If it feels like people are living in their own universes sometimes, it’s not that far from the truth. A new report from Mother Jones digs up the surprisingly populated world of pro-MAGA, AI-generated slop videos that have carved out a niche on YouTube by turning the most r/thatHappened-ass stories into content that Boomers and other folks in need of some copium happily lap up.
The story highlights a couple of the biggest offenders, accounts like Elite Stories and Mr. Robe Stories, along with a selection of others that have created a MAGA alternate universe. The account uploads videos that are pure AI slop from start to finish: AI narration telling a completely fabricated story with AI-generated images sprinkled in to illustrate it. The videos usually run anywhere from 10 to 40 minutes—long enough to get in a couple ad breaks to make some money. And as Mother Jones points out, some of the videos are indeed monetized.
Elite Stories has since disappeared from the platform—apparently banned by YouTube in response to Mother Jones’ reporting—but a cached version of the YouTube account that appears in a Google search shows the account had more than 160,000 followers at the time of its removal. An archived version of the account shows a sampling of the videos you can find there: “A Little Girl Asks Trump About God – His Response Brings Her To Tears.” Other videos showcase Attorney General Pam Bondi and Clint Eastwood, for some reason.
Mr. Robe Stories (what a name, by the way) is also down now, but it had over 41,000 subscribers, and it provides a collection of similar MAGA-tilted stories about people wronging figures from across the extended Trump universe, only for them to get struck down by their 150 IQ heroes like Baron Trump and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
Some of the Mr. Robe Stories uploads sit at just a few hundred views, like “Karoline Leavitt Claps Back Ruthlessly After Michelle Obama Mocks Donald Trump” which is really just a Mad Libs of nonsense that apparently has not resonated with the audience. Others, though, rack up more than a million views. “Barron Trump STANDS UP as Professor Mocks Melania – His Response Shocks Everyone” broke the million watch mark and is filled with comments from people who are more than happy to take the tale as fact.
“Barron is such a respectful and well-raised young man. His parents must be proud!” a top comment reads. “I have so much respect for Baron and my opinion of professor’s has lowered again!” another said. To be fair to the uploading account, all of the videos do appear to display a disclaimer at the start of the video that notes they are entirely works of fiction. But when people want to believe it’s true, they’re happy to ignore the one-second-long warning message and take the next half-hour worth of content as gospel.
Almost as troubling as the videos themselves and the commenters who want badly to believe the stories are real are the ads that are being served on top of them. In viewing these videos in incognito mode (I’m not trying to fuck up my own algorithm *that* bad), I was served mostly pseudo-scientific trash about Alzheimer’s disease, including one that claimed the condition is caused primarily by drinking water at the wrong temperature.
Earlier this week, YouTube issued a statement supporting the NO FAKES Act of 2025, a proposed bill that would establish protections for the voice and visual likeness of people who may be duplicated by generative AI tools. But it appears the platform has a lot of work to do in moderating AI content.
A spokesperson for YouTube told Gizmodo, “Our Community Guidelines apply to all content on YouTube, including AI-generated content. In this case, we terminated the channel in question for violating our spam policies. Our privacy process can also be used by someone to request the removal of AI-generated content that simulates their likeness.”
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