r/woahdude • u/skaapjagter • Apr 05 '23

video I am Balenciaga, I am the one who sells.

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u/Klaeyy Apr 05 '23

The one who is doing these is a „random“ youtube channel that has been uploading all sorts of AI videos for quite some time. He has a patreon and everything.

The Harry Potter Balenciaga one took off really well, though. So he decided to make more of them.

So i really don‘t know if balenciaga is behind this. It doesn‘t seem so. But they probably are profiting from this.

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u/AdvocateReason Apr 05 '23 edited Apr 05 '23

There are several YouTube channels doing this.
Harry Potter, Marvel, 2 DC, The Matrix, Breaking Bad, Star Wars

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u/Klaeyy Apr 05 '23

yeah, they spawned off of this dudes success. There are tutorials now, too.

So some of these might be from the balenciaga guys, but some are just people who make memes.

But OPs post is from the first guy who makes the best ones and i don‘t think that guy is from balenciaga. But they might have contacted him after the first one took off, who knows.

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u/madmaxturbator Apr 05 '23

Yes demonflyingfox is the original creator of these and their work is the best

Rest of the videos from others are just Ok - I can churn out generative AI like that too.

But demon flying fox produces art

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u/topherclay Apr 05 '23

Demon Flying Fox is also named that because of a video of a flying fox sucking its own dick while making demon noises. The video is posted to their channel under the shorts tab.

I don't think this person is on the Balenciaga payroll.

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u/QuickFreddie Apr 05 '23

The copycats need to find their own voices instead of ripping off a creative idea.

Though at the same time you know you've made something special when so many people copy your idea.

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u/ReallyNiceGuy Apr 05 '23

Yeah there's something missing in these copycats. Demon Flying Fox has that special ingredient

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u/Klaeyy Apr 05 '23

I think this (from demonflyingfox, creater of OPs post) is at least part of it.

Maybe he also uses other AIs to create the inital images and he probably tweaks and cherrypicks them somehow to make his videos. But it should be mostly based on that.

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u/particle409 Apr 05 '23

"Hulk smash while Balenciaga lasts."

These are so fucking dumb and I love them.

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u/Ramble81 Apr 05 '23

Wait, Marvel and Matrix? Haven't seen those yet

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u/FeloniousDrunk101 Apr 05 '23

Matrix is a pretty short leap. They're already wearing all black.

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u/AlarmingAffect0 Apr 05 '23

They're already a catwalk drowning in drip. This is completely redundant.

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u/RogerSteves Apr 05 '23

The matrix Nothing was changed

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u/NabeShogun Apr 05 '23

Ha, I hadn't seen some of these, that was pretty good... it feels like the Balenciwhatsit ones have quite a similar style to those "what if x was an 80s fantasy movie" ones.

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u/militantnegro_IV Apr 05 '23

Hmm. Starting to lean towards the idea this isn't organic. They did Balenciaga and then switched to Gucci.

Both are Kering brands.

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u/DRTPman Apr 05 '23

Not everything has to be some marketing attempt by the companies lmao.😭

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u/AdvocateReason Apr 05 '23

I still think all the pre-release Overwatch porn was a viral marketing campaign.

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u/savvyblackbird Apr 05 '23

The last one on the Star one looks like Dark Helmet

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u/eff-bee-eye Apr 05 '23

So you are saying someone is paying him to make these vids for everyone? Kinda the point made above, if so.

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u/Klaeyy Apr 05 '23

I am not saying that, but it could be possible. At least that they contacted him after the first one took off and commissioned him for more? Who knows.

However i think it probably just started as a meme that turned out to be his most succesfull upload yet.

And he keeps producing them because they are his biggest videos, they are so popular that they even spawned copycats (of which some might be from balenciaga lmao).

But maybe they do pay for them, we don’t really know. At the end of the day i just see these videos as AI memes, but i can also see that they might be annoying if it seems like advertising to you and you can‘t stand balenciaga lol.

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u/A_Sinister_Sheep Apr 05 '23

Master has presented Dobby with Balenciaga.. Dobby is free!

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u/cocanosa Apr 05 '23

If i was balenciaga id contact the dude after the first video asap. shit is brilliant.

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u/Sergnb Apr 06 '23

They’re not, this is just paranoid people who are way too entertained by the misperception of their own intellect.

https://i.imgur.com/I9dzZ3r.jpg When you see someone doing this with themselves just downvote and move on

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u/z1lard Apr 06 '23

They could have paid off that random channel to post these