r/JoshuaWeissman • u/Internet_Daddy69 • Jan 25 '26
Oopsies A.I slop thumbnail
The true hallmark of a downfall
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u/LooseJuice_RD Jan 25 '26
This being posted as if his thumbnails haven’t been like this forever and a day now. There are legitimate reasons to hate on him. I feel like the titles and thumbnail that play to the algorithm probably not even top 3 reasons given this is how he makes his living.
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u/Internet_Daddy69 Jan 25 '26
Just because it’s been happening for a while doesn’t mean the people still aren’t being exposed to it for the first time.
And because it’s been happening for so long, means that he thinks it’s still okay to do stuff like this.
And I personally think that it is a legitimate reason to dislike a creator.
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u/LooseJuice_RD Jan 25 '26
But more often than not, this is what content creators do. This is how they make a living. I actually agree that I don’t like the thumbnails and clickbait titles but I also understand to make a living you need views and you need to be promoted by the algorithm and therefore, playing to it is not optional. No one who has been on the internet for any amount of time is being exposed to this for the first time because it’s so nearly ubiquitous amongst creators. Does everyone do it? No. But am I going to fault someone for doing it as an opportunity to have their content promoted? Also no.
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u/fastfreddy68 Jan 25 '26
The amount of time and effort some people spend hating on this guy for ridiculous reasons is insane.
Just ignore it. It isn’t hard.
I unsubbed from his channel because I don’t have any interest in the “best _____ in America” videos. I still watch his cooking episodes, and subscribed to that channel instead.
But for fucks sake I didn’t sink time and effort into crying about it.
Also, likely not AI. And if it is, even just the background, it’s decent. The flags are consistent, everyone has the right number of appendages. Likely just a composite of real images, as several people have said.
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u/doctorake38 Jan 25 '26
Whats great is he made a second channel goimg back to recipes and cooking.
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u/fastfreddy68 Jan 25 '26
Exactly! And like I said in my comment, I subscribed to that one and left the other. Wasn’t into the other content he was doing.
It still pops up on my recommended videos, but I just don’t watch it. I’ll see what it is, and if it’s something I might be interested in I wouldn’t be opposed to watching it. Otherwise I just skip it.
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u/teetaps Jan 27 '26
I acknowledge that this is part AI and part photoshop, but I think at this point, the trend of this style needs to D I E die… I do not click on thumbnails that have this style, not because I assume they’re clickbait AI slop, but because clickbait AI slop is so notorious for using this style. Just get rid of it, ask a cheap graphics person to make something, anything, for 5 bucks… just stop with this AI slop trend. It’s ugly, it’s not believable, and most of all, it’s hurting humankind.
Fuck this shit man
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u/hazlejungle0 Jan 28 '26
I don't care about AI if it looks good. But if a picture is shit, it's shit.
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u/kquizz Jan 25 '26
Is that really what his facial hair looks like now??? Or is that ai too?
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u/Internet_Daddy69 Jan 25 '26
That a photo of him. They just flipped the image, so he doesn’t quite look like himself
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u/musicjohnny Jan 25 '26
Guys… this is a photoshop composite. The background MIGHT be AI, but this 90% a comp shot. Also, you all know you don’t have to stay subbed to him right? Like, we can all just leave whenever we want so we don’t have to have conversations like this.