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What the hell is happening on Youtube lmao (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago by BeanisBrain@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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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

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[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

I rail against those little vignettes people post which seem to star aliens with no redeeming features who only exist to fawn over humans (or be righteously destroyed by them). Even if it doesn't come from fascists, that sort of supernatural racism winds up being fascist adjacent or leading towards fascism. But it also just seems kinda pathetic to write a short story where the only interaction is for some alien to say "You're so beautiful. And tough. And can run long distances. By gum, you're amazing."