Please tell me there are a dozen of these groups that exist so I can watch more of this conspiracy content. I am here for it!

This is almost like yhe van life girl. This video should get alot of attention because it exposes alot of stuff that has been exposed by other youtubers. You did a great job also that company has been linked to doing stuff like this for safe marketing influencers to sell and advertise for companies. Good job man been watching for so long i cant remember.

totally was sucked into this video. love it!

This may be best video you've ever done. I'm grateful you've exposed this. I haven't yet put my finger on it, but this is some evil and sinister stuff.

This type of investigative video is so fascinating to me, and doubly so when it’s this subject. If you haven’t seen it already I’d recommend watching “The nightmare videos of children’s youtube” Ted Talk, it’s by a guy named James Bridle. It explores what I’m pretty sure is happening here, what with the content farming and the millions of bots and the gibberish comments that are likely toddlers being left with an iPad unattended. Truthfully the answer is probably nothing more than “it’s for money”, and that’s obviously fine! Let them make money! But I think people, myself included, find that the soulless nature of it all is pretty sinister lol. Great video Grady!! I hope you feel better having passed on your personal Ringu curse lmao

My thoughts exactly, it makes me feel like there's going to be an iceberg video about all of this in the distant future 😆

Same

Because they want our lives! Wasting our time brings them money... Interesting, huh? Never heard of this guy, nor the girls.

Same!

Why did I watch this entire video. Fuck sake

No kidding, not that i don't like CM, but it's far and few.

I’m in that boat too. I actually never listen to country music but I watched this whole video 😅🤷

Yeah I’m like “wait…how did I get here…” but also I can’t stop watching

I dislike country music so much (& my Mother is from Saskatchewan!) that if I go into a store that is playing loud country, I have to take a deep breath and power shop so I can get in and out as quickly as possible before my soul starts going down a sadness spiral... and I was recommended this video and watched it until the last second

yup , weird indeed 🎉

That's what worried me the moment he mentioned their dad being their manager and them missing out on college. He's been making this a career for them since they were kids and if he's the one whose still controlling everything and he's realized the cash he can make off this weird baby content, everything makes way more sense to me. I hope the girls are at least able to enjoy their "success" at least...

@@okayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy reminds me of the Shaggs. which honestly is the better band

Was gonna comment that they also performed in my town for our church’s youth group. So weird to see this video 10+ years later

I watching this video right after watching the Duggar family Duggar documentary on Prime where Jill talks about how she received 0 money from the shows and it went all to the dad. These twins seem robotic. I think you might be right.

Thanks for your "vibes" about what "maybe" was happening in 2013 lol

I‘m thinking this exactly while watching this video!

This is fucking gold. lol

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

YESSSS 😂

Ha! Yes!

💀

Boosting because you're exactly right. I just watched another TikTok creator do a video explaining so much weird content as being fetish-specific. It would be so interesting to know how those sisters came to understand that market, and how they decided to get involved in it. Maybe a savvy manager got ahold of them and explained all the money they could be making. What a departure from their Baptist Country roots.

My brain 🧠 just exploded....because this all makes sense!

Ohhh and I was thinking they bought followers or something. But this makes a lot of sense.

@darukineo i think it's a mixture of both!!! fetish farming and bought followers.

YES YES YES to this..... exactly!!!!

our man basically sold them into modern slavery not adding them to his play list XD

Same girl

Same here, I dunno how I feel. It's annoying

Same! 😂

Imr!!???? -“ thank God it ain’t fucking me this time!!” -what you and I are thinking!! 😂😂😂😂

We are infected lol

He's a good promoter

Reminiscent of Milli Vanilli

Then why wouldn't American kids watch it? It's mostly Indonesian, Pilipino, Brazilian viewers

If this is being targeted at them, which it can perfectly well be the case, there's something very, very wrong with these girls.

@@DonnaDoveWinters Those demographics can't go to Twitter easily and cancel KZfaq by tomorrow. I also doubt their parents would understand that this is creepy fetish material and would find no reason to. This type of thing was exposed nearly a decade ago, it definitely seems it's finding a resurgence.

Totally! When he showed the top KZfaq creators they were among the ones watched by kids. Gross cause some of the content is giving me fetish vibes like 5 minute crafts and kids are watching this.

this also explains why younger non english viewers would watch them too. less language, more visual. i would imagine more visual content could translate to more viewers worldwide, without a language barrier to separate them. and obvs the fetishy aspect probs plays into to their viewership too. but sadly fetish/kids content have had a disgusting blend as of lately.

And I thought I knew about kinks.. balloon popping is a new one to me. Wild

They're fans are on FetLife!!😂😂😂😂

ur racist

Caraca, pior que esse vídeo foi recomendado hoje também do nada, mas acabei me intrigando com a história kkkkk

Foi recomendado pra mim também hahahaha, assisti tudo e AMEI

Eita!!

