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Likely many other, I've been grossed out by some of the shit getting churned out with generative ai. But it's also made me notice some of the existing things that give me the same feeling.

Poorly translated stuff, as often seen on cheap Chinese imports, has the same uncanny valley awkwardness. It sounds like English, but it isn't what an actual human who spoke English would say. And if we want to talk about an algorithm that's gone rogue and is destroying the world while trying to fulfill some arbitary metrics, there's always late-stage capitalism...

Anyone else notice things like this?

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[-] Denjin@feddit.uk 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Law and Order, Law and Order Special Victims Unit, Law and Order Organized Crime, Law and Order Toronto, Law and Order Criminal Intent, Law and Order LA, Law and Order Trial by Jury, Law and Order True Crime, Law and Order UK, Code of Law (aus), Paris enquêtes criminelles (fra), Закон и Порядок. Отдел оперативных расследований (rus), Convictions

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Adam Sandler films post 2010

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago
[-] iamericandre@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Did you see uncut gems? Definitely worth a watch

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[-] Jhex@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

any maga conspiracy theories

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Like a lot of tv shows.

Like... especially those cop shows, "police proceduals", booorrring. Also copaganda.

When I wanna find something new to watch, I basically have this routine where I start reading the plot summary of the thing on wikipedia, and if it sounds too boring, I'll just skip it. If I read like a few sentences and it sounds exciting, I stop reading the rest of the plot and just start watching.

I remember watching a lot of Hong Kong TV shows, those were sometimes fun, but its very like... I can almost predict the plot sometimes, like I just see a character and I know they're gonna flip sides.

But then we get to the Mainland Mandarin TV Shows... omg, okay so this was before I really got into western media.

So the Mainland stuff, its either:

  1. Romance... boring, never watched those, cuz that felt very "adult" to me, not really appropriate for me as a kid, i thought (its always cringy to me)
  2. Ancient China... royal courts... schemes... coups... enunichs... one of the emperor's wife plots against the concubine or some weird shit, some of the emperors sons fight each other for the throne... blah blah... ugh, boring, idk how I even stand watching those as a kid
  3. Resistance against japanese-invasion... I mean I kinda used to like the espionage thing and morse code stuff, but like... now looking back, its so repetative... they have like so much of stuff about the japanese invasion, like... lol, they really want to instill the anti-japan hate into young Chinese kids

like... I don't think there are even shows or movies from China that are even interesting. I think the politics has to do with it. Like, you can't make anything originak and intriguing without getting censored, so they just stick to "safe" formulas. Thus the boringness.

Like. I tried to watch 3 body problem in the Tencent version.

Omg, why is it so boring?

I'm a native Mandarin speaker and I got to like episode 8 out of 30 and I just gave up... too slow, too boring. I liked the Netflix version better, especially the Cultural Revolution and Struggle Session scene they cut out, cuz Pooh bear said no.

So... I have Cantonese and Mandarin as my languages... that I just have no fun content to watch in... ugh...

But it felt good watching 3 Body Problem Netflix edition, and like being able to hear and understand everything said in both languages, perks of being bilingual xD

[-] Krudler@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

There's a ton of stuff that applies to the female demographic - all kinds of stupid words with LED lights on them, idiotic fake wooden plank signs that say wine o'clock, horrible "inspirational" messages in that goofy curly font, something that you'd normally sell to a guy except they hot glued a pink pom pom on it.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago
[-] capuccino@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

That guy in every social platform sharing old ass memes and not apporting nothing else rather than fill the feed with super compressed pictures of an image that you have seen a lot of times before.

[-] IWW4@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago
  • Pretty much the entire DCeU.
  • Everything The Rock has made in the last 15 years
  • 99.9% of Network TV Shows
  • So much Top 40 music
  • Taco Bell Food
  • Subway Food
  • State Farm TV Ads
  • Progressive TV ads (outside of the Flo campaign)
  • Fox News
  • Baseball
[-] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago

Most songs with lyrics. One that comes to mind is a tune with the line "say what you came to say" that repeats dozens of times in 3 minutes. Dude should take his own advice and actually say something.

[-] Acamon@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago
[-] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Thanks for the link.

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[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

The documentary "Exit through the gift shop" will give you my answer better than I could.

[-] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I didn’t know where you were going to go with this…and I’m confused by the rest your post.

…I was going to say everything in the Tom Clancy universe was slop.

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

Cars have been a prime example, IMO, for a long while.

Oh, the screen on your center console cracked or is out of date? You can't fix it on your own and you need the dealership to do it and if they can't, you need to upgrade your vehicle because they make the vehicle almost impossible to run without it.

Want to change your oil? A well known brandnI cannot think of the name of right now needs to approve! Heated seats? I think it was BMW that planned on charging you a subscription service for that.

I'm predicting in less than a decade, if things don't change, you'll not only be selling a liver for that car, but also all your healthy organs to be able to afford the subscription service to be able to start your car.

Oh, and don't even get me started on the kids pretending to be adults who own a vehicle so damn tall that they have to climb into it using a step thing in the side. I'm talking average height or taller and no visible signs that they struggle to enter ( other than being too short ). It's like watching an entitled toddler try to walk up stairs for the first time. You can't help but pity them, or at least I can't.

[-] pedz@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

Any of the sixteen YouTube channel narrated by Simon Whistler.

It may not be intentional slop but it's pretty much the definition of quantity over quality.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Pulp fiction.

Those knockoffs of Disney etc. movies.

Mr Beast.

[-] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 3 points 4 days ago

4-packs of 2-TB NVME for $50 on eBay.

[-] ODuffer@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Paper mill challenges: past, present, and future - ScienceDirect https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0895435624003056

[-] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

NFL referees

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