The Philippines ranked as the top 19th country where trending YouTube AI slop channels have the most views, according to new research by video editing platform Kapwing.
Filipinos represented 1.16 billion total views on trending AI slop channels.
The country has around 59 million YouTube users representing about 85 percent of all Filipino internet users, based on the Digital 2026 report released by Meltwater and We Are Social.
The key finding of Kapwing’s study is that between 21 to 33 percent of YouTube’s feed could consist of AI slop or brainrot videos.
It defines AI slop as “careless, low-quality content generated using automatic computer applications and distributed to farm views and subscriptions or sway political opinion.”
Meanwhile, brainrot is “compulsive, nonsensical, low-quality video content that creates the effect of corroding the viewer’s mental or intellectual state while watching; often generated with AI.”
Brainrot videos are said to account for around 33 percent of the first 500 YouTube shorts on a new user’s feed.
Kapwing manually researched the top 100 trending YouTube channels in every country to isolate the AI slop channels. It then retrieved the number of views, subscribers, and estimated yearly revenue (using the midpoint values) for these channels.
The study aggregated these figures for each country’s AI slop channels to get an idea of their popularity.
Additionally, the platform created a new YouTube account and recorded the number of AI slop and brainrot videos among the first 500 YouTube Shorts it cycled through to get an idea of the new-user experience.
