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by KhanMahGretsch 2985 days ago
There are also innumerable CG videos on YouTube, targeting children, which appear to be algorithmically generated. Using a combination of popular kids characters (Elsa, Spider-man, etc.) and ostensibly canned animations, the results are often strange, bizarre, and even entirely inappropriate for the intended audience.

The phenomenon is referred to as "Elsagate"[0]; be forewarned, it's pure nightmare-fuel.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate

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There is also an entire genre of children's nursery rhyme videos and toy videos which are not so obviously inappropriate, but which also have an uncanny algorithmic quality to them - I remember seeing those before I even heard of Elsagate.
Sorry for self-replying, but I remember what I was referring to now, the "Finger Family" type videos[0] particularly Toys in Japan[1] who is apparently now streaming Fortnite.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NceTdz8KlYU

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_oSI23s8qw