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Lefty Memes

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

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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 24 points 17 hours 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.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours 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.

[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] josefo@leminal.space 21 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] nao@sh.itjust.works 17 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] Geobloke@lemm.ee 24 points 21 hours ago

This is testing my Kinsey scale

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago

This is the best AI anything ever.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 day ago

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

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago

Impressed how emotive this is.

[–] TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago
[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 59 points 1 day ago

Dang that's good on many levels.

[–] sepi@piefed.social 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That damn smile

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 20 points 22 hours ago

Why not both?

[–] Zoop@beehaw.org 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

I found the original still on @gedogfx's Instagram, here's a direct link to the post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DDr5FrfMl5n/

It looks like they are indeed the original artist :)

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 18 hours ago

Awesome thank you for confirming that for me! I hope they like what I've done lol

[–] piracysails@lemm.ee 7 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 21 hours 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.

[–] piracysails@lemm.ee 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)
[–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Doom@ttrpg.network 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] riplin@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)

Because United Health Care is using AI to deny claims.

[–] capital@lemmy.world 11 points 14 hours ago

Probably use computers too.

[–] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m curious if Luigi would approve.

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 3 points 21 hours ago

Luigi's ways are inscrutable.

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[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 day ago

Be still my heart.

[–] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago

Thanks, I hate it.

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 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

[–] Zoop@beehaw.org 2 points 19 hours ago

It works for me in Connect on Android :)

[–] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

Works on Voyager too.

[–] Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Works on boost

[–] Zoldyck@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

The GIF also works on Sync.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago (2 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

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[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What model or tool was used to make this?

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Be warned, you need a beefy GPU, AFAIK.

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Dang, all I own is an old 3080

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

It’d be fine if Nvidia didn’t skimp on the VRAM :(

It’s possible SDV or some image-to-vid models would run in 10GB, honestly I haven’t kept up with this space.

[–] xangadix@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 7 points 1 day ago

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

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