21st Century Mouse

Here’s a Teaser from "STAR‑BABES & STARSHIPS 21 | SPECIAL EDITION". The full Special Edition is now streaming on our Patreon, free to watch with the 7‑day trial on any tier. Use this link to try out the different membership tiers; Support Crew, Bridge Access & Command Deck, or become a Free member. Your free trial can be cancelled at any time. Here's our link to Patreon: patreon.com/cw/21stCentury…

We've recut "STAR-BABES & STARSHIPS 21" and uploaded it to our Patreon account. All new music, new scenes, new mood. This Special Edition refines the video which we never felt met our usual expectations, until now. It'll be coming to X soon but if anyone wants to have a free 7 day trial on our Patreon page we'd be honored if you would join us. Hit the link: patreon.com/cw/21stCentury…

New-look thumbnail style for our Rumble account. The message here isn't that our series is ONLY aimed at men, it's that it's tailored for specific tastes. Here's the example we're following: STAR WARS. You might have heard of it, it came out in 1977 and, according to George Lucas & Gary Kurtz, was aimed at 8-12 year old boys. It NEVER pretended that it was aimed at everyone, it was laser-focused on pleasing a demographic that wanted to see X-Wing fighters and R2 units, which sure as hell wasn't girls. Because of this focus it kept the signal clean; viewers knew what it was, was they were going to get. This made the experience satisfying for either gender. Trying to please both demographics at the same time is why modern Star Wars doesn't work, it's like putting Rambo in "The Devil Wears Prada"; you can please some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time (Hollywood proverb). Follow our @rumblevideo account at: rumble.com/user/21stCentu…

We had 69k subs on YT with a like ratio of 97-99% per episode, we know the audience is there if you can get to it. Getting pushed on new platforms is a different matter though. Our main immediate goal is to simply exist again because when YT deleted us our online presence vanished overnight. So if we only have 5 subs on a platform we're still going to treat it equally to all the other platforms we're on. We're expecting a slow online regrowth period where we improve our product and complete production-blocks; complete a certain number of full episodes per block, or one stand-alone episode/movie per block. Let the viewers watch our progress as we go.

@21stCMStudios Treating platforms as testing ground vs endgame is the right frame. youtube teaches the format, rumble lets you test if the audience follows. whats your churn metric for deciding if a platforms worth keeping?

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@rahamanbinujit We just have to see how it goes and adapt to the nuances of each platform. Social media platforms aren't our endgame, they never were, but they're crucial for testing and creating a viewer-base (or fan base).

@21stCMStudios YouTube vs Rumble is a hard pivot. is your content type one that translates well, or are you rebuilding the format?

@ArnoldModified Many thank, very much appreciated.

@21stCMStudios Love this. Just followed you on Rumble (from my channel 5GreenTea). Ya, I know should have same name as here on X. I'm looking forward to your channel(s) growing. YouTube made a big mistake and I'm tired of them.

By deleting channels like ours, YouTube effectively tried to wipe out the chronological history of the development of AI video & film production; who did what first? Who did it best? Which were the biggest channels? If they had existed in the days where MSM fanned the flames of anti-CGI rhetoric, YouTube & it's army of bots, trolls and morons would've deleted every Star Wars Prequel, every Matrix film, every Lord of the Rings film, just to virtue-signal while silently running ads in the background. YouTube continues to delete channels to protect "real creators", but yet still gives massive recommendation numbers to vloggers whose sole purpose is to tear down, criticize and make fun of the artistic output of the millions of people who work in the entertainment industry. Some of these big youtubers' recent vlogs literally include READING POSTS FROM X OUT LOUD WHILE SHOWING THE POST ON THE SCREEN (yes Nerdrotic, that was you). Most of these vlogging channels just show clips of films and destroy any chance of the film being successful by tearing it apart before it's even released, vloggers like the "Critical P*sshead" from Scotland (you know who we mean). The idea that YouTube stands shoulder-to-shoulder with Hollywood and the people who work behind the scenes is blatantly untrue. Ask Disney: The vast majority of negative press towards their IPs over the past few years has come from a large and vocal community of YouTubers who are allowed to make their sarcastic content out of copyrighted clips, talk utter junk and literally have never made anything of interest in their lives. These are the same sort of people panned Star Wars when it was released. They said Titanic would flop. Never listen to them. They make money from negativity, and so does YouTube. Anyway, to brighten up the weekend here's our St Valentine's Day upload from 2025 which was from our mighty but now-deleted YouTube channel. It looks pretty basic now but we're making sure there's still a record that we ever existed after the failed cancellation attempt on our creative lives. We were only on YouTube before; now you can find the STAR-BABES and 21st CENTURY MOUSE on Rumble, X, Facebook, Instagram and Patreon, with more to come. Just look for the glowing blue mouse logo. This is the only way our 69K subscribers will find us again, so we can get on with making this sci-fi series and everything else we have in store. Have a great weekend everyone.

