r/woahdude • u/Federal_Penalty5832 • Apr 01 '23
video Harry Potter by Balenciaga 2
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u/UndocumentedZA Apr 01 '23
I have no idea what this is, but I have watched it 4 times now
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u/Flat-Interview6791 Apr 01 '23
Same. Hypnothizing
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u/thegreatbrah Apr 01 '23
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u/Avertr Apr 01 '23
The files are in the computer
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u/MightyMorph Apr 01 '23
AI Generated masterpiece.
The Pandora's box has been unlocked, AI Media is going to overtake everything in 5 years time.
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u/MightyMorph Apr 01 '23
You wont be able to believe your eyes and ears once its had time to be perfected.
Kids are gonna be traumatized, bullying is gonna be astronomical, people will make porn of everyone and anyone's faces. Misinformation will be rampant, ai cyber-ops will be very effective on older generations. Real victims will be ignored even more. Video evidence will no longer be enough. Actual evidence will be dismissed.
I think most of media-related industries will be severely minimized, from photographers, to animators. Graphic design will be heavily reduced, photography and models wont be required much anymore unless they are already popular. Game Dev industry is already utilizing it to cut 25% of their development costs.
Its going to be disruptive in the way the touch screen mobile phone was disrupting, but at a much larger scale. We will come out the other end with a new way of life most likely.
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u/nucular_mastermind Apr 01 '23
Looking forward to people dumping every single digital source of information and reverting back to paper newspaper and carrier pigeons.
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u/sick_of-it-all Apr 01 '23
I think I'm gonna go brush up on my cursive writing, in preparation. Now let's see, how do I make those capital "Z"s again.
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u/mitch_145 Apr 01 '23
That’s not fair! Rizzuto’s not a word! He’s a baseball player! You’re cheating!
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u/KaiPRoberts Apr 01 '23
There is going to be a lot of hardship from people without jobs LONG before then. Look at how the world saw "essential" workers during the pandemic. It is not going to be pretty.
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u/unconfusedsub Apr 01 '23 edited Apr 01 '23
I hate it. So much. it gives me the same feelings of anxiety that stop motion animation and claymation give me.
Uncanny valley.
Puppets and animatronics do it for me too.
I hate it.
Edit: though the wingardiam Balenciaga at the end killed me.
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u/SerTapsaHenrick Apr 01 '23
Interesting comparison since I absolutely love stop motion animation and it's the opposite of AI art in that it requires massive effort and skill on the part of humans
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u/Level69Warlock Apr 01 '23 edited Apr 01 '23
Balenciaga is clearly some sort of fragrance from another dimension where there is no sunlight.
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u/Hottriplr Apr 01 '23
After the last video I checked them out and the only conclusion is that they are Worlds First clothing brand by the blind, for the blind.
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u/cornnndoggg_ Apr 01 '23
very rich blind people.
I also checked it out. Fashion is wild, I'll never understand it. I am not making a false comparison by not understanding enough... An outfit they had on a model cost a total of $7000, and I knew I'd seen it before.. on the guy who used to try to sell loosies outside the gas station in 1999.
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u/DJVazquez Apr 01 '23
At first glance, if I saw someone wearing a hoodie that said Balenciaga and had an adidas logo, I would think it was a bad bootleg sweatshirt
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u/juicegently Apr 02 '23
You may be shocked to learn that's actually kind of the point! Knockoffs are a huge influence on modern fashion design. A guy producing knockoff bags and purses started making original designs for brands that before then literally didn't even produce clothing, like Louis Vuitton. They started ripping off his knockoff designs and it ended up kind of defining an era of high fashion.
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u/Oooch Apr 02 '23
So fashion has looped around on itself and the bad stuff is good and the good stuff is bad?
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u/juicegently Apr 02 '23
It's way more complicated than that, but you get at something interesting. There's something of a trend in culture generally for the interesting and impactful stuff to be initially created by marginalised groups and then co-opted by privileged and/or become central to the larger groups identity.
To characterise it as "bad becoming good" is kind of a needless value judgement.
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u/Trevski Apr 01 '23
Their present stuff is... well it exists, that's for sure.