If you watch commentary, thats probably why it got recommended to you. Thats how it got recommended to me.

@@3v068 Yep. Seems to be the case. With regards 0 interest in music related content here and especially country lol, from Sweden

I feel like “Borderline” is VERY generous of you to say. lol

I thought the same thing but then i remembered being a kid in a strict house and it did nothing for me, and i was a kid/teen before the internet I still saw porn from the kid that had the hidden magazine in the woods, still heard and saw shit that my parents didn't want me to, and when my very strict father died when i was 11 i quickly went down hill and by 18 i would consider myself a drunk and budding drug addict, which became a full blown drug addict by 21/22 and was hooked on pain pills for 15+ years. Not telling anyone how to parent but with my daughter i told her anything she wanted to know and didn't make it scary, didn't try to make her think what i wanted (my parents always told me that drugs and alcohol will kill you or at least put me in jail without telling me why people would even think about doing them, so when i tried them i knew they just lied to me and treated me like a dumb kid) i told my daughter the truth as best i could and explained things through my experiences, shes only 13 but so far, so good. Shes funny, caring, stands up for others, hasn't touched drugs or alcohol, tells me when her friends do, and the most important thing to me that she does, that i was too afraid to do as a kid is, she comes to at least one of us to talk about important things in her life, if not both of us, and thats all i really want from her is to feel comfortable enough to talk to us if she needs help. And im not some hippy dippy, free range, blah blah blah, im old school in a way, i have anger issues due to my past that she helps keep in check, ive punished/yelled at her but ive always taught her if she feels im in the wrong then challenge me and state your case, if im wrong and she makes a good argument then i go over it with her and apologize, also that i have very little control over her now and in a few years ill have absolutely no control of what she does or who she becomes so its my job to make sure at 18 she can leave if she wants to and she'll be prepared for the world ahead of her, which includes me talking to her at 4yrs old about kid nappings and sexual creeps, explaining as best i could why these people do these things, what to look out for, as a women she has a way higher chance of being attcked, etc. Never held anything back but when i told her about something new it wasnt a 5 minute convo, it was 30/60 mins right then and there, and also reminders and new information i might have forgotten or described wrong. Shes only 13 and it could go to shit next week but im proud of the young lady she is, and positive about the amazing woman she'll become. Sorry this was long but i gush over my daughter when children are brought up because i can't believe a loser like me that fucked up 2/3rds of his life by the time she was born could be 33.3% involved in helping a beautiful soul like hers flourish (her mother 33.3%, me 33.3% and my daughter herself is the other 33.3% because kids are sponges but not all of them learn the same, like me who was a total fuck up for 30 years)

If you dont want to read that whole comment i guess the bottom line of it was kids outside of your home will show/teach/say/do/etc your kid things they don't have access to or knowledge of so the way i looked at it was, I'd rather teach her how to use these things that are everywhere and not going anywhere, including teaching her about all the bad so that when she is shown things by others she knows how to handle herself. Basically i love that little shit and im proud of who she is right now. If you dont teach them, someone else will.

@@thegreendank1 that’s you. Not everyone’s journey will be the same

@@thegreendank1 paragraphs are your friend, friend.

I assumed as much tbh 😂😂😂😂

post the video to your youtube i’d love to see it

@@flobz7465 He said they weren't allowed to record.

@@belajadevotchka2 oh i read it wrong oops

The balloon popping screams some type of fetishized thing to me

what ...? not allowed to record.... ??? who ever does that...???

I was thinking this. They took an already famous person/bands name. It’s completely possible some of their sponsors thought it was Taylor Swift.

@@simplesimply3753 lol I highly doubt the sponsors thought they were Taylor Swift haha, that would be a big brand deal there’s no way they could overlook that.

I thought that straight away but for the opposite reason. If people type in Taylor Red, looking for Taylor Swift's album Red, they could come across their channel and subscribe. Especially since they're a country band, they might have been hoping on some of Taylor's fans who love her old country style. They will have been disappointed but I know I've subbed to channels before based on one video then never watched anything else of theirs again but just never bothered to unsub. It'd explain their high number of followers to low numbers of views ratio, to some degree anyway.

especially with the "TV" after their username... after the release of Red (TV)

@@ravencce Good catch! I don't know how I didn't notice that myself.

It's 'subliminally fetish-y'

Kids content and fetish content overlap immensely, especially on tiktok. Often on purpose to maximize amount of viewers. Very disturbing imo

The very visual/non-verbal focus also opens up the markets they can reach: literally anyone who has eyes, no need to speak the same language or any yet for that matter:)

this, so true.. I really wonder whatever happened? Or why did companies even bother back then to produce e.g. cartoons with a proper story? I already felt that same weird way when the switch to 3d-animated cartoons happened. Most of all I wonder whose parents would ever allow their kid to watch this kinda tiktok brain-melting, cringy garbage? It physically pains me.