That's a big chunk of real estate wiped off the map, our hearts go out to you. The fact that they still flagged a deleted video is very worrying. We have a list of things that these AI filters flag now (forget running a channel about Olympic gymnastics; slow motion, arched backs, revealing clothing are just some of the things the moderation filters flag and we're trying to verify it but that's the most deleted or demonetized type of channel because AI-filters have been overloaded with "flag-triggers" by idiots. Now these systems can't understand context, so cosplay, sci-fi costumes, art, sport can all trigger flags. But this is how bad it's got; close ups of women's busts and heads even if they're fully-clothed, arched backs, strong shadows on skin, limbs in certain poses, the list goes on. One thumbnail can pass through a filter if it's a woman in obvious sci-fi clothing, but a homepage full of those types of thumbnails confuses the AI moderation system so it panics and flags the channel. We suspect they don't know how to fix this, it's pretty much a cascade effect now. We hope you've managed to save your channel by making a very strong decision, it's the safest way to keep your subscribers and your sanity.

@XStrangeHistory @xpertknowledge9 When?

@21stCMStudios @xpertknowledge9 What?

Wanna know what I noticed, and you probably have too? To date, nearly every YouTuber who shows up on X to complain about being demonetized or deleted on YouTube has almost zero presence here. I’ve seen them with 3 followers, 22 followers, and so on. They signed up for X just to beg YouTube for a “human review.” They foolishly poured all their energy into building channels on a platform that actively works against them, while ignoring the largest free-speech platform in the world — until they needed an audience to rally behind them. Then, the moment they get re-monetized or “re-platformed” again, they vanish without a trace, as if the people who amplified their complaints (you and I) never existed. They got what they came for and moved on. They used us. This isn’t just ungrateful — it’s bad business. X matters. It’s where real conversations happen, trends break, and influence is built in real time. Treating X as a temporary distress signal instead of a strategic platform shows poor long-term thinking. If a creator avoided X simply because they put all their eggs in one very leaky basket, they’ve forfeited a lot of the goodwill and sympathy they might otherwise have received. Diversification isn’t optional anymore — it’s table stakes.

@XStrangeHistory @xpertknowledge9 Sorry, what was the question again?

@xpertknowledge9 @21stCMStudios I will.

@PJaccetturo This comment section is becoming a goddamn war zone.

This is one of the best short films I've seen in years. Very soon, we'll stop calling it "AI film" and just call it film.

That took you hours to come up with. Your setup doesn't have a carbon footprint? Just go away, you're a rude troll who just doesn't know what they're talking about. We had 69K subs on YouTube, 250K watch hours, 5.8 million views and an average like ratio of 98-99% per episode. Those subscribers were all fools were they? And you're a top-notch gamer who's going to change the world? Just get on with your work and let us do ours in peace. We don't actually think you produce slop, we're sure your work is pretty good, but you called out our work as "slop" without knowing a thing about us or actually watching our back catalogue. Keep watching Disney+ remakes.

@21stCMStudios @flightfucker @Mygodyoustink @PJaccetturo My 'generic gamer slop' doesnt harm the environment and actually gives something entertainment back to the world. AI slop has no purpose

Idiot, try checking who you're talking to. We're actual artists with a background in traditional arts, animatronics and filmmaking. AI was trained on artwork WE put online over many years on platforms that all artists agreed in the terms conditions to having their content used for any purposes those platforms saw fit. Digital artists click a mouse on Blender or Zbrush to use presets like "chrome" or "watercolor" so they can paint over the faces of models they pinched of the web. Do you go after them too? Or people who use 3d printers, or synthesizers, or drum machines, or washing machines. We've built full sized dinosaurs, dragons, aliens and robots from scratch, painted lifelike portraits with airbrushes. Who the f8ck are you? Ethics? Do you know how many times we've been ripped off by so-called "artists" in the MSM? No. Shut up with your insults, we're trying to work here. Dirty little troll.

@21stCMStudios @chrisvected @flightfucker @Mygodyoustink @PJaccetturo What's the point of devoting years of our lives learning art and music when fucktards like you can just sit on your ass typing words that pumps out shitty videos that actively STEALS from ACTUAL artist's work? You haven't even put thought into the ethics of your "job", have you?

