rey's cursed YouTube channel, there are instances of him telling actual stories without leaning on AI. Is she wrong? Was kind of
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his first foray into this like new format, his like modern format. Let's go to this cop got suspended for this four years ago. 10. Scrub. Scrub. Scrub.
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Scrub. scrub. Oh, no. A It's very short, but there's no AI. Hey, good on Ray. He can tell a story without leaning on AI.
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Who knew? Let's see what else we got here. He faked his own death. Let's click on that. We was talking about a Tik Tok he saw.
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I unbelievable. Now, I'm going 10 seconds at a time here, but I don't see AI. So, Rey is capable of telling stories without leaning on Gen AI. How about this one? This huge Tik Tok star is in prison now. Okay. Almost three
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years ago, December of 2023. Oh, we actually might see Oh, okay. Okay. Uh oh, we've started dipping our toes in the AI here with the little AI generated image, but I think most of it Oh, That is extremely AI. Never
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mind. Jesus Christ, Ray. Okay. Yeah. All right. So even as early as December of 2023, we're becoming uh increasingly reliant upon the AI slop. Jesus. All right. So we pinpointed it. So around 3, four years ago. So four years ago, he's
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capable of telling stories without AI. Three years ago, he's like, I don't know. It's kind of cool. Two years ago, he needs it. One year ago, needs it.
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Yesterday, needs it. Tomorrow, he'll need it. What angers me about all of this? Like, why do I care that Rey uses AI slop at all? Right. Gosh, so many other people use it. It's the fact that his daily usage normalizes the trend. He
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is normalizing the trend of replacing artists with AI slop. We see corporations do it every day. What with the Blue Jays? What with Brain Pop? And it's very saddening. It's deeply saddening. It's worrying. And it's just depressing when these big corporations
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we've looked up to for years start like leaking in the AI slop. But now YouTubers and YouTubers used to be artists, but now YouTubers are doing this and they're allowing it.
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They're normalizing it. Ray normalizes it. He uses it every single day. Every single day he uploads a Tik Tok and you wouldn't know it from these thumbnails. But let's click on Hellboy over here. Is there AI in Hellboy?
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There sure is. Yeah. Uh, look at that. So, every single time Rey uploads [clears throat] a Tik Tok, Ry uploads a video on YouTube, Rey uploads a video on Facebook, he uploads a video that doesn't just use AI slop, but is like
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50% AI slop. That's the thing. That's what I meant earlier when I'm like, he's not just dipping the toes dipping his toes in AI. He's submerged a mile deep in the ocean of AI. That's how heavily he depends on it. He cannot make what he
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does today without AI. Or can he? Like Rey, I challenge you. I freaking I challenge you, Ray, dude. To continue with your true crime stories without the egregious usage of AI slop. Can you do it? I bet you can't, but it'd be cool if
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you did. You've shown the world that you can. You have shown us all that you can tell these true stories without the aid of Gen AI. So what happened? You get lazy, huh? What happened though? Like did you get lazy? Ray be so for
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real. Did you start using AI to this degree because you got a little lazy?
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You got a little complacent. You're like, "Well, I don't have to hire artists. I can hire fewer people uh by using AI slap." Like, why? What's the deal? I I mean, I know why. Oh Hold on. I'm getting a call from
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someone. I'm getting a call from Ray William Johnson. Hello. He's not lazy. He's cheap. [laughter] Oh, that's something I wrote in my notes, too. Yes, he's not lazy. He's cheap. Um because I was going to say like you may notice that the animation
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looks cheap. And that's because it is. It's cheaper than hiring animators. Exactly. That's I 100,000% think that's what it is.
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Ew, dude. That's two different dudes. pound out more content. He's not at the whim of the schedule of a a like artist.
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Why would I hire an artist if I can just, you know, upload this? Upload it at my own schedule.
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I don't need to wait for somebody to be done and I can do it for the cost of what a Yeah. a prompt is or whatever. A few prompts. Exactly. Isn't that so cool?
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He's not lazy. He's cheap. He's not l Well, I think I still want to call him lazy. I don't want to give him too much credit.
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Oh, sure. All right. Love you, baby. Bye. Bye, Ray. What I'm trying to say is pay some artists instead of posting this AI slop. I know you can afford it, man. AI, I think, is a wondrous tool that can help us with labor. It can help
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us in the creation process, but it really should not be replacing artists, especially when it comes to, you know, true crime stories and actual murderers and victims. Comes off as a little tonedeaf, wouldn't you say, Rey? And stop being so
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lazy. You've proven to us before that you don't need the AI art to tell captivating stories. You don't. So, what happened? Hey Ray, what happened? That's all. Buddha AI slop. Credit the creators and long live artists. I'm a oneman man
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with the dangerous [music] mind. I yell with a whisper. While my enemies dine, I'll kiss a man on the lips [music] and he tast
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