It’s fetish stuff. The food and drinks exploding on them, balloons popping, triplets…. And countless more weird shit.

Well, I for one watch exposes a lot abs tons of music videos so it’s not outlandish that a music channel that does exposes would be recommended to me despite the genre. It’s not that deep. I hate country music, but finding out another industry Plant group exists. It’s fascinating to me.

Well I personally have been watching lots of TikTok expose/analysis videos lately, so for me this recommendation makes sense 😄

Yes, KZfaq kept pushing this to me, too!

KZfaq is an 80% male audience discussing conspiracies and corruption.

Same for me. This was recommended to me, so I thought “Why not?”, but I watch zero music contents on KZfaq. Literally zero. This is kind of weird.

Agreed

Clearly, a sort of Jamie Spears situation going on here.

@@marcelaleiva1043 yep thats what i think

Too bad "wear yellow if you need help" won't work since they've probably done any absurdity possible. Plus they don't engage with comments so probably not allowed onto social media. Shit, this could be real bad. And how many more other cases of this kind of slavery that we haven't heard about..

My mom used to buy Insta comments/likes/followers from a weird website called Fiver (she wasn't even trying to be an influencer, she just liked the validation even though it was fake... I also think she was trying to get attention from a celeb she had a crush on, LONG STORY). But yeah the comments and engagement of these videos looks a LOT like that. Same weird spammy comments, and inflated fake engagement. They probably intended to do a 'fake it until you make it' thing, but kinda like Grady said, ended up realizing the algorithm responded to fake viewership and actually dragged some real viewership in, which generated real money... Something they weren't really making before. Being real "artist" like Travis Scott did that, and actually found real success from it. I feel indifferent as its probably more bands/singers than any of us would think got their start doing crap like this. That being said, I don't like the slightly fetlshy vibe being mixed with something clearly made for children. That... Is actually off-putting.

Of course. Anytime you see a very young family "band" on the pop "music" scene, it's always as a result of the parents. See: the jackson 5, billie eilish, Taylor swift, all the rest...

China Inc. sowing confusion and discord in the US.

Seems like TikTok is functioning as the ultimate infant babysitter these days

TikTok is CCP cyber weapon designed to destroy the minds of American youth.

Their content is def fetish content, not actually intended for kids. The balloons were the dead giveaway.

And also owned by the Chinese government and operated as a way to build databases on people. The app takes all your videos pics locations texts etc.

Came here to say this. I think they chose that name so people who were looking for that album or that music, they’d get lost and find them accidentally.

Taylor is there last name and they have red hair

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@alyssa2796 curious what exactly you mean "easy to hide it under Taylor Swift"?

@@AdamCasada its like the thought that disnyey made frozen/called it frozen so people wouldnt google results about walt disneys head being frozen

It feels like grooming content for some reason. That or the kind of child-adjacent fetishey content that weird adults would consume. Both? Idk it creeps me out

ITS ACTUALLY A FETISH THING...

@@alexia3552 Likely the latter, but it immediately reminded me of those baking videos that have creepy voiceovers of awful stories that groom kids.

Don’t have any kids. If I ever do I’m gonna do my darnedest to keep them from screens until adulthood. Might as well give them hard drugs as let them have a cmeraphone

Y’all must have never had any fun. I assume y’all also never watched three stooges or icarly. I have 2 kids and they like this type of content it’s honestly mind numbing but so was high school musical for the 15th time my parents had to watch it. Children don’t have refined tastes that doesn’t mean they never will

I'd bet you're probably pretty close to the truth here.

It would seem so incredibly shallow to me if I was one of the sisters. The three of them have to be completely on the same page with this bizarre and lukewarm content. How long can they pursue making these soulless videos? Perhaps after Grady's expose we'll get some honesty.

This is 100% it.

considering where their views and comments are from i think this is 1000% what is happening

@@OlYables as long as it makes bank

I miss the tramp stamp drama , that’s also why I am watching this video 😂

SAME

Now what I found odd is that I hadn't heard about the Tramps stamps at all, yet found three channels i regularly follow who had talked about the tramp stamps and I just missed happened to not see their videos. I think when it comes to the algorithm stuff, all of it makes sense if we had more of an honest explanation of how it chooses what it thinks we want to watch.

Same!!

Yeah, I was waiting for the photos of Taylor Red at Stonewall.

The Taylor Swift thing makes a ton of sense. It's similar to how the Beach Boys likely became famous because when shopping for records they were almost always right next to the Beatles in alphabetical order. Of course the beach Boys didn't immediately come off as weird, creepy, and fake like these sisters did. There's something that's so disingenuous and weird about them that beckons me to learn who the hell is really behind this, and what they must be like in everyday life. I think some people truly are NPCs.

