Gosh, so many stories about European soccer fans amazed and delighted and overwhelmed

[DavidDvorkin]

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By the awesome wondefulness of America.

Golly gee whiz.

[blm]

1. Like this?

[highplainsdem]

8. That particular YouTube channel, listing a Nigeria location, has its oldest video on May 30, a video about

comedians responding to hecklers. Then an expose on Michael Jackson's siblings on June 4. Both apparently AI narration, but different AI voices. Then a June 12 video on celebrities surprising their fans. Third AI voice. Then back to Michael Jackson on June 18.

And then, a clickbait goldmine - soccer fans discovering the US and being amazed! Seven videos on that topic between June 21 and June 30.

[RandySF]

2. Because America is not MAGA.

[Melon]

3. I watch these videos on my feed. The Europeans

I’ve met here in Texas all seem absolutely blown away by the hospitality and friendship that is America. I love to see this.

[rictofen]

4. What happened to all those hotel cancellations?

There were frequent threads about it for months.

[Renew Deal]

20. Don't know but stadiums were full

[pfitz59]

5. The Seattle visitors I talked with loved the PNW.

Many extended their stays to take in the vast beauty.

[sarisataka]

6. Seems a good thing

to show that we are not like our "leader"

[highplainsdem]

7. It's become very popular as clickbait on YouTube. I do like the real news stories from real news

outlets about soccer fans from other countries coming to the US, but I don't care for clickbait from YouTube influencers and wannabe influencers.

And AI users. Some of these clickbait videos will use different AI voices for different videos on the same channel.

[harumph]

9. Apparently when Americans don't hack you to pieces, it's cause for a celebratory youtube series.

I didn't watch this particular one - but they all follow the same formula. "They're not serial killers like we were told!!!!" ;"They're white supremacists - but they bought me a beer - who knew?!"; "America is so huge!!!" (apparently being "big" is somehow equated to virtuous). Americans also can shoot guns and have fun and still don't manage to kill themselves or others - until they do
Jingoistic propaganda videos based on a strawman premise.

[highplainsdem]

11. The videos I'm seeing posted here aren't from journalists or travel experts. They're YouTubers churning

out content in the hope of making some money. Individuals or couples.

And the video in reply 1 that I commented on in reply 8 is from a channel in Nigeria using voiceover AI narration and probably using AI to both scavenge video from elsewhere on YouTube and write the script.

[harumph]

12. Agreed that it's AI slop - but there seems to be a clear right wing slant.

That was my primary issue with it.

[highplainsdem]

14. It just seems to be clickbait. See my replies in this other thread about another AI-generated channel

that posted over 60 videos in ths last month and switched its portrayal of America halfway through:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221364862

AI users don't need any commitment to whatever clickbait they're peddling.

[highplainsdem]

15. And here's another one - see my reply here, to a video from an AI-generated channel in Kenya that

started out a month ago with misogyny, then switched to America-is-so-amazing.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221364588#post6

Clickbait. Not politics.

[highplainsdem]

19. And another thread with an OP video about World Cup fans thinking America is wonderful, with that

video from a YouTube channel that had posted nothing except videos about basketball until 9 days ago:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/125014171

[Haggard Celine]

10. I'm just glad the tourists aren't getting murdered.

[edhopper]

13. You could write this story

every week in New York.

[Skittles]

16. yes

we're NOT the Land of Trump; no INDEED

[Figarosmom]

17. I saw a bunch of them that were paid promotions

By ad companies and some with consultants
There are a whole slew with this muscle bound British guy that at the bottom says AI promotional.

They are propaganda.

[ITAL]

21. I don't think they're all propaganda

Even well before the World Cup I've seen videos of foreigners visiting the US and being blown away by various things. But this is hardly surprising because it's just different here. Going somewhere new, is just *different* and interesting. When you go to some place new, things that are familiar to them -won't be for you...and it's just a great experience. So the fact that foreign soccer fans are interested in our restaurants or are blown away by the size of our grocery stores, or become giddy when they see a yellow school bus, makes total sense to me. I remember in rural France how excited my wife and I were and I were at mundane things like the sloped roofs of buildings that seemed straight out of drawings from nursery rhyme books.

[lostnfound]

22. Yeah my right wing family member was first to see them that i knew

he was so happy to hear it. Setting people up for the next phase of lies — don’t believe anything you hear from outside the US