Screen Culture and KH Studio are no more; YouTube has deleted their channels, wiping out dozens of fake film trailers in the process. Months after YouTube demonetised them, the platform has deleted a pair of prominent channels altogether. For years, the channels Screen Culture and KH Studio specialised in generating fake film trailers, which garnered ... YouTube has deleted two major channels which specialised in fake film trailers
Screen Culture and KH Studio are no more; YouTube has deleted their channels, wiping out dozens of fake film trailers in the process.
Months after YouTube demonetised them, the platform has deleted a pair of prominent channels altogether.
For years, the channels Screen Culture and KH Studio specialised in generating fake film trailers, which garnered millions of views and built up sizeable user bases. Combined, the channels had around two million subscribers.
Both used generative AI to churn out a regular stream of fake trailers, many of them for movies that haven’t yet been released. While the tell-tale signs of fakery were easy to spot, they occasionally fooled the unwary – one of Screen Culture’s Superman trailers ended up being picked up by a French TV station in 2024, which evidently mistook it for the real thing.
Movie studios may also have been irked by how popular the faux promos were; as we discovered earlier this year, an AI-generated Alien: Earth trailer ended up appearing beneath the real thing – something we’re sure delighted Disney.
In March, YouTube took the step of turning off advertising revenue for the channels’ videos – though presumably, this didn’t stop the fake trailers from appearing. As reported by Deadline, YouTube has now taken the more drastic step of deleting Screen Culture and KH Studio altogether.
A visit to either channel throws up the usual “This page isn’t available” message. YouTube hasn’t commented on the move at the time of writing.
YouTube hasn’t magically solved the fake trailer situation on its channel, either. Such channels as Macam Studios, Teaser Tube and CineStorm Studios have all published trailers for Fast X: Part 2 in recent months ( a film that hasn’t even been written yet, to the best of our knowledge).
Most of those videos at least have ‘concept’ of ‘fan trailer’ in their titles, which helps avoid confusion to an extent. It was Screen Culture and KH Studio’s failure to mark their trailers in the same way that seemingly provoked YouTube’s wrath.
Whether YouTube will continue to play whack-a-mole with accounts like this is unclear. And with the advent of Sora 2 and similar platforms, and Disney signing a deal which will allow its characters to appear on the platform’s AI-generated output, the internet will soon be flooded with yet more pop cultural slop.
We’ll bring you more on the collapse of mainstream entertainment as it comes in.
