Neural Viz

• June 26, 2024 to present
• Created by…?

“Exploring The Monoverse through past, present, and future broadcasts of multimedia-which includes the poorly reviewed show “Unanswered Oddities” and the critically slammed series “The Cop Files.”

Home of Tiggy Skibbles, a couple other alien-like creatures and a whole bunch of dumb videos.

Hoomans ain’t real, brother.”

Neural Viz is a weird little YouTube channel that I first encountered on Facebook. Like millions of individuals on this planet I was viewing random shorts while laying in bed. The particular clip I encountered was a snippet of a much larger video from the channel. It involved a gumball maker while trying to make a more orange gumball opened a portal to an inter-dimensional entity and the individual at the end of the clip says these things just happen.

This clip kept popping up from seemingly various sources. The bizarre nature and undeniable hilarity (at least to me) of the whole thing inspired me to find the source on YouTube to see if there was more. To my surprise there were plenty. Not just to the clip but from the creator of that very clip. What I discovered was a surreal series of AI generated videos that are humorous and absurd and very much out there.

There are two lines of videos: the Nonoverse and the Monoverse. The former is relatively random and largely unconnected. They may share a similar inspiration but do not appear to be creating a single universe. The breakout and the one that appears to be becoming the focus of the creator’s efforts is the Monoverse and that will be my focus here.

The Monoverse (so far containing Unanswered Oddities, The Cop Files, Bornug Reviews All, Gluron Dating Show, and The Church of Z) are not a collection of random, unconnected videos. There is a story running through them all. Separately they’re funny. Together they craft a single narrative of a society controlled by an all-powerful being that crushes dissent and has distorted if not completely obliterated knowledge of the past in order to maintain control. Humanity is their equivalent of bigfoot to the creatures collectively known as glurons.

This is an odd and entertaining channel. I’m not sure how much of what we get is a result of what the AI interprets commands as and what is the result of input by the creators. My understanding of how these AI generators works is very limited. That doesn’t matter. It’s a completely unique world detached from our reality with its own distinct logic present even if that logic is insane. That logic is discernable and can be followed in its stupidity. How that happens is a credit to the creator. This is something that I would think would appear on Adult Swim.

With Neural Viz there doesn’t appear to be a definitive release schedule. There’s no logging on to YouTube on Friday or Saturday or whenever at a particular time to catch the latest release. I find that annoying though I understand it. On the one hand it doesn’t put pressure on them to have things out that may not meet their standards and it also forces people that find it interesting to like the channel which helps them grow.

To do what is done here in a more conventional way would be cost prohibitive. At only a few minutes long it would be quite expensive to hire actors and apply prosthetics and other elements to bring these to fruition. Sets alone that some of this would clearly require would break the budget.

There is an amazing amount of world building in this. Watch them independently and you’ll pick up on how this and that connects but watch in a row one after the other and you will see elements from previous videos later on down the road. For something so weird and surreal it has an amazing amount of plot development and thought put into it. 

I would say the breakout star has been Tiggy Skibbles. Then again he had the first distinct storyline that I can recall. Prior to him it was a much broader story about this fictional reality. Tiggy is blunt and to the point and really wants to get paid and smoke dirt. That is a thing here. Officer Snarbo though no longer part of the videos for reasons has gotten his own fanbase.

The humor is random and the punchline is the climax of the video. Some of it is ironic and some of it is weirdly intelligent. Who makes a mass/velocity joke?! These are high-quality because there isn’t time wasted for anything extraneous to what the immediate topic is. The humor pokes fun at broad cultural elements. Religion, street interviews by YouTube content creators or sports, politics, and exercise. All while building other plots and introducing characters that grow and develop along the way.

With weird humor and the brilliant use of AI, Neural Viz has created addictive comedy. I highly recommend you subscribe to this on YouTube.