I stumbled upon the weirdest Coraline content
farm that is run almost completely by AI. So YouTube is known for having a lot of weird
things on it. Content Farms churn out the most, uh, inappropriate
videos that would even make your nightmares shriek in terror. Add in the hot mess that is AI, and you have
a recipe for disaster. Now very quickly, if you're not familiar,
a content farm is basically a YouTube channel that cranks out and recycles strange, lower
effort content, typically animated, to draw in kids to watch. These kids don't often know any better, and
just click because they want to watch a character they recognize. And suddenly you got this, um, uncomfortable
masterpiece playing for 12 hours. Now not all content farms are aimed at creating
unsuitable content for children, no, some are designed to completely mislead YOU with
AI. And this is where our adventure begins, as
I stumbled upon a very strange channel that is pumping out AI generated Coraline 2 trailers
daily. And they've done this nearly 200 times. These videos are super weird, super short,
and super creepy. And there are SO MANY of them! They are made to look like movie trailers
and news for beloved fandoms. Capitalizing on our hopes and dreams, essentially. Now, Coraline isn’t their only… interest? They do all the hot topics, but what is so
specifically weird about Coraline is that in order to predict the future of Coraline
2, they dig deep into the past, and throw in a galactic twist. Clicking on one of these teaser trailer videos
is an absolute fever dream. “Our journey commences with the enthra with
a symphony of producers and director echoes in negotiations Alita 2 crafting the sequel
saga asteris” Did I just digest a word salad for searchability? What does this have to do with Coraline 2? I didn’t realize there was going to be a
sequel, but miracles happen. But, given this title: “Coraline 2 Release
Date Teaser Trailer, Everything About the Sequel” I’m expecting a confirmed release
date, and official Laika animation or other sneak peeks. The truth is even weirder… Pick a thumbnail, any thumbnail, because it
honestly does NOT matter which of the hundreds of thumbnails you click on as they each take
you to some rehashed version of the ai trailer! Which, at the time of this recording, this
channel has 156 Coraline 2 trailers. By the time this video comes out, there will
probably be at least 45 more. (It’s insanely difficult to count them as
they all have nearly the same exact thumbnail and title, and this channel pumps out 40 videos
a day!) But some of these thumbnails are perfect examples
of an AI fever dream - like WHO IS THIS SUPPOSED TO BE? Some of their Coraline 2 trailers have the
thumbnail of a different movie entirely, so you can tell the care and consideration that’s
being given to each upload. Each thumbnail has the big, glowing “2”
on it prominently, so you’ll have no doubts that you are indeed watching the next “official”
Coraline 2 trailer. Sometimes the 2 is in the middle of a forest. Sometimes (well, most times) it’s on this
futuristic clock portal thing… is Coraline 2 taking place in SPACE? Whoa I bet no Coraline theorists predicted
that one! There’s a thumbnail type that says “ANTASDTEY
CORAUUV 2” (or something like that but the AI cut off the bottoms and tops of the letters. Sounds like a hit! Very memorable and easy to spell. “Coraline 2 trailer movie teaser news”
(well one of the dozens of videos with that title) has Coraline and Wybie’s positioning
from when they look down the well… only they're looking into some rocky tunnel. The strangest part about this type of thumbnail
is the “fast and furious” logo and font thing they’ve got going on, and of course
spelling “Coraline” “Coralii” (it got cut off) Look I KNOW everyone in Coraline’s
worlds mispronounces her name as “Caroline” but that is not what’s going on here. Maybe this Coraline 2 will be a race through
caves! Sometimes this channel will change up the
regular Coraline-looking girl to have a line between her eyes. Sometimes they’ll give her weirdly long
cat-eye makeup? The biggest departure is this gaunt video
gamey one over a portal to the moon. I’m not sure what movie this is” “Coraline
FIOWL 2?” There is ONE exception to the glowing 2: the
one time they used the “deleted scenes” imagery when that was trending a bit ago. I can’t say it helped that video out, but
it’s nice they change it up sometimes. Oh, the other exception is when they used
the wrong movie as their thumbnail, but we won’t count that as creativity. Speaking of ‘creativity’ - it’s time
to see what’s actually in these 150 plus Coraline 2 teaser trailers! First up, there is usually that word salad
of Search Engine Optimization terms. If we hover over this Coraline Part2 thumbnail,
with a release slated for February 2022 (But released in 2024 btw… suspicious) we are
shown the SEO word salad I dramatically read at the start of this video. Unfortunately… these word salads are VERY common, and it
seems to be the ONLY thing that changes between each Coraline trailer. Very informative, glad I now know 'everything
release dates and behind the scenes trailer news!' Cool. The weirdest thing is when the in-video text
is advertising for other franchises that this channel cuts together. For example: “Cars 4 in progress 2 virgin
river s6 on the” etc. Because if you click on a Coraline 2 teaser
trailer, you’ll naturally be wanting to know about “Cars." The actual trailer starts, (backed by mostly
the Cat’s vocals from the first movie), and we camera pans. That’s incredible stop motion! There’s then
this weird shape overlaying the corridor door for a few frames. Should we put on our Coraline theorist caps,
or just let this one slide? Regardless, we then cut to the Pink Palace… only it too is weirdly warping! Pulled straight from the original movie we
see the Key, and the Cat, and another cut to black. There's an otherworldly Coraline being very
studious. This Coraline has both NO FACE AND SUPER DILATED
pupils in this shot, then again no face on the porch. Then there’s this banshee Alice in Wonderland
girl running through the woods that I’ll admit I have no clue what it’s doing here. But the whole time, the Cat is narrating to
us about the Other Mother’s “small world” from the original Coraline movie. But earlier I mentioned that this channel
