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Gosh, so many stories about Europeans soccer fans amazed and delighted and overwhelmed (Original Post) DavidDvorkin 7 hrs ago OP
Like this? blm 7 hrs ago #1
That particular YouTube channel, listing a Nigeria location, has its oldest video on May 30, a video about highplainsdem 6 hrs ago #8
Because America is not MAGA. RandySF 7 hrs ago #2
I watch these videos on my feed. The Europeans Melon 6 hrs ago #3
What happened to all those hotel cancellations? rictofen 6 hrs ago #4
The Seattle visitors I talked with loved the PNW. pfitz59 6 hrs ago #5
Seems a good thing sarisataka 6 hrs ago #6
It's become very popular as clickbait on YouTube. I do like the real news stories from real news highplainsdem 6 hrs ago #7
Apparently when Americans don't hack you to pieces, it's cause for a celebratory youtube series. harumph 6 hrs ago #9
The videos I'm seeing posted here aren't from journalists or travel experts. They're YouTubers churning highplainsdem 5 hrs ago #11
Agreed that it's AI slop - but there seems to be a clear right wing slant. harumph 5 hrs ago #12
It just seems to be clickbait. See my replies in this other thread about another AI-generated channel highplainsdem 5 hrs ago #14
And here's another one - see my reply here, to a video from an AI-generated channel in Kenya that highplainsdem 5 hrs ago #15
And another thread with an OP video about World Cup fans thinking America is wonderful, with that highplainsdem 3 hrs ago #19
I'm just glad the tourists aren't getting murdered. Haggard Celine 5 hrs ago #10
You could write this story edhopper 5 hrs ago #13
yes Skittles 4 hrs ago #16
I saw a bunch of them that were paid promotions Figarosmom 4 hrs ago #17
This message was self-deleted by its author Stacey Grove 4 hrs ago #18

highplainsdem

(63,930 posts)
8. That particular YouTube channel, listing a Nigeria location, has its oldest video on May 30, a video about
Fri Jul 10, 2026, 12:53 AM
6 hrs ago

comedians responding to hecklers. Then an expose on Michael Jackson's siblings on June 4. Both apparently AI narration, but different AI voices. Then a June 12 video on celebrities surprising their fans. Third AI voice. Then back to Michael Jackson on June 18.

And then, a clickbait goldmine - soccer fans discovering the US and being amazed! Seven videos on that topic between June 21 and June 30.

Melon

(2,000 posts)
3. I watch these videos on my feed. The Europeans
Fri Jul 10, 2026, 12:11 AM
6 hrs ago

I’ve met here in Texas all seem absolutely blown away by the hospitality and friendship that is America. I love to see this.

rictofen

(276 posts)
4. What happened to all those hotel cancellations?
Fri Jul 10, 2026, 12:23 AM
6 hrs ago

There were frequent threads about it for months.

pfitz59

(13,072 posts)
5. The Seattle visitors I talked with loved the PNW.
Fri Jul 10, 2026, 12:28 AM
6 hrs ago

Many extended their stays to take in the vast beauty.

highplainsdem

(63,930 posts)
7. It's become very popular as clickbait on YouTube. I do like the real news stories from real news
Fri Jul 10, 2026, 12:34 AM
6 hrs ago

outlets about soccer fans from other countries coming to the US, but I don't care for clickbait from YouTube influencers and wannabe influencers.

And AI users. Some of these clickbait videos will use different AI voices for different videos on the same channel.

harumph

(3,627 posts)
9. Apparently when Americans don't hack you to pieces, it's cause for a celebratory youtube series.
Fri Jul 10, 2026, 01:00 AM
6 hrs ago

I didn't watch this particular one - but they all follow the same formula. "They're not serial killers like we were told!!!!" ;"They're white supremacists - but they bought me a beer - who knew?!"; "America is so huge!!!" (apparently being "big" is somehow equated to virtuous). Americans also can shoot guns and have fun and still don't manage to kill themselves or others - until they do
Jingoistic propaganda videos based on a strawman premise.

highplainsdem

(63,930 posts)
11. The videos I'm seeing posted here aren't from journalists or travel experts. They're YouTubers churning
Fri Jul 10, 2026, 01:09 AM
5 hrs ago

out content in the hope of making some money. Individuals or couples.

And the video in reply 1 that I commented on in reply 8 is from a channel in Nigeria using voiceover AI narration and probably using AI to both scavenge video from elsewhere on YouTube and write the script.

harumph

(3,627 posts)
12. Agreed that it's AI slop - but there seems to be a clear right wing slant.
Fri Jul 10, 2026, 01:10 AM
5 hrs ago

That was my primary issue with it.

highplainsdem

(63,930 posts)
14. It just seems to be clickbait. See my replies in this other thread about another AI-generated channel
Fri Jul 10, 2026, 01:42 AM
5 hrs ago

that posted over 60 videos in ths last month and switched its portrayal of America halfway through:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221364862

AI users don't need any commitment to whatever clickbait they're peddling.

highplainsdem

(63,930 posts)
15. And here's another one - see my reply here, to a video from an AI-generated channel in Kenya that
Fri Jul 10, 2026, 02:05 AM
5 hrs ago

started out a month ago with misogyny, then switched to America-is-so-amazing.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221364588#post6

Clickbait. Not politics.

highplainsdem

(63,930 posts)
19. And another thread with an OP video about World Cup fans thinking America is wonderful, with that
Fri Jul 10, 2026, 03:29 AM
3 hrs ago

video from a YouTube channel that had posted nothing except videos about basketball until 9 days ago:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/125014171

Figarosmom

(15,156 posts)
17. I saw a bunch of them that were paid promotions
Fri Jul 10, 2026, 02:38 AM
4 hrs ago

By ad companies and some with consultants
There are a whole slew with this muscle bound British guy that at the bottom says AI promotional.

They are propaganda.

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