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Chelsey Weber-Smith

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Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

fake wounds, crawling with maggots, kidnappings, violent claymation eye surgeries, spiders crawling in mouths and ears.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

So this was really popular.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

It was cartoons peeing into a urinal and then that pee goes into a faucet that's on the other side of the stall and then they pour it in a glass and drink it.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

So that was like a really popular one.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

So this is the kind of stuff we're talking about here that is far beyond the scope of anything that is appropriate for kids to see and yet they were seeing it all the time.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

It was a toilet that opened its lid and it had vampire teeth and then it chased around like cool.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

And it was usually the real life ones, which I didn't mention.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

Some of them were like people in like Spider-Man and Elsa costumes.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

And this was like they'd be like, oh, my God, the toilet.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

And then the toilet would chase them around is like an animation.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

Cool.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

Yeah, it was.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

Yeah.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

Super cool.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

Yeah.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

I think you're right.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

I think you're absolutely right.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

And I will say that a lot of the Elsagate discourse when it was happening was like, are these people trying to groom children in this kind of grand conspiracy?

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

Which I don't personally think is true.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

I think it really just comes down to money and attention, like we've already talked about.