“digs deep into the past” to predict Coraline 2, and here’s what I meant: they stole early
Coraline pre-vis concept art and used it for these ‘new’ trailers. Nearly every trailer has these very adorable
illustrated animations…. that were stolen from Stef Choi and run through an AI animation
software likely. Such cute concept art! They use this a LOT in trailers, and tint
it slightly different colors. Oh hey, nice looking corridor and ghost children
animation! Oh. It's stolen concept art from Dan Krall I believe. Now, in these trailers, Coraline either has
NO FACE (like in the shot where she stands on Mr. B’s balcony, or the porch) or she
has EVERY FACE. Jeeze. Pick a style for Coraline! Here she’s adorable in her stolen concept
art way. Then she’s got a long blue braid and looks
like a Disney princess Bratz doll... and looks like she was sourced from both of those things
from various AI farms. Actually it looks like they used these for
EVERY version of her, like just combed the results and plugged them in. Even in her gaunt look she’s… STILL AI. Coraline’s house, what I assume is still
the Pink Palace, in these trailers is also super varied. She’s in an abandoned Hobbit Hole with a
circle door. Well there are a few different hobbit houses
she lives in, apparently. “Coraline 2: There and Back Again.” She’s tip toeing like a ballerina through
an overgrown gothic foyer. Something to note is that each of these trailers
is nearly the same exact length to the ones before and after it. The incremented one second difference is when
they add additional black space between the shots, or else when they add a new AI shot
to the trailer completely. Ironically, these videos end with the claim
of “fair use” - which seems like a fishy way to cover their “asteris.” None of the shots used are original, some
of them are blatantly stolen, and all of them has been reused at least 200 times. Most of them appear to have been run through
or generated by AI. This is, through and through, a content farm,
laser-focusing on trending topics and pumping out low-quality (and the SAME content) at
a breakneck speed. Only instead of doing saucy Sonic pregnancy
videos, or suggestive Digital Circus spoofs, they just cut trailers together from popular,
searchable IPs and name them with an SEO word salad, hoping to catch some unsuspecting fan
in their net. The overall intention is not entertainment,
but views. And a LOT of them. And there’s nothing wrong with wanting to
get eyes on your art! But this is low effort... basically no effort. For perspective, this channel was started
in December 2022, and has over 4.6k videos. Being conservative, that's around 22 videos
uploaded PER DAY. Because at this time, its oldest upload is
7 months ago, and it’s an “Encanto 2 Release Date & Movie Teaser Trailer All About Continuation”
with 627 views. They definitely had a mission for this channel
from the very start! And it looks like it’s mission was to copy
the “success” of this other channel, which ALSO does quote unquote “official” movie
trailers for live action and sequel releases. “Success” here is of course in air quotes
because this channel too is misleading as all heck, with its basic broll shots cut over
the movie track, and using big names in the titles and thumbnails to draw people in, and
of course, AI to generate the actors into movies that don't exist. And this AI Moana 2 slop somehow lured in
over 20 million people. Now, our Coraline farm channel does not have
that level of ahh ‘success’ at this time… Looks like their first major hit was their
“Coraline 2 Release Date Teaser Trailer, Everything About the Sequel” from 6 months
ago, currently at 28K views. Hey, if something works, keep uploading the
same video multiple times a day, every single day, with minor tweaks and timing adjustments. No one’s gonna notice! They’ve also started to mercifully change
some of their titles to be more imaginative like “Coraline 2: The Return of the Beldam.” But it’s very very clear to see they ride
the wave of sequel surfers, looking for any news on a beloved franchise. I mean, the only reason you’d name a video
(well, like 45 videos) “Coraline 2 Release Date Teaser Trailer, Everything About the
Sequel” is if you were playing the “maximize search terms” and other SEO games. Recently (and that will change before this
video comes out because they literally put out 44 videos yesterday) the channel has been
focusing on Coco 2, Rio 3, Encanto 2, and Descendants 4. They have a few thousand? Alita 2 trailers, and have dabbled in sports
and getting rich, but they’ll probably be back on Coraline 2 in a day or so. I’ve noticed they use all the same shots,
except for when a new weird AI render is out of the oven. When the DO reuse the same shots and music
and edited movie vocal track, they Black the Screen out A LOT between shots, likely to
obfuscate any attempt to claim ‘reused content.” They also tint the reused footage slightly
different colors between uploads for this same reason. It’s a very lazy content farm - reusing
the same old shots from the movie, and concept art (run through AI) and then adding a new
AI shot into the mix as soon as it’s rendered. So, after sifting through this mind bender,
let's try to actually pinpoint what this AI Coraline 2 is about from the trailers. A fool’s errand, I know. If we were to take this farm seriously for
a moment, it feels like Coraline is one of hundreds of Coralines in familiar worlds,
but with an eerie twist - wait that’s kinda like original Coraline’s world and the nearly
perfect copy of it that the Other Mother makes in her version of the Other World… hmm. Maybe we’re on to something here! Which Coraline is the ‘real’ one and which
Coralines are the “other’ Coralines? Is this a movie about jumbled timelines and
styles and Coraline getting back home to the world that she took for granted again, but
across space? That would make the 'Galactic Coralines' and
the 'Hobbit House' Coralines and the weird 'Scampering through the Woods' Coralines all
fit together nicely in a way! But here I am trying to turn trash into treasure,
which is probably more consideration and effort than the people (or robots) making these “trailers”
put in! Which is honestly kinda exasperating. But I want to tell you that there IS a place
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