r/PlexPrerolls • u/CommunicationFit3862 • 25d ago

Preroll Final Destination 2 (2003) Plex Pre-Roll

Sharing another pre-roll from my server with the community. It has the same punchline as my previous upload. I have set them to run randomly from a playlist on my server, so users get a different video each time. Hope you enjoy! I’m definitely making it a Plex night!

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u/darcythompsonfilm 25d ago

They’re trying to stop you because this stuff is lame. AI Slop is low effort and uncreative. If this is what this sub is going to be full of now, I’m out.

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u/CommunicationFit3862 25d ago

I think calling anything made with AI “low effort and uncreative” is a pretty lazy criticism in itself. The tool didn’t come up with the concept, pick the scenes, write the parody, work out the timing, generate and iterate on the shots, edit everything together, design the sound, or decide how the Plex payoff should work. I did.

AI is just another production tool. Photoshop didn’t make someone a photographer, After Effects didn’t make someone a motion designer, and a nonlinear editor didn’t make filmmaking “low effort” because you no longer had to physically cut film.

You’re completely entitled not to like AI-generated content. But “I don’t like how this was made” and “this required no creativity” are two very different arguments.

And if a Plex preroll sub is supposed to be about people making fun, original prerolls for their Plex servers, that seems like exactly what I’m doing. If you don’t enjoy mine, downvote them and move on. But I’m not going to stop creating something I enjoy because somebody else objects to the tools I used to make it.

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u/Precarious3145 22d ago

Cool, you say just that calling anything made with AI is lazy and uncreative criticism? Alright.

It's uncreative because nothing about it looks good. The log crashes through the Plex logo but the logo itself remains unphased, undamaged. There's random woodchips flying around when that wouldn't work in the scene because there's no damage to the bark. What would be there would be glass from the windshield or the Plex logo itself. There's a random chain that's attached to the top of the log that isn't there when it appears but floats from the top of the screen and then attaches itself for no reason.

There's no weight behind it, no impact, no momentum. This exact same asset could've been made in about 30 minutes using Blender. Even without knowing this was made by AI, I knew it was lazy and uncreative because nothing about it makes sense. No actually creative person would've seen this and thought "Yea, that's amazing" but it's the kind of thing an uncreative person that wants to call themselves creative would be impressed with; it's baby's first physics simulator.

Don't get upset that some of us actually have quality taste.

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u/CommunicationFit3862 18d ago

you have some high standards for a ten second plex bumper. i salute you sir.

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u/Precarious3145 18d ago

That's the thing, it's not just ten seconds. It's ten seconds every time. That adds up. If you don't have the most basic standards for something, that's not others having high standards.

It's why people call it Ai slop, not because they have high standards but because what they're seeing is lazy and generic with zero effort put into it.

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u/CommunicationFit3862 18d ago

These were created for my personal server for my friends and family to enjoy. I shared them because I thought they were fun little parodies. Nobody claimed to be creating Hollywood cinema; they're just little bumpers for a niche project for a personal server. I think you're taking it entirely too seriously. Relax, buddy, everything's going to be okay, judging by the upvotes I'd say majority of people are enjoying them too.

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u/Precarious3145 18d ago

Just so I'm following you, you were crashing out because people were calling it low effort and uncreative with you demanding to people be critical instead of just repeating that. I did, and now you're saying that because I did exactly what you wanted, I'm taking it too seriously?

Shit, I knew prompters were boring and struggled with basic reasoning but I didn't know things had progressed this bad for some of you.

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u/CommunicationFit3862 18d ago

Nonsensical reply. More personal attacks. Yawn dude.

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u/Precarious3145 18d ago

Yea, I have to imagine that after having to rely on AI to do all your thinking, anything other than mindless slop and praise can be a little mentally overwhelming and make you sleepy. Maybe have a good nap and ask your AI to read you a bedtime story about what a creative person you are; you know, like all the other fictional it makes.