Teens Create AI-Driven ‘Slander Pages’ to Ridicule Their Teachers

The video begins with a school superintendent lip-syncing to a love song, but he’s not performing solo.

AI-generated renditions of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein join him on the track—a blend of Will Joseph Cook’s “Be Around Me” and a TikTok rewrite by Beth McCarthy—with Epstein miming the lyrics, “Oh my god, did he call her baby, maybe?”

Shared on the Instagram account @thewyliefiles, the clip has garnered over 107,000 likes. Its caption resembles a large language model’s overview of the Wylie Independent School District in Collin County, Texas, where the singing superintendent was previously employed, touting its “strong academics” and “variety of extracurricular activities.” A popular comment reads, “Gem alarm!” indicating that viewers feel they’ve discovered something valuable in their scrolling.

This skit exemplifies a new trend of AI video memes on Instagram and TikTok, created by students to poke fun at school faculty and sometimes undermine their reputations, seemingly for the sake of going viral. These student-operated accounts have earned the label “slander pages” online. They represent a digital evolution of the traditional high school prank, but with potentially more serious implications.

“Slander page” posts incorporate slang from less desirable corners of the internet. Terminology related to “looksmaxxing,” which comes from forums that instruct men on enhancing their attractiveness, is commonplace in these memes. This includes terms like “mog,” meaning to outperform another man in terms of physical appearance, and “sub5,” used to refer to individuals deemed extremely unattractive.

Certain “slander” videos utilize the AI image-to-video tool Viggle AI, which allows creators to place any photographed individual into reference videos and animate still images into lip-sync formats. Viggle AI was recently described as “a new frontier in creating spontaneous extremist propaganda” by the Global Network on Extremism and Technology, an academic research group affiliated with King’s College London. The platform has over 40 million users as of February. Viggle AI has not responded to inquiries for comment.

In one recently removed “slander” video employing Viggle AI, a teacher’s face was superimposed onto footage of a person seizing in a bathroom. The text overlay declared, “Take fent or be useless,” implying that the seizure was due to fentanyl use.

The creators behind these pages also incorporate altered extremist symbols. In one instance, certain teachers are depicted as being allowed into the fictional world of Agartha, a significant setting in neo-Nazi occultism characterized by a homogeneous population. Faculty members in the edit are shown with glowing white eyes to indicate acceptance into Agartha, or red eyes to signify rejection.

At Crandall High School in Crandall, Texas, the situation has escalated further. Memes from a viral TikTok account known as @crandall.kirkinator have spread beyond the local user base, inspiring TikTokers with hundreds of thousands of followers—and no obvious associations with the school—to amplify “slander” aimed at Crandall teachers. Popular video skits have even portrayed scenarios where administrators confront students creating these posts.

Administrators at Crandall High School chose not to comment on the matter, but at the end of January, all content from the @crandall.kirkinator TikTok account was erased and replaced with a statement acknowledging that the corresponding Instagram account had been deleted. “My Instagram account was not banned, it was deleted by me voluntarily … Some teachers were being harassed, spam-called, or emailed by random individuals, which was never my intention … The account was created as a joke and was never meant to escalate to this extent,” the statement read. Just days after this announcement, the account resumed posting on TikTok. Last week, it was deleted altogether.