{"id":47255,"date":"2026-02-22T19:11:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T19:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/why-fake-ai-videos-of-uk-urban-decline-are-taking-over-social-media\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T19:11:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T19:11:41","slug":"why-fake-ai-videos-of-uk-urban-decline-are-taking-over-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/why-fake-ai-videos-of-uk-urban-decline-are-taking-over-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Why fake AI videos of UK urban decline are taking over social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The young men in his videos are &#8220;roadmen&#8221;, a slang term for urban youth, often associated with drug dealing, he says, and are &#8220;cultural archetypes&#8221; that he frequently features in his videos. One post portraying roadmen in Parliament got eight million views in a day, he says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c4g8r23yv71o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The young men in his videos are &#8220;roadmen&#8221;, a slang term for urban youth, often associated with drug dealing, he says, and are &#8220;cultural archetypes&#8221; that he frequently features in his videos. One post portraying roadmen in Parliament got eight million views in a day, he says. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[8154,3234,2640,153,12081,1461],"class_list":["post-47255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-decline","tag-fake","tag-media","tag-social","tag-urban","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47257,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47255\/revisions\/47257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}