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Lefty Memes

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Saint Luigi (i.imgur.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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Original still created by @gedogfx (IG). Title source: "Inkl"

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 weeks ago

Dang that's good on many levels.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 weeks ago

Impressed how emotive this is.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago

Why not both?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago

This is the best AI anything ever.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Remember remember!

The 4th of December

A CEO dies all alone;

On the street he was lain,

cold, pale and in pain,

thousands of deaths that he own.

The decisions he'd struck,

Layers removed from the slaughter,

Were a shareholder's treat,

Your dead mother or daughter.

Those investors all wait, on that cold winter morn,

Still unawares of profit potential they'd mourn,

Poking at hotel breakfast, bored looks on their face

As was Brian's when he denied and delayed at great pace

Endless growth, deposed, on behalf of us all

Luigi didn't do it, we were hiking in Nepal.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is wonderful and can confirm, Luigi told me he was going on a trip to Nepal and didn’t know what to wear.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I have a little outfit Id like to see him in.

[–] Grandwolf319 32 points 3 weeks ago

Now this is a use case of AI I can appreciate!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago

This is testing my Kinsey scale

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago

I got some Harry Potter newspaper vibes from this, I being animated was totally unexpected.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago

Be still my heart.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That damn smile

[–] nao 20 points 3 weeks ago

That scared me a bit, last time I saw this picture it wasn't animated I think.

[–] iAmTheTot 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Very ironic in my opinion to use AI to celebrate this guy.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (12 children)

Because United Health Care is using AI to deny claims.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yea the cops identified him using pictures too.

Oh and the media is condemning him with words.

Wow this train of thought really goes places.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

Probably use computers too.

[–] Grandwolf319 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m curious if Luigi would approve.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Luigi's ways are inscrutable.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

How do people post imgur links in a way that seems to embed the video?

Edit: nvm I think I got it! Lmk if it works on your client though, please! Working on Eternity

[–] kopasz7 12 points 3 weeks ago

Works on Voyager too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Works on boost

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Many Imgur embeds don't work for me using Mbin. I usually can go to the actual title and click to go to Imgur and see it though. Here it had a "api.imgur.com=" added to the front that broke it, but I was able to pull out the actual URL and see it.

Luigi

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I wonder if you're seeing the old version of this post before I updated it, as I originally posted an api link but changed it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe. Hasn't changed for me yet, even in a private browser. Perhaps changes like that are slower to federate.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

The GIF also works on Sync.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks, I hate it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If the way you're accessing Lemmy doesn't give you the option, you can follow the source link and download it directly.

https://i.imgur.com/XzgU9AS.mp4

On mobile, tap the video, then click the three dots that appear in the top right corner of the video, and then the option to download will appear.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[–] Classy 3 points 3 weeks ago

I really, really like this image. Can I have it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What model or tool was used to make this?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Ah I'm dumb as fuck lol it's right there! Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ew, AI. All my homies Deny, Defend, Depose AI.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No homie is going to create this without AI, too much effort.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You can use Hunyuan Video video to make stuff like this locally now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Be warned, you need a beefy GPU, AFAIK.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Somebody needs to reshop the original with that massive grin he does and then feed it back through this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Truly the last American hero.

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