{"id":21502,"date":"2025-06-09T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=21502"},"modified":"2025-06-06T08:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:32:56","slug":"just-for-fun-retroflow-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/just-for-fun-retroflow-1985\/","title":{"rendered":"Just for fun: Retroflow 1985"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4_FDVexvlco?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So the YouTube algorithm recently recommended this channel to me called Retroflow 1985. It&#8217;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 &#8220;synthwave&#8221;).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not a huge synthwave fan, but I do like this guy&#8217;s stuff. More than that, though, I&#8217;m fascinated by the fact that he&#8217;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 &lt;2k subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 &amp; entertainment we are exposed to, and how we consume it\u2014and 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or maybe this guy isn&#8217;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\u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the YouTube algorithm recently recommended this channel to me called Retroflow 1985. It&#8217;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 &#8220;synthwave&#8221;). I&#8217;m not a huge synthwave fan, but I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/just-for-fun-retroflow-1985\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just for fun: Retroflow 1985<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1876,1875,1712,259,150],"class_list":["post-21502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-agentic-ai","tag-algorithms","tag-generative-ai","tag-just-for-fun","tag-music","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-5AO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21522,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21502\/revisions\/21522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}