3 items tagged “james-bridle”
2017
Something is wrong on the internet. James Bridle takes a fascinating and deeply troubling dive into the world of Kids’ YouTube videos, which appear to be increasingly algorithmically generated and are evolving in a very dark direction.
In the official timeline, Peppa is appropriately reassured by a kindly dentist. In the version above, she is basically tortured, before turning into a series of Iron Man robots and performing the Learn Colours dance. A search for “peppa pig dentist” returns the above video on the front page, and it only gets worse from here.
2009
A New Theory of Awesomeness and Miracles, by James Bridle, concerning Charles Babbage, Heath Robinson, MENACE and MAGE. I didn’t go to Playful ’09, but I really wish I had.