The damage here is not that individual videos are wrong — it is that the format enforces a particular kind of wrongness. A clip warning that AI voice clones sound indistinguishable from real people [5] and a clip predicting five careers eliminated before 2030 [1] are not making the same argument, but they are making it in the same register of emotional urgency and the same visual grammar of alarm. Audiences are not failing to reason; they are being given a format that makes reasoning structurally inaccessible. The [longer analysis…