Did they sing live?

My only theory is they have a manager who's focusing on tiktok but is too old to know how to actually engage with it, so they use bots and algorithmic content instead of actually promoting music. Haven't finished the video yet so I'll see if I'm right

@halohanni1073 did they sing or just meet and greet?

They sang and they were very talented

@@amberwingtundrawing776 i think the same, they signed to bad company or just that company actually want more viral/view so the band more known worldwide before doing the actual thing. Lol

That actually makes so much sense🤯

@@straww_berryyy that's smart

I've thought the same.

edit: i was thinking of Taylor's song "...Ready for it" and confused the titles whoops. thanks @fullsunenthiast for pointing that out! original comment: And "wait for it..." is the name of another Taylor Swift song that people are on the lookout for, since it hasn't been re-released as a "Taylor's Version" yet. So any Taylor Swift fan seeing the name Taylor + "Wait for it..." is definitely going to click, or at least be confused for a minute.

Absolutely. Everything about them seems like they have a parent or manager that is pushing them. Like, cramming them down in people's throats until you have no choice but to choke them down.

I am weirded out by why people watch them. I keep getting crap like that in my tiktok feed and can only stop it by blocking the channel. Which takes longer than it does to skip to the next.

I am genuinely not understanding the appeal in the short looping videos in general. I think its my brain though. I have tried to engage with it and i find it just shows me crap videos and the ones i like are not worth seeing 100's of crap. I had the same feeling with vine. I just dont get it.

@@brettmastema7056 its kids that don't really make choses

@@nate567987 well, that's why there are parents, and if the parents are not doing their job. Then it's not society's job to be obligated to safeguard the world for them. If the parent is harming the kid remove the kid and put them in foster care.

Lol half the reason I watched the whole video was to see if Grady would somehow inadvertently spill the beans so I could also stop my 9-5 grind and pop balloons, making hundreds of thousands of dollars each month

100%

I think in spite of how mysterious it might look, it's just this simple. A buck's a buck, you know.

I will totally pop the shit out of some balloons for that kind of income. You can always create the art you love when you have the capital from doing the crap that is just for the money.

They are triplets. That's their cash in. Everyone would find it amusing 3 identical young atractive red hair girls doing inuendo things. Dressing in bright colors, having their hair done in three diferent ways, talking at the same time. Its true: is all obtain trough fetishist fishing. They can loose youth, become to old to do this things but... they would still be tripplets. So.. cashing!

I disagree and think their live voices sound great, but I do agree that they're being controlled and that that probably has a lot to do with the way they're perceived by people who actually know them off the internet.

@@torontoluck I agree, they sound fine live, and it is very likely they are being controlled.

@@torontoluck when have you seen them live?

Is it their father that’s controlling or is it a situation where an agent/agency or producer exploits them and they think it’s the only way to make money?

I got the feeling of control, too. Their reactions and expressions all seem... curated, if that makes sense. Like they're redheaded barbie dolls.

THIS COMMENT RIGHT HERE! this is crazy dude what?!

@@briannasusz Need-more-info

@@XavierAlfeiranSainz good luck with your hunt man 🤞🏻 i know you’re scouring these comments rn 😂

@@briannasusz just think, it's an AI. "I'm totally a normal person and I've seen them in real life." Meanwhile, any real people out there ever see them? 😆 All deepfakes 😅😆

I was thinking the same, not legal action just if that was the reason for their name. Another comment mentioned they changed name about the same time as Taylor guitar sponsored them (I have no clue, never heard of them, I'll keep listening to that red album by the other taylor though :)

Same but then I figured since KZfaq is promoting them that's why this was promoted to us and newer content be KZfaq doesn't really know what the content is just as long as it's got the names they want. It was a great video and I couldn't stop watching.

While it may seem that when they changed their name to Taylor Red the triplets were intentionally hitching their wagon to the star of Taylor Swift's "Red" album, their name WAS actually Taylor and their hair was already red. The synergy is almost absurd, but there you have it. It's like when Mattel sued the Barbi twins for trademark infringement. It was "obvious" that they were profiting off their synergy with the Barbie doll, but their name WAS actually Barbi and they actually were buxom blondes. Mattel lost that lawsuit.

Pretty sure that's not how copyrights work. You can't copyright or trademark a commonly used word like red, and Taylor is a name so again, can't be copyrighted. If they had called themselves Taylor Swift-Red, then the other singer would have a case.

@@aislingoharrigan7543 I'm sure you're right, it wouldn't hold up in court. But sometimes lawyers will threaten legal action in hopes the recipient wants to not go to court at all. Mostly joking though. Sorry :)

Yes I've never heard of Grady Smith or these sisters but this randomly pop up and I just watched the whole video!

for real, i've listened to one (1) the white buffalo song and nothing else that's semi country, why am i here?

