true crime youtube has turned into slop. All the thumbnails are lies, and it's always the same lies so even the lies becoming boring. Lazy channels dial the righteous condemnation to 100 and constantly use dramatic hyperbole because that works for EWU, rather than speak authentically about what's in the video. Some of this stuff is AI now.

It was an easy format to begin with.
1. get inexpensive police videos
2. talk over it occasionally
3. publish

Whenever there's a gold rush, you imagine that every gold rusher is a high-effort fanatic of mining, but in fact a gold rush selects for the laziest and more disinterested human slop around. This happens EVERY TIME. This is part of why you can't develop a real industry just by throwing a lot of money at it. You draw too many of these people who see easy money and put in no effort.