Have you ever wondered what your favorite memes might look like if they were animated?
Well, wonder no longer.
And they look like absolute dogshit.
Gif: Twitter
But it was thePicard Facepalmmeme that really caught our eye.
The image comes from the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation, season three, episode 13.
But something is very, very wrong.
Screenshot: Twitter
As Brown tweeted, Who is this imposter??!
And imposter is right.
Its all a mess.
Gif: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Other memes in the thread come from still photos that werent captured from a source video.
But we know exactly what Picard actually looks like when his face is revealed.
We saw this reasoning frequently back in late 2022 when AI image generators were first taking off.
As theNew York Postput it, AI now lets you expose unseen secrets of legendary artwork.
But thats obviously nonsense.
Were just seeing a computer-driven animated shitpost.
AI video is fun for dicking around on the internet, especially when it produces something horrifyingly wrong.
RememberWill Smith eating spaghettilast year?
But where does that leave us when the novelty wears off and these tools look much more realistic?
It remains to be seen whether anyone really wants media that only represents their most specific desires.
Maybe hyper-customized movies and TV shows will be a profitable path for media executives.
Stranger things have certainly happened before.
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