It’s funny cuz I’ve been terrorized by these triplets, they always show up in my recommended everywhere. KZfaq, instagram, Snapchat, etc and I always wondered the same exact things he did 😂 so seeing this pop up in my recommended was so perfect.

@@ruthhemmings5318 me too

This showed up on my feed and I'm not halfway through yet, but it feels like some sort of rabbit hole that would be covered by Nexpo, Night Mind or Nick Crowley. Maybe not an ARG but just one of those creepy tales of girls that are forced to make videos by some creep and you don't know what's going on behind the scenes.

I think they also paid for a lot of their views, followers and commentators on other platforms before randomly making it lucky on the KZfaq short algorithm.

I don't know if that explains all of it. I dont know we have an clear idea of the mindset or motivations of the girls or their managers or handlers (or even if that is part of it) or if they are knowing what about their content is consciously being done to manipulate the algorithm. I think this one is engaging people because you can't easily say "I see what is happening". I am going to try and see if i can ask a friend who used to work for a company that did that and see if she either can more confidently get what the deal is. Likely its the most boring answer though, Yet my brain still wants it answered.

A lot of people want to believe jibberish comments in other languages are just kids, but it's view bots and comment bots. They leave comments in tons of different languages often that font make sense. I think they bougtt almost all of their 10mil followers personally

finally.. i thought i was the only one who thought it had 5 minute craft vibes..

Yes! Another person who got it! Ahhgg I feel like someone else needs to do a real expose because I immediately put all the pieces together and you're covering two of them. Taylor Red is indeed a machine but it's powered by people. It's also just as much a front. What I will give them is its an insane blend of luck, aesthetic, a little bit of talent, the hard work of millions of people working in spam/content farms and a few powerful names to pull the strings, and dedication to working that damn algorithm. The luck is what really makes the algorithm work because all it takes is some tweaking to make big money wheh the starting product is three attractive red headed female triplets. That is a rare and powerful money making combination and they figured it out and made it work. And no Grady, they don't give a damn about being professional musicians anymore.

I find the entire process from content creation to how it is viewed to be completely odd and very sad. It's turning kids into zombies, which I'm sure is entirely the point.

I have job at place.

im an eastern european and travelled literally the whole europe... I've never seen a content farm... Only in China and similar asian countries. Stop belittling usm

Those fist pumps are super strange

@@smarti1144 They give me the heebie jeebies, lol

So help me but was only listening and not watching but when he described balloon popping, eating in weird ways my immediate thought was that these videos were for the creepers. Yes possibly also for the illiterate babies 😄 but largely for the weirdos

They are evangelical triplets who have never been allowed to be children or have a life so…… makes sense.

@@mamacito1795 Yeah it's absolutely tailored for both demographics. They are getting the creepers as well as the young kids whose brains are still pudding.

No it made me question everything again 😭

That response seemed like a computer generated generic response sent to any one who responds to them. I bet if I sent them something I would probably get the same response,

@@troypatterson6013 try it and let us know !!!! I’m so curious.

@@ThatGirlKia13 gonna do it, I'll be back

@@spaceedementia whatd they say?

My thought this whole video

I don’t think they’re playin anymore bc they are such big influencers now

You can't be somewhere that doesn't exists...

I was expecting that to happen at some point in the video

Fr i want them to come to my small town just so I can get live footage for this poor man

I am from Indonesia, not into country music, but their shorts, well its like pushed into our (me and my kids) endless scrolls of yt shorts. Best I can do to particular types of short videos (many worse) that are --I think-- 'not of our cup of tea', is just tap that "Don't recommend channel" button.

Yea idk about that Sounds like they saw what gets trendy Copied it Got a bunch of money And never stopped I think they wanted to start as a legit band but since that brought nothing to the table they probably had their label or whoever in charge of their social media Start having them post to tiktok with those brain dead viral videos🎃

What I don't get, is why these "content farms" choose such an uber cringe worthy style for videos? And more baffling is why this uber cringe stuff gets views at all?

@@nancyneyedly4587 little kids Bright meaningless content that can stare at and drool over with no real thought Little kids are basically born with an iPad in their hand so ofc they’ll do the quick scroll content without thinking They just see “omg Elsa” “Omg bright colors” “woAh balloons” and keep watching

