The Countries More Likely to Subscribe to AI Slop YouTube Channels

In collaboration with Kapwing, we analyzed the 100 top trending video channels in every country to see how prevalent AI slop has become locally and found that Spain has 20.22 million AI slop channel subscribers among its trending channels.

We also simulated the experience of an untained YouTube shorts algorithm by creating a new YouTube account and noting the occurrence of AI slop or brainrot videos among the first 500 videos in the feed: in total, 104 (21%) of the first 500 videos were AI-generated, and 165 (33%) of those 500 videos were brainrot.

These two graphics are part of a larger report on the state of AI slop in YouTube right now.