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If you’ve managed to avoid this corner of the internet let us introduce you to the bizarre world of AI-generated “fruit dramas”. Millions are watching cartoon strawberries, bananas and avocados fall in and out of love online.

But beneath the absurdity, critics say these viral videos are recycling old sexist tropes for a new algorithmic age and are an extension of the manosphere.

Our culture correspondent Minnie Stephenson reports.

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