"On September 28, 1.1 million Americans tuned in for the 37th season premiere of the groundbreaking animated sitcom The Simpsons. A little more than a week later, another groundbreaking animated sitcom had its season premiere: debuted on X, where it has accumulated 1.7 million views. Since then, three more episodes have been released, piling up more than 3.5 million additional views and generating seemingly as many memes. The show, which was created by a provocateur-cartoonist named Emily Youcis, is notable for at least two reasons."
"It appears to be one of the first popular online television series made with the assistance of artificial intelligence-Youcis drew the cartoon and wrote the script, then used OpenAI's Sora to bring the animation to life. And also, The Will Stancil Show is neo-Nazi propaganda. The Will Stancil Show is all but impossible to explain to someone who is not addicted to The Website Formerly Known as Twitter, but I'll do my best."
The Will Stancil Show debuted on X and quickly amassed millions of views across multiple episodes, generating widespread memes and viral attention. Emily Youcis created the series by drawing and scripting the cartoon and using OpenAI's Sora to animate it, making it an early example of AI-assisted online television. The series functions as neo‑Nazi propaganda produced by a self-declared national socialist who describes her views as Nationalist and Pro-White. The real Will Stancil is a Minneapolis lawyer and social-media figure who attracts far‑right hostility for his liberal, policy-focused persona.
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