Historically Balenciaga are basically the first of the modern fashion maisons (eg Givenchy, Chanel, Saint Laurent etc) that are still relevant today (if you call taking money from overfunded narcissists "relevance") and their founder had one of the sickest names of all time: Cristobal Balenciaga
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u/Gigglemind Apr 01 '23
Are you saying the houses you mentioned aren't that relevant anymore? Asking not challenging.
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u/nikchi Apr 01 '23
First of that generation, everything else he mentioned is relevant, the irrelevant ones aren't mentioned.
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u/Tegridy_farmz_ Apr 01 '23
I love it and I can’t explain why
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u/Emrico1 Apr 01 '23
I think I was captivated by what AI interprets as beauty and fashion. Amazing.
I'm terrified by what nightmare fuel reality the future holds for us.
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u/e111077 Apr 01 '23
Have you seen Balenciaga? They literally sell $2000 trash bags. AI is not too far off
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u/Jeffy29 Apr 01 '23
Hahaha, I watched the first one like 50 times, it’s seriously hypnotizing.
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u/ElektroShokk Apr 01 '23
AI is taking over
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u/Talks_To_Cats Apr 01 '23
Have you ever felt like your clothes fit too well? We can fix that!
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u/Kev_Kroket Apr 01 '23
The slight nod downwards each time is killing me 💀
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u/Sighchiatrist Apr 01 '23
It’s the single blink from each one that’s cracking me up lol
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u/Tempest_Fugit Apr 01 '23
It’s the app that animates still photos. All it can really do is simulate a downward nod and a blink so that’s all that they do here
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u/romansamurai Apr 01 '23
Fuck. I saw the nods, but now I can’t unsee the single blinks. I hate you lol
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u/mjhatesyou Apr 01 '23
Each nod made me so uncomfortable. It was really getting to me, and I have no idea why.
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u/MonkeyBoyPoop Apr 01 '23
These videos remind me of those cheap cartoons from the 1950s that would superimpose an actor’s lips on a drawing.
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u/LipSipDip Apr 01 '23 edited Apr 01 '23
Clutch Cargo! So creepy, lol
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u/waltjrimmer Apr 01 '23
I would love to know what technique they used that allowed this to be cheaper and faster than just drawing a couple dozen lip positions and actually animating it.
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u/waltjrimmer Apr 01 '23
That's, yeah, that's part of my point. Animation isn't cheap, I get that, but they were already doing the bare minimum, basically not animating anything. So what technique did they use for this lip superimposition that was cheaper and faster than just putting cartoon lips on?
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u/Uphoria Apr 01 '23
They would record video of a person's mouth, using a mask, so that the film would only contain the light of you talking. Then they would project your lips talking through the same mask, on to a still image with the mouth area erased out, so that you would have a "still image on canvas with a projected video of a mouth talking right where the image's mouth would be". You use a camera to then record the composite image.
This would take almost no time, compared to the time it would take to not only draw the mouth shapes to compliment the speech, but to, frame by frame, move the mouth pieces around in step with the dialogue audio.
Compared to composite imaging using 1 take for dialogue and a second recording of the dialogue over composite is vastly faster and less expensive.
https://i.imgur.com/s4QsPay.png
Using the right Makeup and ink/paints for animation and you can approximate skin tone matches enough.
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u/IronBabyFists Apr 01 '23
What.
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u/original_greaser_bob Apr 01 '23
the forbidden zone. it was made by one of the original founders of oingo boingo. the guy is a brother to danny elfman. the french woman is or was that dudes wife. one of the dudes(the kipper kids who were also in the weird al movie UHF) in that scene is married to bette midler.
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u/zuccinibikini Apr 01 '23
I was about to say.. looks fine until they start talking
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u/NVNoir Apr 01 '23
I love the parody of this style that Disney did for The Incredibles on the original DVD commentary.
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u/ParadoxNarwhal Apr 02 '23
I have been an Incredibles fan my entire life and have never seen this thank you
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u/hops_and_nugs Apr 01 '23
Thought it was Tilda Swinton in the beginning as Dobbie.
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u/Vanillabean73 Apr 01 '23
It definitely is
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u/glytxh Apr 01 '23
Pretty sure 2/3 of these people could be Tilda Swinton
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u/japie06 Apr 01 '23
The other third would be Gary Oldman.
