AI mocks Armenia-Azerbaijan talks: What are the most viewed videos on YouTube?
Violent slapstick videos that glamorize dictators and dunk on Trump have exploded in popularity on YouTube this year, becoming some of the most watched political content in 2025, Forbes writes.
Օne of the single most watched political videos on YouTube right now involves an AI-generated Vladimir Putin and Ali Khamenei setting a pack of pseudo-cartoon bears on Donald Trump and Bibi Netanyahu after Trump and Netanyahu push Khamenei out of a plane. It has more than 20 million views, nearly 150,000 likes, and variously hosts programmatic ads for ketamine, “stuck poop” solutions and “the world’s first mass produced exoskeleton.”
The video is one of thousands published by a cluster of YouTube accounts posting short, Tom-and-Jerry-esque AI-generated skits depicting world leaders in humiliatingly ludicrous scenarios. The reach of the videos is astonishing: Since they began appearing earlier this year, they have amassed more than 2.2 billion views.
According to the platform analytics company, Zelf, eight of the ten most viewed YouTube videos about Trump in 2025 came from this set of accounts. The largest of them, called Make AI Great Again, first went viral back in April for posting videos depicting U.S. officials as sweatshop workers in response to Trump’s announcement of aggressive tariffs against China. The sweatshop videos had earlier circulated on Chinese social media platforms, and were amplified by Chinese and Russian state media. The Make AI Great Again account brags that it has been “officially recognized by the White House.”
Since then, the accounts have continued to dominate discourse on YouTube, where their videos have also mocked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, French President Emanuel Macron and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, among others.
An account called Hatim’s Shorts featured Armenia-Azerbaijan negotiations.
The videos do not violate YouTube’s policies, because they are clearly identified by their creators as AI-generated fiction.
Many of the videos shared by the YouTube accounts have also spread across other platforms.
