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For Sale Mar 25, 2026 at 8:15 PM

There’s Something Very Dark About a Lot of Those Viral AI Fruit Videos

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https://www.wired.com/story/theres-something-very-dark-about-a-lot-of-those-viral-ai-fruit-videos/
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Blursed_Hearse12 Mar 25, 2026 +43
I’m so glad I don’t see *any* of this shit.
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MasterOfManyWorlds Mar 25, 2026 +7
Yeah.. me too. WTF.
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CheesyPotatoSack Mar 25, 2026 +3
I also came for WTF
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Advancedsnark Mar 25, 2026 +1
I just get the occasional ai ninja cat on my feed. I must not be in the fruit demographic.
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Stingray88 Mar 25, 2026 +1
First thing I thought too, never heard or seen any of this dumb shit. I asked my wife too and she has no idea what I was talking about. People who are getting a lot of this… keep in mind the algorithms are probably feeding you this for a reason…
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CrustyTh3Punk Mar 25, 2026 +18
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.
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Walmartian_Beta Mar 25, 2026 +25
This shit is so weird and it keeps showing up in my feed. The couple of videos I watched were basically like - the female is a cheating w****, and it's SO obvious she fucked a cucumber instead of her wonderful strawberry husband.
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RejectingBoredom Mar 25, 2026 +17
A lot of them have weird racial undertones too, with aubergines being black coded and the whole thing being like “I can’t raise an aubergine/strawberry mix baby with my strawberry husband!” My gf and I were looking at videos on Instagram a while back and found one and just couldn’t look away like watching a car wreck
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No-Stranger2936 Mar 25, 2026 +4
As someone who hasn't seen these videos What the actual f***
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arealhumannotabot Mar 25, 2026 +3
Lmao you clicked? You’re cooked
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ReasonableLeader1500 Mar 25, 2026 +1
It shows up on your feed because you watch it. Stop watching and dislike it immediately, then AI slop won't show as much in your feed.
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EntertainmentQuick47 Mar 25, 2026 +6
The only things I see of these videos on TikTok are people talking ABOUT those videos and how bizarre they are.
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CPLWPM85 Mar 25, 2026 +2
Get me off this planet.
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wiredmagazine Mar 25, 2026 +4
From female fruit being fart-shamed or even sexually assaulted, there’s a misogynistic undercurrent to the fruit slop microdramas, even as they appear to be cultivating genuine fans. Read the full story: [https://www.wired.com/story/theres-something-very-dark-about-a-lot-of-those-viral-ai-fruit-videos/](https://www.wired.com/story/theres-something-very-dark-about-a-lot-of-those-viral-ai-fruit-videos/)
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mcjimmybingo Mar 25, 2026 +2
Way ahead of ya Wired over on /r/BrandNewSentence https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/1s3lxis/female_fruit_being_fartshamed_in_fruit_slop/
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Signiference Mar 25, 2026 +2
There’s a difference between something going viral and ads being spammed. No one is sharing and choosing to rewatch these over and over. These aren’t viral.
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Tomusina Mar 25, 2026 +2
why are we sharing this "news" -- oh because this is literally Wired advertising to us on Reddit, got it.
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reidybobeidy89 Mar 25, 2026 +1
My daughter was saying this is the latest high school craze this show.
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OkDentist4059 Mar 26, 2026 +1
Reminds me of the [Elsagate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate) stuff from a few years back.
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