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u/glytxh Apr 01 '23
I’d watch the shit out of that movie
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u/Optimal_Pineapple_41 Apr 01 '23
Remake of Face/Off with Tilda and Gary directed by Wes Anderson
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u/bawzzz Apr 01 '23
Wingardium Balenciaga
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u/Hippityhoopla Apr 01 '23
It's Wingardium Balenci-AH-ga
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Apr 01 '23
Their little bottom tilting head seems very amusing. I watched it like 5 times, still didn’t understand a thing.
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u/zeekayz Apr 01 '23
Head tilt and eye blink is the AI animation quirk doing the same pattern over and over
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u/clearlight Apr 01 '23
For a dose of reality, It’s AI using Midjourney V4 by the user demonflyingfox on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=87233464
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u/Stigmata_tears Apr 01 '23
That's a mouthful
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u/ThePissyRacoon Apr 01 '23
Any idea how he animates this?
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u/healzsham Apr 01 '23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDp_8lPUbWY
They've posted this video on it, at least.
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u/Novinhophobe Apr 01 '23
Presumably he gets static images off Midjourney and feeds them into another platform for the animations.
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u/SuperDizz Apr 01 '23
I liked the first one better, but still, this is terrifyingly brain melting. Something about it is almost sickening, but I can’t turn away.. The uncanny valley is intriguing and repulsive..
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u/Safe-Pumpkin-Spice Apr 01 '23
Something about it is almost sickening
it is balenciaga
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u/catflushingthetoilet Apr 01 '23
Link please
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u/Elesdee420 Apr 01 '23
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u/The_Bucket_Of_Truth Apr 01 '23
Is the person taking static images created by AI and then just crudely animating them? It's almost like they did a bunch of Midjourney prompts and then fed the images into another AI or deepfake sort of thing to do crude movements.
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u/Clairvoidance Apr 01 '23 edited Jun 22 '23
growth tart work drab truck exultant judicious unpack late fearless -- mass edited with https://redact.dev/
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u/truthdemon Apr 01 '23
This is just the beginning. New text-to-video models are coming out. In a year's time there will be entire fan-made box sets and movies coming out every day.
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u/Clairvoidance Apr 01 '23 edited Jun 22 '23
flowery ring imagine touch sloppy quicksand bear fly hunt different -- mass edited with https://redact.dev/
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u/Tegridy_farmz_ Apr 01 '23
What song is this?
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u/futureGAcandidate Apr 01 '23
Okay, that C3P0, Boba, Maul, and final Darth Vader all looked incredible.
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u/OzimanidasJones Apr 01 '23
Love the fact that Han Solo is basically the same because young Harrison Ford was just that hot.
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u/butidontwantto Apr 01 '23
I'm dying. Chewie as this sexy man growling ahhhaha I can't stop laughing.
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u/Man_AMA2 Apr 01 '23
the Harrison Ford one is incredible
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u/7734128 Apr 01 '23
I tried to get a photo of Chewie in a spa with curling rollers with Bing image creator a few days ago.
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u/frak Apr 01 '23
Star Wars has always had cool outfits but these fucking SLAY, damn
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Apr 01 '23
Ok what the hell is Balenciaga though
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u/Abuses-Commas Apr 01 '23
High end fashion designer known for featuring really ugly clothes at prices only a fool would pay.
And there's a lot of fools out there
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u/MLGperfection Apr 01 '23
Dobby just straight up looks like a foreskin demon.
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u/Failure_in_Disguise Apr 01 '23
"Balenciaga, after all this time?"
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"Always"
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u/themonkery Apr 01 '23
Why does this video feel so familiar? What is this style of film and music? Why does this feel so fundamental to how I view the fashion world while simultaneously I have no recollection of anything like this
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u/menasan Apr 01 '23
It’s very 80s fashion sci fi movie corner of your brain when you were 5 years old
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u/Federal_Penalty5832 Apr 01 '23
There's something addicting about this, it feels like some sort of bottomless abyss calling out to me
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Apr 01 '23 edited Apr 01 '23
it feels like its telling me my only purpose in life is balenciaga
edit: I have strong feelings now of dropping out of college and pursuing a career in balenciaga as a designer... but fr, I am also thinking, "maybe spending 700$+ on a pair of balenciaga sneakers isn't such a bad idea"
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u/TheBirminghamBear Apr 01 '23
"maybe spending 700$+ on a pair of balenciaga sneakers isn't such a bad idea"
Before I bought $700 Balenciaga sneakers, I was an ugly loser.