@chrisvected @flightfucker @Mygodyoustink @PJaccetturo So...generic gamer slop? How does it feel to have YOUR output put down?

@21stCMStudios @flightfucker @Mygodyoustink @PJaccetturo i cant be on twitter and reply to someone in my free time? What kind of bullshit is that? I make thousands developing video games.

@chrisvected @flightfucker @Mygodyoustink @PJaccetturo Oh please spare us your bandwagon-riding horsesh*t. Let's find out what you do for a living and see what kind of "slop" you're contributing to the world. How come you're online right now? Plenty of spare time today?

@21stCMStudios @flightfucker @Mygodyoustink @PJaccetturo sure you might be 'directing' the ai but its still slop

You are so far off the mark it's incredible. Yes, there are creators that use AI in that way, but there are also people like us who put in 16 hour days writing, editing, designing costumes, creating moodboards (all typical filmmaker stuff) then we test, and test, and test. You're literally claiming to know more than the people who've now spent over 4 years using these tech-stacks and have decades of experience in traditional filmmaking, art & animatronics. “AI does all the work.” Sure. Meanwhile we're over here juggling --cref, --cw, --sref, --sw, --seed, --style raw, --no text, --chaos, and --ar 16:9 just to keep a character’s face consistent and the shot usable. And that’s before lighting, composition, and post‑processing. If this is “automatic,” I’d love to see your version. That's just to get a single still image. Learn about stuff before you spout garbage about it. Maybe you like people who just click presets on Blender, juggle nodes all day or click "watercolour style" on Zbrush? Maybe you're not okay with drum machines, synthesizers, 3D printing, cars, washing machines or any other progressive tech. We're artists; we choose what tools we use. Who exactly are you?

@21stCMStudios @Mygodyoustink @PJaccetturo That’s where you’re wrong. generative AI quite literally does make videos by itself, that’s essentially the entire point. There is no creativity and there is no hard work. “Input” is not direction, thats a vastly different thing.

No director? AI doesn't make videos by itself, it uses human "direction" or input. Do you have the same problem with drum-machines, synthesizers, 3D printers, GC packages where "artists" who can't draw a circle with a pencil can click "add chrome" or choose "watercolor" presets then paint it over an image of a model they stole off the internet? Does a car drive you to work, or do you drive the car? Because the car is built by someone else, it does the work instead of your legs, so it must be the thing in charge. Getting really tired of the anti-AI stupidity now, it's been going on for years and it exactly matches the horse manure people said when The Phantom Menace came out: "it's all CGI" they cried...no, it wasn't; it had more practical models, sets and actors than all three of the previous Star Wars films combined; it wasn't well received... yes, it was; it made $1.2 billion at the box office which required people to have seen the film more than once to achieve at 1999 ticket prices, it re-invigorated the fanbase and brought in millions of new young fans and led to huge franchise expansion. The media said "we don't like it" and trolls jumped on the bandwagon, creating a false narrative just like they are now with AI filmmaking. The fact that people like you actually believe AI is "artificial intelligence" and it's sitting there spontaneously making film clips is absurd; it's just another type of computer system rebranded as "AI" for the modern world. Human's operate it, and yes, they direct it too. Please slap yourself with a wet fish.

@PJaccetturo There is no director it’s AI.

We feel your pain and can hear your blood boiling. In the past 6 months around 80,000 channels have been deleted completely for this type of allegation. Trying to edit or blur your videos in the YouTube editor can trigger the bots to give multiple erroneous reassessments all at once and each edit becomes "multiple violations" leading to instant permanent channel deletion (catch-22). We're all getting mentally scarred for life because of this purge. The only thing that didn't cause a flag on our channel just before the end was actually choosing your own video-deletion because you don't press "save" after doing it, so it doesn't cause an automatic review. It is hard to delete a video with over 400k views for example, but if it saves your channel then consider deleting anything your gut tells you could get flagged by bots. This is just our grim experience but we love your work and we hate to see this happening to our fellow hardworking content creators (otherwise known as filmmakers, journalists, musicians, artists etc but for some reason we all just get called "content creators". I guess Martin Scorsese is a content creator?) One last thing: channels that get deleted for their skimpy outfits or for being just too damn hot for the safety of the YT community statistically never get put back up. We went from 69.9K at our peak to not being able to hit the like button or leave a comment, forever. Sorry for the size of this compendium the coffee here is strong. Don't delete any videos just based on our experience but that's what we found.