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I will make one last post about this here before addressing it in more detail in my next video. You know that I have called out channels in the past that I believe are dangerous to the YouTube ecosystem and to all creators in the military niche.

This channel called WW2 DeepFiles is acting with 100% ill intent toward me and is deliberately aimed at harming my channel.

As you can see, this operation is clearly trying to impersonate me and my style through titles and thumbnails (Image 1 and 2) so that people think it is me and so that his videos appear right next to my own content. He uses cheap, AI-generated scripts and edits outsourced to people on platforms like Upwork, without respect to the fact that videos with genuinely human-written commentary and at least minimal certain quality standards are very hard and time-consuming to produce.

His kind of content, by contrast, is pure opportunistic AI slop and is deliberately aimed at young, older, and otherwise vulnerable audiences it is also highly inauthentic and misleading.

He started with AI-generated World War II stories (Image 3) to make money, and when that didn’t work, he moved on to exploiting the war in Ukraine. Channels like his are exactly the reason genuine history, military, and war YouTubers have struggled with the platform for over a decade.

I have absolutely no problem with people raising awareness about wars in facts it is quite the opposite. More people should talk about them and I know that I inspired many creators who are big today to start their own thing, even if many of them would never openly admit it.

Not because my content is perfect or because I am the benchmark, but simply because I was an early pioneer in this niche. For many people, their first contact with military and war content on YouTube was through my channel, purely because I have been around for so long.

Some may have even started because they thought the way I do things sucks and that they could do it better and honestly, that’s totally fine. But as mentioned before, this here is not about awareness. This is purely selfish and driven by ill intent without any respect to me, the viewers and most important to the soldiers who film this stuff and risk their lives daily.

If you come across such content, please do not interact with it. Do not comment on the videos out of anger because they make up fake stories and cut together unrelated footage to make it look like one large battle. Simply report the content and the channels and move on to the genuine creators with upright intentions.

And these countless AI slop channels will, in the long run, inevitably force me to put more of myself into my videos. I would actually prefer to avoid that, as it has always been part of my style not to push myself into the foreground, but instead to give the topics and the soldiers a platform.

However, the one thing this kind of imitation will never be able to impersonate in the long term, aside from my personal commentary, is me as a person.

Thank you for your attention on this matter.

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Here’s a picture of my cats, and since I hopefully have your attention now, I’d like to address a few things and respond to your recently voiced concerns so expand this post to read it fully.

Since this came up in the comments of my recent uploads on YouTube, I also want to address a few things. Some viewers voiced their opinions regarding AI dubbing, the use of different voices and voice actors, as well as music.

When it comes to AI dubbing, I’ve heard your feedback clearly and will not pursue that approach any further. I still have two more videos that were dubbed with AI and since I paid for them, I’ll release them over the next few months but after that, no more videos will use this feature. I will stick to subtitles instead. As mentioned before, this was just an experiment.

Maybe you don’t know this, but I have a rough idea of the kind of content you usually watch. In my channel’s analytics there’s an Audience tab that shows which other channels my viewers also watch on average.

It doesn’t show individual viewing habits, but it provides a broad overview of 15 channels you typically watch.

One of those channels is entirely built around AI dubbing so I wonder why that doesn’t seem to be an issue for you there. Especially since it is not meant to replace my content but simply just means more content for you.

Interestingly, 7 of the 15 channels you watch are full-on AI channels, and the military/war niche is flooded with them right now. These AI videos are pulling big numbers so if you want to see less of that, maybe stop clicking on those videos. Data doesn’t lie.

Of course, I’m pretty sure many of these channels are using bots and funneling those bot views through channels like mine to ‘launder’ them and build some watch history. Still, it all looks very suspicious and warrants longer-term observation.

Regarding different voices and voice actors in general: I need more data here, especially when it comes to the average view duration on YouTube. I know that long-time viewers of my channel mostly prefer my own voice, but I don’t know if that’s also the case for new viewers and non-subscribers who actually make up the majority of my audience.

