memes

Inside TikTok’s Unhinged Home Remodeling Videos
30 Sep

Inside TikTok’s Unhinged Home Remodeling Videos

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Along the way, the aesthetic and style of these videos started to change. The early viral renovation videos from Designer Bob were silly but could sometimes be mistaken for genuine design content. Newer videos were more ludicrous, the renovations more fantastical, their action narrated by a droning AI voice. That’s just the way TikTok’s remix culture works, says Alex Turvy, who studies digital culture.“We’re going to see trends like this become more and more absurd until they burn out,” he says.There’s even a spin-off meme specifically about “galvanized square steel,” to the point where some users have questioned whether the…
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Reddit’s ‘Celebrity Number Six’ Win Was Almost a Catastrophe—Thanks to AI
13 Sep

Reddit’s ‘Celebrity Number Six’ Win Was Almost a Catastrophe—Thanks to AI

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Take, for example, the other recently solved internet mystery: The source of the song that became known as “Everyone Knows That.” After nearly three years of online investigative work, a pair of Redditors found the song—titled “Ulterior Motives”—after hearing a similar song in an adult movie clip on YouTube and watching literal hours of porn that had possibly been scored by the songwriters credited on that clip.During the hunt there had been speculation that the song was AI-generated or part of some stunt. If the detectives had gotten too distracted by that, or if someone had tried to use AI…
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People Are Using Memecoins to Bet on the US Election
29 Jul

People Are Using Memecoins to Bet on the US Election

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On July 13, as word spread that a would-be assassin had narrowly missed killing Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, a trading frenzy began. Within an hour of the shooting, the price of TRUMP, a cryptocurrency inspired by the former president, had jumped up by more than a third, from $6.34 to $8.69. The memecoin was, in effect, a bellwether for the upcoming US election.Tens of political memecoins have been created within the past year; there also are coins modeled after high-profile politicians such as Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. They share…
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AI Is Rewriting Meme History
03 Jul

AI Is Rewriting Meme History

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Pretty much every online lurker knows the image: A man gawks at a passing woman making the kind of “How you doin’?” face that would make Joey Tribbiani blush. Ever since it landed in 2017, the “distracted boyfriend” meme, which took that stock photo and projected scenarios onto it, has been seared into the internet’s collective consciousness. Now, artificial intelligence is rendering the memory of that viral moment fuzzy, along with the memories of dozens of other memes.Often called “time traveler” videos, particularly on TikTok, the AI-generated clips currently bouncing around the internet take well-known memes and add context that…
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Roaring Kitty Is Playing With Fire
07 Jun

Roaring Kitty Is Playing With Fire

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Gill did not face charges then, but this time could be different. The securities regulator for the state of Massachusetts has confirmed it is looking into Gill’s recent conduct, without providing specifics. It would appear that Gill is aware of the risk of provoking an SEC investigation. On May 16 he posted a clip of a CNBC interview in which Jay Clayton, former SEC chair, expressed the view that his conduct should not be tolerated. The SEC declined to comment on the existence of an investigation.At the start of Gill’s YouTube livestream, a long disclaimer scrolled up the screen like…
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