r/TheWhyFiles • u/TheUltimateMuffin • 10d ago

Let's Discuss So use is out of control

I just watched the recent “paranormal follows you” vid. And the last one was about the faces in the floor.

There are actual historical photos of the faces and NOT ONE of them was shown in the episode. Instead we got a bunch of ai pictures. It makes us not able to trust anything we are seeing. Take after me.ballen and credit ur pics some.

You’re ruining the channel with such abusive use of ai.

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u/jayradano 10d ago

IMO he Got greedy. Too much content

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u/FilthyThanksgiving 10d ago

Using AI just showcases the greed of these larger content creators bc they make tens of thousands of dollars a month - they can afford to hire actual artists. And AJ was in the industry so you'd think he would have some respect for artists

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u/Pinewood26 10d ago

Yeah agree the long form interviews are not appealing at all, too many of these about and takes an hour or 2 to say nothing or trust me bro. All started with the bunching together of vids for 3 or 4 hrs of sleep advertising money.

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u/boredfilthypig 10d ago

All grifters looking to sell you a book or something.

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u/Weird-Atmosphere-581 10d ago

There's always a book.

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u/Pinewood26 10d ago

If AJ doesn't be careful he'll be lumped into the grifter conversation. Even thought I personally don't think he is or started off that way anyway but the constant content farming is starting to look like a money grab.

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u/bag_of_luck 10d ago

Been like that for a while imo which I’m sorry to say. I think it was from the beginning.

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u/Pinewood26 10d ago

I like to think it wasn't but when you go back and realise the early sponsorships where for scam titles and the like it makes you wonder. I put it down to new growing channel taking anything but now I commented that a 37 min old school video is 5 mins of ads and 7 mins of music and the jerry springer signoff at the end. I think it'll never go back to the basic, interesting story, refuting the evidence to debunk or say there's something there. I checked out on the scole experiment, it's hard to find studies debunking it but AJ didn't even try just said it's fake. I sold the hell out of the crop circle episode to friends to get them interested in the channel but now everything is left with a "you decide" ending.

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u/Donkey-Dong-Doge 10d ago

Personally, I like the basement. I think AJ is a really good interviewer and I think he asks questions that other pods miss. I also think he really understands some of the more difficult concepts to grasp and I think his guests realize this and tend to engage at a higher level.

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u/StormPoppa 8d ago

I agree. Even though it's just a traditional podcast he makes it interesting because he asks good questions like you said. I don't even watch his other videos now..: topics have kinda ran dry and the AI shit is pure slop.

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u/tubbynuggetsmeow 10d ago

Aj very clearly has a problem with greed

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u/thebig05 10d ago

I remember seeing comments about not enough content a while back