About

PDF to Brainrot AI refers to various online AI video generators like pdftobrainrot.com, Coconote AI, Memenome AI and shortspilot.ai that combine an AI voiceover of a user-submitted PDF, of something like a viral Reddit story, with a background visual, like Subway Surfers gameplay or a Minecraft parkour video, to create a so-called Brainrot video, also known as Sludge Content, to post on TikTok, Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts. Some of the applications also do "Brainrot Translations" which replace words in the PDF to Brainrot slang like Skibidi, Rizz or Gyatt, among others. The PDF to Brainrot AI-generated videos were used to farm engagement with little to no creative effort or editing output. Discourse about PDF to Brainrot services surfaced en masse on TikTok and Twitter / X in 2024 and mainly centered on: how the AI service made the already notoriously lazy video style even lazier; the Dead Internet Theory; and reactions to claims that using the service could yield significant revenue after posting the PDF to Brainrot AI videos to social media. For instance, many people likened the service to a "method" or "hack" to earn quick cash. Many of these claims came from young Gen Z and Gen Alpha which added to the shock and disassociation experienced by older internet users upon learning about the services.

History

Applications

Memenome AI

On April 27th, 2024, the TikTok^[1] account @memenomeai, a page for Memenome AI hosted on the website memenome.gg,^[2] shared a video of its service called the "Brainrot Translator," which was shown replacing words in the Bee Movie Script with so-called Brainrot slang and generating a downloadable AI voiceover. The video amassed over 834,700 plays and 111,900 likes in seven months (shown below).

Memenome AI would later add a service called PDF to Brainrot in October 2024. It debuted in a video posted to TikTok^[4] on October 27th, gaining over 3.8 million plays and 487,100 likes in 19 days (shown below).

ShortsPilot.AI

Before October 27th, 2024, a different website called ShortsPilot.AI^[5] created a PDF to Brainrot service first. The company's earliest Instagram^[3] Reel was shared on May 14th, 2024, however, it received only three likes in six months.

On August 18th, X^[7] user @rodrigoehlers tweeted a screenshot from Discord in which his friends were talking about allegedly making about $1,000 per YouTube Short (shown below). An X^[8] user named @rodrigoehlers replied to the post on August 19th, linking to ShortsPilot.AI, revealing that the service was active during that time.

On October 26th, 2024, shortspilot.ai shared an Instagram^[6] Reel that outlined its service and dubbed its AI-generated content "Faceless Video Content." In the video, the company claimed to have over 20,000 users. The video did not receive viral engagement (shown below).

Coconote AI / pdftobrainrot.com

On October 27th, 2024, Coconote AI, an AI service centered on recording lectures to generate class notes, launched a website called pdftobrainrot.com.^[9][10] As of November 15th, the URL redirects to www.coconote.app/brainrot.

Viral Discourse

One of the first viral videos of a user's experience with a PDF to Brainrot service was shared by Instagram^[11] user @ryann_wealth on October 26th, 2024. The video was a Day In the Life of a "14-year-old making $10K a month from his phone." He showed himself making videos using ShortsPilot.AI and posting them to social media. The video received over 207,800 likes in 20 days (shown below).

On October 27th, X^[12] user @Jack_Frodo reposted Memenome AI's then-recent TikTok^[4] video, humorously captioning it, "Oh my god. The perfect use for AI. I'm gonna learn so much stuff." The post gained over 4.2 million views and 96,000 likes in 19 days (shown below).

In a reply^[13] to his tweet, @Jack_Frodo joked, "I’m putting the NASA budget reports in this," receiving roughly 1,900 likes over the same timeframe.

oh my god. the perfect use for AI. i’m gonna learn so much stuff. pic.twitter.com/pYdqKuPcdl

— Jack J (@Jack_Frodo) October 27, 2024

On October 29th, 2024, YouTuber^[14] KeidBoi posted a video, reacting to and discussing the PDF to Brainrot AI services, receiving over 19,100 views in 17 days (shown below).

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