I think you are 100% correct on the KZfaq Kids thing. I'll tell you why. I come from a family who currently consists of many kids in the "mom can I watch KZfaq on your phone/ipad?"- age/phase. I'm the type of person who usually go hang out with the kids at family gatherings, when I feel like the adults become too loud or political (usually followed by comments like "Are you sure you wanna watch the kids while we sit here drinking and talking elections/jobs/tell the same story 16 times? You dont have to if you don't want to/but please do it so we can gossip without having to worry if our kids are clogging the toilet with towels, like last time" and "Aww, look at her, she is amazing with kids.. Anyway, so this bitch Patricia from work is totally BJ'ing the boss"). The kids often sit with each of their parents phones, and kind of "doom scroll" through "kid friendly" KZfaq shorts (Im rarely able to convince them to do anything else). The videos are often the exact same format: Bright pastel colors, 1.5 speed, no sound other than uptempo background music, "pranks", "challenges", foods and liquids, and unboxing toys. And sometimes have the weird fetish-element, too subtle for kids to notice. And these 3 redheads have popped up NUMEROUS times, and across all the "kids with devices" I've encountered the past year. When I ask any of the kids who the people in the shorts are, they have no idea/just kinda shrug. Unless its someone dressed as a Disney character.

I'm wondering, if these girls actually know what they're doing. Like.. They are always on camera all 3 of them, and their dad is their manager and behind the live production company selling their shows. Just a thought: The dad has been surfing on some unsavoury sites encountering this fetish material, noticing how popular it is. "Hey, I have three pretty young daughters, and a big part of this fetish stuff is youtube friendly if you exclude nudity from it. You can make money there.... hmmm... I could probably get my girls to step on some balloons and mess around with food on camera... GIRLS!! GIRLS COME IN HERE, I HAVE AN IDEA!..."

Fetish content yep but I don't think they are the ones coming up with the ideas and I wonder if they realize the content is fetish related.

@@NobodysbbyYeah, the post claiming they may be controlled by their dad has me really creeped out. They seemed genuine and nice when I saw them perform live many years back. But they were teens. What if they want to be musicians and someone is making them do this fetish stuff to make money off them and the three girls think it’s a career move to get their band going? They had real musical talent (particularly one of them who played violin).

@@Andreamom001 I mean I see what your saying maybe it is the dad but we all thought the psychic twins were good people until slowly people realized they were con artists. I don't know but these girls just look dead in the eyes and their actions are very robotic. They don't look like they are ever actually having any fun. And he said they post 30-40 videos a day? I mean that's just weird no matter who or what is managing them. Whoever they are has a sinister side to them and in sure the girls are not aware if they are then I won't what other fetish related content they make that we are not aware of perhaps on other sites .

Oh my god not the fetish hand movements they make me so uncomfy

Either a legal situation (signed a contract/under threat), and/or some kind of artistic stunt - e.g. the little poppy videos. There are other strange internet phenomenon, this is probably the least of them. Another possibility is a weird kind of scam, a sort of catfishing where the original artists aren't aware they are being ripped off. That's unlikely but not impossible, and might partially explain the aversion to live music. OFC best way to know would be an actual interview. I'm not even sure if this video isn't some sort of publicity stunt. Anyways, weird stuff. 🤪

I feel like it mostly gets explained in the video - initially unpopular country band - follower inflation through bots - bizarre videos made for kids - getting views from said videos - artificially pumping out more of this brainless subhuman content. What I'm wondering about is why in the world did KZfaq themselves publicise them? That's what I find strangest of all.

God I can only imagine how weird this is to witness as a fan

Trolls gonna troll.

You mean the red sisters are trolls?

@@smsmsmsmsmsm It was! At first, when they rebranded as Taylor Red, I followed their music and Facebook page and it was fairly okay. But not too long after I remember the tic-toc algorithm putting them on my for-you page. I was like, what the heck?

​@@lordfahren they literally sold their soul._.

I don’t know, the Monkees have actually had several hits, some of which are still well known. These girls’ music not only isn’t popular, they are only known for their weird hijinks, and not for being a band at all.

@@TVChild3They have had hits, in circles, of small calibre, so far. So, they are very similar to early stage The Monkees. By mid-stage, everyone was questioning whether or not the could actually play their instruments and qualify to be a band, or were just manufactured and known for their hijinks. What we do not know is: will they become late stage Monkees who were recognized for their musical talent and popular hits, or just fade away as a TikTok sensation.

@@kevinmorbidthelostcronin1984 I personally doubt it but who knows. Country isn’t a popular genre outside of the US so I really doubt they would ever get an international hit like the Monkees did. But we’ll see!

@@TVChild3 I actual do not disagree with you. I think someone tried to find a modernized version of the formula, but lacks the talent of the original songwriters for The Monkees. My kids were shocked when one of their Dad's bop songs (I'm a Believer) from the car was in the brand new Shrek movie (showing my age). None of their songs are comparable to Daydream Believer.

same

Damn. That's sad. You're so boring. LOL

Same

same

I have no doubt they started genuine, but now it's clear subscribers and views were bought, the amount though, is huuuuge.. very expensive! Also seems to be some bots employed, for comments ..what I don't understand, how? If they really did all those concerts as Taylor red, how did NOBODY take any recordings of them!? Not one? And also, the fact that they just make shorts now, up to 30 a day!? That's insane!? So much, they don't even bother to name them different.. it would take atleast an hour to set up sone of those shorts, then you gotta edit, produce, and upload , how do they have so much time!? Such a strange phenomenon, I really hope they are o.k. , and that we get to the truth some day.. for their sake, aswell as our burning curiosity!

