People are using the popular AI video generator Runway to make real videos of murder look like they came from one of the animated Minions movies and upload them to social media platforms where they gain thousands of views before the platforms can detect and remove them. This AI editing method appears to make it harder for major platforms to moderate against infamously graphic videos which previously could only be found on the darkest corners of the internet.
The practice, which people have come to call “Minion Gore” or “Minion AI videos” started gaining popularity in mid-December, and while 404 Media has seen social media platforms remove many of these videos, at the time of writing we’ve seen examples of extremely violent Minion Gore videos hosted on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and X, which were undetected until we contacted these platforms for comment.