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#youtube

"This 'AI slop' harms children's development by distorting their sense of reality, overwhelming their learning processes and hijacking their attention, thereby extending time online and displacing offline activities necessary for their healthy development."

YouTube does not offer any official way to completely get rid of Shorts. The only option is to go to the first row of Shorts you see on your homepage, click the three dots in the upper right-hand corner, and hit 'See Fewer Shorts.' This will result in you not seeing as many Shorts on your homepage for a period of around 30 days on the high end, although that can fluctuate.

Jonah Singer, a 27-year-old ASMR content creator, utilizes a $100,000 head and torso simulator mic named Alex to produce his videos, which are particularly popular among viewers suffering from insomnia and anxiety.

A young woman identified as K.G.M. accused Meta and YouTube of creating products as addictive as cigarettes or online gambling sites, claiming that features like infinite scrolling contributed to her depression and anxiety.

FAS stated, 'It is clear that businesses need time to adapt to the new rules and shift to alternative advertising channels.' This reflects the agency's recognition of the challenges faced by advertisers in light of the new regulations.

A YouTube channel belonging to 'Arthur Putie' uploaded the third-ever episode of MST3K, where a long-haired Joel Hodgson and robot friends mock the 1987 Japanese space opera Star Force.

The race to advance conversational AI in the living room is heating up, with YouTube being the latest to expand its tool to smart TVs, gaming consoles, and streaming devices. This experimental feature, previously limited to mobile devices and the web, now brings conversational AI directly to the largest screen in the home, allowing users to ask questions about content without leaving the video they're watching.

YouTube is the Hunger Games of attention. Twenty million new videos compete for visibility every day against over 5 billion already on the platform. Whatever survives that level of competition is the most valuable attention in media. Unlike other platforms, viewers arrive with a purpose. They come to watch something specific, from creators they follow. That's a fundamentally different relationship than a scroll-based feed.

YouTube continues to vacuum up digital advertising dollars, mostly at the expense of traditional TV ad budgets, notching its biggest-ever ad sales number to date for the fourth quarter of 2025. However, the video giant's ad haul came in below Wall Street forecasts. In the last three months of the year, YouTube's global ad revenue totaled $11.38 billion, a year-over-year increase of 8.7%, parent company Alphabet reported. Wall Street analysts on average forecast YouTube ad revenue coming in at $11.84 billion, per StreetAccount.

Nope, not " Melania" - though the sort-of-documentary about the first lady did do better than industry folks had projected, bringing in $7 million in its first weekend. The real hit of the weekend was made by someone you probably haven't heard of, unless you are a very specific kind of online person: " Iron Lung," a horror/sci-fi movie, written, directed by, and starring Mark Fischbach, known to his fans as Markiplier on YouTube, where he has 38.2 million subscribers.