@@darianstarfrog I think this is common in a lot of social media sectors. People start out with one thing in mind, but ultimately find their “grift” in a niche…and sometimes have to change that again in a few years in case the channel goes dead. I think that’s reasonable…life is hard and sometimes plans don’t work out. Might as well make that easy money to support you and yours if you’ve lost the original passion.

So far neither Grady nor any comments I've read is addressing the elephant in the room, though -- that they probably didn't start "genuine," they clearly started because their family gassed them up to be a music trio. Which makes sense; one doesn't USUALLY learn multiple instruments by adolescence without coming from a musical family. A lot of teen musicians are legitimately talented, but very few are initially doing it for themselves so much as for their parents. (Not even getting into the niche aspect of Christian music industry.) Even outside of the music industry and parental approval, how many of us are still super focused on whatever our dreams and passions were at 14? If they've figured out "influencer" content (which isn't so unusual if you've spent time around small kids lately -- weird and robotic, sure, but yeah that's normal now; Troom Troom style) so they can fund their own lifestyle? It might not be selling out so much as simply pursuing their own careers. We don't all grow up to be astronaut ballerinas, or even still actually care about the things we did as kids. Even if that's still being managed, I just hope they get enough of the proceeds from it to enjoy themselves.

@@darianstarfrog You think maybe their views are through some kind of ai /computer programming ? Maybe some of their videos are ai deep fakes too?

@@darianstarfrog It's more likely that some footage was taken of them performing, the footage was posted on KZfaq and the people managing this, LiveOnStage, immediately send out a copyright strike and youtube removes the video. They may even send out cease and desists for good measure. It's possible that this company is also running their social media and may be the ones making most of the money, so they would have a vested interest in keeping them small. After all, when a band starts getting traction they are very likely to replace the small company, that got them there, for a larger one that, can take them farther.

It's like lofi kids show from before the internet. Idk why something simple bright and colorful can seem empty and depressing.

@@johnindigo5477 excellent way of putting it. It is very reminiscent of those low-budget public access tv shows for kids, except with even less substance and theme. It's like those spider man Elsa videos, and the people who make them are weird as hell including these girls. They don't care about or even like kids, they have zero passion for it, they just happened to stumble into this gold mine of low effort kiddie content.

That was my take, it's no different then all those creepy videos of people playing with dolls, low quality content for four year olds. These girls don't even have that great of a hustle, they could be putting in a lot less work for the same result.

Betcha Taylor Red gets bigger than shit when your five year old nephew's a teenager.

Elsagate

Oooo i like it

It’s kinda like Elsa gate

Not really that conspiracy-ish tbh. I do get major Slurms MacKenzie vibes from them though.

@@billhawkins5633 whimmy wam wam wazzle!!

@@seraphim7512 true that

Right! It was like telling a story or a deep journalist dive on the subject.

Hopefully a deep dive on Orville Peck ending with an interview where we find out his spot on his research was

Oh, definitely!

I agree! I was very captivated by this video for some reason. Lol

The Amazing Mysteries of Country Music, hosted by Grady Smith

The college I went to had a pair of twins that went out of their way to be exactly the same. They dressed the same, walked in sync, and tried their damndest to speak in unison and finish each others sentences. I think a lot of it was that we went to a small school so if you had a recognizable “thing” you’d be like a campus celebrity and they probably just enjoyed the idea of the attention but… for 4 years? 😬

Hahah I've always wondered if twins actually like the matching thing.

My younger brothers are twins and they have different personalities but very identical faces. Our Mom did the matching outfit thing and luckily in opposite colors coz it helped us identify one from the other when they were little. My Mom got really cute childhood photos and I dont understand why my brothers cringes when Mom posts them online. They hate wearing identical things and they're adults now so Mom cant make them do anything. As an elder sister who really loved having a pair of cute brothers I can dress up anyway I want, I wish they didnt grew taller than me.

that’s the thing i was always concerned about with twins )):

Honestly what's weird to me is these girls are 31 years old and they're making tiktok videos like they're teens. Not saying they're too old for tiktok but the content of their videos are what young teens do. It's like they started out as a serious act and when that didn't work out, they're trying to regress into a much younger audience, but now it's just comes off as weird.

It seems to tap into the same algorithm of those strange, and inexplicably popular "baby" videos of poorly-animated Disney and Marvel characters interacting and dancing to strange music and sounds. It's the "baby with an iPad" syndrome: flooding the platform with pablum like this is purely view-mining from these naive and (likely foreign, as you point out) markets.

