Chelsey Weber-Smith

They are still funny.

that's nice god this is just what a different time you know yeah it's just uh it's idyllic and frozen in the past in a way we'll just never get back but that's okay at least we get it and we get to have that in the back of our hearts all the time as we face this new frontier including the uh terrifying shit i'm gonna share with you guys today because that's what i'm here yes

I am.

Say it.

But we are being careful.

We are being so careful, everyone.

And also, this is American Hysteria because we're doing a co-episode here.

You know, I am doing fine.

I've definitely been in this like really strange snow globe world that I'm going to share with you about this phenomenon that really hit the Internet in 2024, early 2025.

And it's known as cute cat A.I.

And it is a real

Kitty Horror Picture Show, which I came up with like 10 minutes before we started recording in case it didn't sound natural.

You know, it has much in common with that.

I think that maybe that was the more famous manifestation of the same kind of thing.

So yes and no.

But same kind of conceit of...

this like cat family and a bunch of different random kind of sloppy bullshit happens in these videos that definitely verges on being very inappropriate, especially based on the titles and based on what you can imagine is being marketed toward kids in a very similar way to Elsagate, which I am gonna give a quick, you know, primer back on, yeah.

Probably not.

And I think it is one of those cases where, like Elsagate, it started out innocent enough, and then once you get this ball rolling, I won't say bad actors necessarily, but people start to realize that you can combine something really popular

with kind of these very base kind of like id types of content that then starts it going in the direction of sex, death, and just gore in general.