Ray William Johnson: The King of AI Slop.

Recap

Jack opens by acknowledging Ray William Johnson’s long YouTube career, from Equals Three and Your Favorite Martian to his current true-crime videos. He notes that Ray’s daily posts now attract huge audiences, especially on TikTok. The video’s central criticism is that Ray’s storytelling has become heavily dependent on AI-generated images and clips, often depicting real victims, killers, and events in a cartoonish or inaccurate way.

Jack points out examples that make the AI use obvious: merged hands, a man with seven fingers, strange-looking cash, the misspelled word “Benadryl,” and images that barely resemble the people they are meant to show. Some AI video snippets look especially mangled. Jack jokes that the errors are so plentiful he assembled an 11-minute compilation. He also notices recurring quirks, including crowds dressed in purple and the same mustachioed “policeman” appearing repeatedly.

The tone turns more serious when Jack objects to using AI imagery to depict real tragedies and criticizes the sanitized language some true-crime creators use to avoid platform filters. He mocks phrases like “takes his own life,” arguing that euphemisms can make real deaths feel strangely infantilized. He also criticizes Ray’s dramatic sound effects—“blam blam,” “kaboom,” and what Jack hears as a Tom and Jerry-style scream during a fatal plane crash—saying they make real violence feel like a comic-book scene.

One particularly jarring example is an older Ray video that ends with a man’s suicide, then immediately thanks Leonardo.AI for sponsoring the video and promotes making “epic images.” Jack checks the full upload and its comments to show that the ending was not simply spliced together. Later, he pokes fun at another Leonardo.AI ad featuring a cute AI kitten, contrasting its cheerful pitch with the grim true-crime content around it.

Jack also calls Ray hypocritical for mocking an American Idol contestant’s AI-generated love songs while relying heavily on AI art himself. At the same time, Jack agrees with Ray’s objection to someone cloning his voice without permission, then points out that Ray’s videos use AI images to portray celebrities such as Kim Kardashian. He notes that AI images of Kenan Thompson can drift so far from the real person that they start to resemble unrelated celebrities.

The video argues that Ray’s use of AI has grown over time. Jack finds older storytelling videos with little or no AI, then traces what he sees as a gradual shift toward relying on it for much of the visual storytelling. He estimates that, at roughly four minutes of AI visuals per daily eight-minute video for two years, the total would be about 48 hours—not the “48,667 hours” he briefly blurts out before correcting himself. The math slip becomes a joke in its own right.

Jack’s theory for why viewers rarely complain about the AI is that they are absorbed in the crime stories and questions of guilt and justice. To illustrate, he compares Ray’s comment sections with the response to a courtroom reality show featuring Jack’s editor Shawn, who appeared under the name Rex. Viewers focused on the dispute, even though the show was scripted and used actors.

Jack concludes that the issue is not simply that Ray uses AI, but that using it so extensively helps normalize replacing artists—especially in stories about real people and real suffering. He challenges Ray to return to telling compelling stories without AI visuals and urges him to pay artists and credit creators. A brief SimpliSafe sponsorship break also appears during the video.

Personalities and Organizations Mentioned

• Jack (Jacksfilms) — Host and critic
• Ray William Johnson — Subject of the video
• Shawn, appearing as Rex on the courtroom show — Jack’s editor and friend
• Judge Milian — Host of Justice for the People
• Krista Pike — Subject of one of Ray’s videos
• Kim Kardashian and Kenan Thompson — Celebrities depicted in Ray’s AI visuals
• Friendly Neighborhood Artist — Credited by Jack for research on Ray’s AI criticism and voice-cloning comments
• Leonardo.AI and SimpliSafe — Sponsors discussed in the video