I saw a video about Asian KZfaqrs doing the same thing. When he pointed out the weird costumes that reminded me of view miners.

Very astute

It makes way more sense in that light. I guess part of the uncanny aspect might be the same cultural barrier that makes Japanese game shows and commercials seem so bizarre to the rest of the world

Yup, I do think the content Taylor Red is doing is something that work yhe best for the non english audiences. All it requires is for you understand what is happening visually, so it removes a lot of barriers. I've also seen kids who don't yet know how to speak binging similar content. It's colorful, it's silly, it's strange. It's like dangling a set of shiny keys in the front of their eyes, with the difference they can quickly jump from one set of keys to other. Taylor Red, or who ever is behind them, is playing the algorithm game and is doing so very well. They've take the pages from the same play book as those Indian and Chinese KZfaq content farms, which push out similar content day after day. This whole thing is an enitrely self made problem for the social media platforms. In their quest of fast revolving contnent that creates endless revenue streams of advertisement money, they've created an eco system of this kind of mindless fluff.

Attractive, shallow, triplets, they certainly exceeded their potential.

I believe you’re dead on

This! I think it's obvious

Most of their followers being from Indonesia/India is a huge flag for bots

@@highbread817 INDIA!?No,no,no,no we only listen to our own music

But it's not creepy, it's just silly and stupid, the algorithm doesn't make people want, it feeds the want.

​@@dionysusnowIt is fetish content.

Kids, their target demographic, do not see this as "fetish" content, you do.

they push it to all of us but mostly young kids,

@@ToryIsCooliest "Fetish content" ?!?!??! Bro... what?

You should look up Friendly Jordies. Australian investigative journalist. Specifically his Bruz series. Fascinating stuff. Think you'd like it.

It's the entire reason for the absurd amount of views on this type of trash content, and is very similar to the Elsa Gate phenomenon.

Yes exactly

Correct.

Do you still have the CD?!?!?!?!?!

@@matthewstevenlinder Not sure. If we do, it’s buried in storage. But my family also moves a lot so purging is very normal for us and is more likely what happened to it. I remember liking the songs enough, though I’ve never been big into country music, that’s more my mom’s thing which is why she bought the CD in the first place. I even did fanart for them which they responded to on their Facebook (they were very small at the time, definitely didn’t have the huge TikTok following that they have now)

@@rellimeelrahc oh too bad. Would have been cool to hear what their music sounded like! But that's super cool either way.

@@matthewstevenlinder I still have the one we bought back then! My wife saw them as contestants on The Great Bible Challenge (hosted by Jeff Foxworthy) where they did, in fact, sing live during it and she bought their Red Roots CD (which was pretty good) and she or my son still play it from time to time.

But do you remember a cornucopia on the fruit of the loom label?

Well he still got you to engage, so that was a win to the algorithm.

Same. Lol

Same.

Yup that'll be me too

nice that there's a space for us folks

Same! He's very good at setting up the mystery and keeping us intrigued

what your saying reminds me of another case of a "chiristan" tiktoker i think that may be likely many people out there are trying to use chiristany or many other religions to excuse terrible behavior but even if its not that this case is still strange

It’s honestly so bizarre. They’re all so similar; someone must be directing this strange approach to entertainment production

i thinks it's absolutely kids watching this weird type of short. That stuff was banned because it hid lots of horrible things in it. These videos are weird but innocent.

There content is mostly fine and they're doing whatever gets them views. Just pumping out same silly content

@@Xander1Sheridan Exactly. These videos are completely innocent, but they just FEEL so insidious because they use a lot of the same tactics and content style as those horrible videos.

Agreed! I don't listen to country music at all and had no idea that they actually made music but I get their content pushed to me on KZfaq and Instagram.

I agree... they give me mind controlled vibs

I'm with you 100% When I went down the Tramp Stamps rabbit hole, it creeped me wayyy out and borderline scared me. But after learning about Taylor Red from Grady, the Tramp Stamps seem as authentic as Sturgill Simpson. And this video absolutely made me feel more than lightweight terrified. Imagining little kids essentially working as like-subscribe-comment slaves in some 3rd world clickbait sweat shop is a dystopian nightmare. But ironically, it almost feels more sinister to imagine children are voluntarily consuming this content out of their own free will (because even slaves have more agency than zombies). I also thought of Black Mirror, as Grady proposed. Taylor Red is a microcosm of an insipid virus in the greater social media landscape, and it fills me with revulsion. Somehow, I still feel like I need to go deeper down this demented rabbit hole. I just considered that in the near future, a video like this might be auto-generated by AI just for me, based on my internet footprint. Which would mean that Grady himself is an AI robot. Or maybe that isn't the future...it's actually what I just watched. Hahaha, sweet dear lord baby Jesus help me! Time to go for a walk.