Wait, why is Weird Al making videos about magic beds in the first place?
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Times are tough for parody artists
I call for a permanent kerning and specific stylization of the letter "I" so this issue is not further confused.
These are the dangers of sans-serif fonts.
I prefer calling it 'a.i.' because I'll be damned if I'm going to give it capital letters.
Four characters feels like a lot of effort. I think I'd prefer to just not talk about it.
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This was actually my first thought when I saw the original headline 😂🤣 I watched the Weird Al mockumentary just last week (weird af, but I liked it overall? Kinda jumped a shark or three towards the end)
read it three times and was wondering why Trump would censor Yankovic
The report then cuts to AI Trump speaking in direct, complete sentences inconsistent with the president’s normal speaking patterns.
lol
Dude. I genuinely thought it was "Weird AL". Was losing my mind trying to figure out what the fuck was happening
I'm so happy to know I'm not the only one thinking Weird Al got deleted lmao.
Impossible, he's far too powerful
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You and me both! Probably a lot of us for that matter. What makes it worse is that the mental image of Weird AL making a short video singing about magic beds kinda tracks for me. I was just wondering what Trump was sharing it for. I know that man isn't cool enough to have an appreciation for Weird AL
"Weird Al, or as I call him not so weird Al, because weird is such a nasty word. Nasty, nasty word. That's what they called me. They called me weird, it was very unfair. I'm very Normal. But the media, and the left, the antifa, they called it wrong. They're weird, everyone thinks so."
-djt, probably
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Are his followers losing their medicaid soon? This must be the carrot they're showing to still support him.
“Medbeds” is a conspiracy that has spread extensively through far-right, QAnon circles. The idea is that the American government has access to futuristic medical pods that can cure any disease and even regrow limbs, but liberals have been hiding this information from the American public. One sect of QAnon believes the government is using a medbed to keep JFK alive.
One sect of QAnon believes the government is using a medbed to keep JFK alive.
So not only do the "liberals" have magical medbeds but they've had them since 1963 and somehow managed to keep them secret for 62 years?
The real question is why the fuck would they be using it to keep RFKjr alive of all people.
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Cult like behavior
You keep lying to the followers and the organization maintains its power as long as the lies flow and the followers keep believing in everything, no matter how untrue they may be.
They will all die believing in the lies.
I'm really starting to think many of them don't believe the lies so much as just not having the intestinal fortitude to face the embarrassment of admitting they were wrong or easily duped. After so many of their prophecies' expected due dates pass them by without coming to fruition, deep down they have to know the truth eventually - it's the idea that they'll be mocked mercilessly if they admit the truth that they're afraid of.
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
That's the reason why it's so dangerous.
If they die believing the lies .... to them, up to the moment of their death, they would have never been wrong.
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See, the problem with all of these insane conspiracy theories is: who would want to do that? Why would anyone do that for any reason? Especially considering that, if they went public with the technology, they could make, like, a kajillion dollars.
These people watch too many James Bond movies where the villain wants to destroy the world. I’m always like, “dude, you live on the world!“
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So like, he saw the video, didn't remember making it, and just thought "Shit, I did something amazing, people gotta know!".
This has to be the first time someone was tricked into believing something about themselves by AI, right? "I don't remember doing that, but there's video so it must have happened"
i'm sure someone's pulled a prank on a friend who was blackout drunk where they made an AI video of friend doing something stupid. Like eating an entire 5 gallon jar of pickles without chewing or idk, this isn't really my type of prank.
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"bizarre" or a font with serifs would have saved us all some confusion.
Weird AI Slopovic
I'm quite sure it was on purpose for clicks.
Trump deletes Weird Al video? Goddammit I want my Weird Al video, even though I don’t know what song he’s parodying with a title like ”Shilling Magic Beds”..
In any case Weird Al is a national treasure, you can’t just delete his videos willy-nilly goddammit!!
/s
that's what I thought at first too.
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When did Weird Al start making tech spoof music videos instead of parody music videos?
You misread, I think. It's a weird A1, like mayo flavored or something
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Strangely enough, this is not the first time this month I've misread Weird AI as Weird AL
I love how deep-facebook boomer mindrot is the official stance of my government! It only got better when the mindrot could generate itself at the low low price of boiling an ocean!
Fuck this reality man. Who can I talk to about cashing it in for a new one?
It was very off putting to hear Trump speak in an adult mature way. Clearly terribly trained AI.
I read the title as Weird AL and was very confused.
I would like all future headlines referring to Trump to specify his age.
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Trump 79 dies…
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