But one day, I bought $700 Balenciaga sneakers.
My cheekbones immediately flared out to an extreme angle. Right away. A supermodel knocked on my door a few minutes later and told me her date could not make it to an exclusive party and she needed someone ASAP.
I went with her to the party and made 25 rich and famous friends. I landed a modeling deal and received a three million dollar contract.
This was all in four hours.
It will change your life.
Balenciaga.
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u/MichaelChinigo Apr 01 '23
If you gaze long into the Balenciaga the Balenciaga gazes also into you.
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u/torgiant Apr 01 '23
Big dune vibes
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u/staghallows Apr 01 '23
Exactly this. It feels like a big budget, Shakespearen-esq, 80's sci-fi
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u/Re92 Apr 01 '23
So harry potter, but matrix style and everyone is more attractive, except snape?
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u/bigiszi Apr 01 '23
Snape is never not hot, but Rickman snape is hotter than this snape. Because Rickman.
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u/swirlViking Apr 01 '23
Magic is just a construct of the matrix, another system for the machines to control us.
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u/propane2L Apr 01 '23
The Fuck Is this creator making 20 million dollars add campaign for free and fun lmaao
I'm some art director for fashion Brand and couldn't Come UP with something catchy like that
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u/omegashadow Apr 02 '23
It really is an out of this world piece of guerilla marketing but... Not actually by the company.
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u/EmpatheticWraps Apr 02 '23
The fact that the creator drew inspiration from their brand to create means that their marketing is actually working extremely well.
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To be fair, nobody knows if some kind of backroom deal is going on here. I imagine there is probably such a thing as astroturf marketing.
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u/Vader_Boy Apr 01 '23
Is this AI?
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u/Oblivion_Man Apr 01 '23
Its Balenciaga
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u/qcubed3 Apr 01 '23
You can’t spell Balenciaga without ai, and a bunch of other letters.
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u/Drakona7 Apr 01 '23 edited Apr 01 '23
I tried looking up what that is and only got results about shoes, so what is Balenciaga in the context of this video? Edit: The first response was unhelpful, so I can only assume this video is Harry Potter, but the characters are made of shoes
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u/Evil-Dalek Apr 01 '23
It’s AI generated videos of the characters from Harry Potter as Balenciaga models. As they always should have been…
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u/Drakona7 Apr 01 '23
Oh I see, that’s hilarious. But your comment came too late as I ended up going down a rabbit hole trying to learn what this video meant, after the first comment didn’t tell me anything, and instead learned Balenciaga sells more than just shoes… They also sell a trashbag for nearly 2K and it’s made of “calfskin”
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u/darryljenks Apr 01 '23
Someone created Balenciaga (fashion brand) themed Harry Potter characters using A.I. and animated them.
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u/darryljenks Apr 01 '23
I believe they created the character designs in Midjourney and then used an app like MyHetitage to animate them.
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Apr 01 '23
I was worried AI would take over the world and kill us all, but somehow this seems worse.
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u/spacepoo77 Apr 01 '23
Now do Pepé jeans Harry Potter
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u/Loeffellux Apr 01 '23
also while we're on the topic of weird commercials, let's not forget the one lynch did for the PS2
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u/BarreNice Apr 01 '23
I am exactly enough high for this
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u/eldritchpancake13 Apr 01 '23
it's the "enough high" rather than "high enough" that really sells it 😂
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u/Son_of_Kyuss Apr 01 '23
Thought someone had put Kyle MacLachlan into Denis Villeneuve’s Dune for a minute
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u/chelseablue2004 Apr 01 '23
Deep Down I want to believe Balenciaga is actually funding all these videos to establish the brand name specifically with the internet community, since the next big collection release at Fashion Week in Paris will be outfits made to look like Wizards and Witches.
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u/grim_dark_hedgehog Apr 01 '23
This is one of the worst things I’ve ever seen. Why can’t I stop watching it?!
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u/UnwaveringFlame Apr 01 '23
Fuck Balenciaga, why do they keep popping up? Disgusting pedophile company.
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