These people don’t know me or my personality, so I want to test whether using native speakers has a positive effect on overall watch time. This metric, along with click-through rate, likes, and comments, is one of the most important factors for the YouTube algorithm.

Right now, the average view duration and watch time with different native-speaking voices are the same as when I use my own voice. Maybe they’d be slightly higher if frequent viewers didn’t click off, but it’s still interesting data.

It suggests other channels should, in general, get similar AVD and watch-time metrics to mine yet competitively, YouTube is disadvantaging me, since, as I said, these slop channels are pulling big numbers. Some get millions of views with every upload and this weekly or even in shorter upload spans and these videos use the cheapest robotic AI voices imaginable.

Please be patient with me as I run further tests. No matter the outcome, I will continue to voice many of the videos myself but if using voice actors proves successful, I might ramp up production this way.

You have to understand that because of the massive amount of AI-generated slop currently flooding YouTube, we’re all caught in a constant race to the bottom. I definitely have to put more videos out just to avoid drowning in this war-slop soup designed to mislead you with fake stories that never actually happened, purely to farm watch time.

It’s sad, but beneath the surface of YouTube and every other tech company lies a misanthropic, anti-human, almost fascist system that seems to take perverse sexual satisfaction in replacing humans with AIs whenever possible.

That’s why they reward AI slop channels with millions of views on their uploads through high impression rates.

Its their spawn.

Finally, about the use of music in my videos: my uploads on Telegram are generally free of any music, but on YouTube I have to add it in order to “soften” the raw combat material and prevent videos from being restricted. YouTube simply hates true stories and the unfiltered sound of heavy combat, so unfortunately there isn’t much I can do about that.

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BREAKING – Russia has achieved a breakthrough northeast of Pokrovsk. Together with the recent fall of Toretsk and Chasiv Yar, Russian forces, if able to expand this bridgehead, could not only put Ukrainian defenders inside Pokrovsk in serious trouble but also tighten the gap towards Kostyantynivka. This breakthrough comes at the worst possible moment for Ukraine, as later this week a meeting between Putin and Trump is scheduled, in which Ukrainian territorial concessions to Russia are reportedly set to be a central point of the negotiations. In short it looks pretty bad for Ukraine. It is highly likely that the Russian high command, in light of the upcoming meeting between Putin and Trump, has tightened the reins and deliberately pushed for this breakthrough with the specific goal of using it as leverage on the political stage. The losses may have been correspondingly high, but it is still too early for visual confirmation based on geolocated videos.

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Better open up some more content farms with all that donation money.

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Real footage of an exoatmospheric space battle over Israel: https://youtu.be/x0L3UJFTp2o

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Israeli air force strikes Iranian F-14 fighter jets. Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/x0L3UJFTp2o

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Oh look what we have here, folks. This isn't the first time YouTube has preemptively sabotaged my channel with anti-competitive actions. One day before the Ukraine war started, for example, I was completely demonetized presumably under the assumption that I was just another content farm chasing money and would shut down my operations. Of course, I didn’t. Instead, I single-handedly dominated war coverage during the first two months of the conflict and every video had over a million views. As punishment for this affront, I was banned from appearing in breaking news results, meaning that if I publish videos in real time or like in the lastest case in timely manner, they receive almost no impressions what means no chance to be seen. The void is then filled by mainstream media, smart content farms who bot themselves in between the rankings and a group of new age warfluencers. This also happened the last time there was a major exchange between Israel and Iran. There I was among one of the first to report on this but my video received no impressions at all. Now, for the first time my gut feeling correlates with official news reports and government statements. Thank you very much for this information.

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Iranian missile hits Israel. Check my channel to watch the video explaining everything.

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I know I’m not entitled to views and maybe my last video wasn’t great, but this impression rate is a joke. At the very least, show it to my subscribers so they can decide for themselves whether to watch it or not.

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Iranian drone on its way to strike Israel is intercepted mid-air. Watch my latest video about the Israel-Iran war here: https://youtu.be/x0L3UJFTp2o

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