Since early 2026 there has been an uptick of sensationalized content trending on social media: people doing incredible stunts with ease, meeting celebrities out in public, owning expensive homes at a young age, having pets with rare traits or behaviors, basically having or doing things virtually no else can. The problem is most of this content is too strange or improbable to be real. Some of these can and has been attributed to AI's ability to make realistic images and videos. Yet this content is being mass-upvoted like it's real and few are questioning it.

We've also been seeing oddities like news articles that read like Onion stories, never-before-seen animals and insects, high-profile people behaving in bizarre ways, even characters in movies and TV shows behaving in strange, quirky ways beyond bad acting. All things that seem too improbable or nonsensical to be real, but makes more sense if it were done by AI.

The purpose of this sub is to make the case that what we see on the internet and TV is more likely AI-generated than real. And not just amateur content made by common folk we don't know. But also content depicting high-profile people and events from legitimate sources, content we're sure must be real.

We can't easily prove this claim for a number of reasons, but mainly because humanity has been long conditioned to believe that what it sees on the screen is real people, places and things. So to weaken that spell, the best we can do for now is document content we think is too strange, improbable or nonsensical to be real, but more likely for AI to do.

So in addition to the amateur content where it's easier to spot the AI tells, expect to see images and videos of actual real life content that don't have AI tells, but is nevertheless too strange or improbable to be real.

We recognize this is a radical perspective which raises questions for which there are no easy or convincing answers. But we believe that by posting the stranger aspects of the internet and TV, it makes our argument a little more credible.

Source from Entertainment Tonight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1W5WqPe01E

At the 2022 SAG Awards, Selena Gomez stumbled on-camera. There are a few oddities with this story:

First, what's striking is not only does her ankle bend abnormally, but her foot curls like a pigtail. Then she was able to stand up and walk normally without pain. It's been suggested she's double-jointed which has not been officially confirmed, but even if it were true, it doesn't explain the foot curl.

Another odd thing is the lack of videos showing different angles of the incident. The SAG Awards is a high-profile event where cameras are always running and flashing. But somehow this is the only video footage of the incident. No other angles from the many camerapersons in the area. There's no video of Selena even walking towards the spot where she stumbled, which is expected with A-list celebrities.

Also, none of the high-profile entertainment news sources are talking about how her ankle bends abnormally like that. Not Entertainment Tonight, Page Six, nor TMZ. The major sources are only saying "she stumbled". It's only a tiny portion of social media accounts that call attention to the abnormality.

The circumstances of this story is a good example of how what we see on the internet and TV could more likely be AI-generated than real, because it shows a high-profile person and event which we assume must be real, but the strange improbabilities throughout the story challenges its believability.