So the YouTube algorithm recently recommended this channel to me called Retroflow 1985. It’s a guy in Germany who puts out these synthwave music videos, with AI-generated artwork (and probably AI-generated music) that feels like it could have come out of the 1980s (hence the term “synthwave”).
I’m not a huge synthwave fan, but I do like this guy’s stuff. More than that, though, I’m fascinated by the fact that he’s put out something like 250 videos since he started his channel six months ago. In fact, he puts out something like 3-5 videos per day, so that the algorithm is constantly recommended new ones to me. Most of them only have a couple of hundred views, but a handful have more than a thousand. As of right now, he has <2k subscribers.
As a fellow creative who is also dabbling with AI, I am really interested to see how this strategy works for him, and where he (or she, I suppose) goes from here. Because we do live in an age where the algorithms determine a lot about what art & entertainment we are exposed to, and how we consume it—and it appears that in many domains (including books, to some extent) you have to churn out a lot of content in order to feed the algorithm.
Or maybe this guy isn’t human at all, but an AI agent creating and publishing this stuff? In which case, it will be even more interesting to see what he/she/it comes up with…
