GraniteM

Not to mention all of the "Thanks to my sponsors, please buy their products" ad breaks inside of the videos themselves.

Okay, but what's going on here?

I agree that it looks more like editing than AI. The finely repeated patterns in the bricks and shutters hold together, whereas in AI those details tend to get all murky and swimmy. It is pretty substandard 'shopping, though.

As ever:

I remember going to Dragon Con the year after this movie and there were SO many dudes dressed up as Nurse Joker, and I have to assume a fair number of them were just holding out for the opportunity and excuse to dress up as the nurse they had always wanted to.

I saw both of these products in the same grocery store on the same day.

Oregon Trail Generation, here.

Me in high school / college: "There are people with conservative views and there are people with liberal views, and while I see myself as a Democrat, I don't think we have all the answers, and surely the path into the future is to find people of all political persuasions and find positive compromise amongst them all to move forward."

Me now: "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles..."

If the US were Balkanized, there would be a never-ending series of (potentially nuclear) wars to control the continent, plus the wars that would break out in places across the globe that only don't have wars because the US has a vested interest in there not being a war in a given location, plus the inevitable takeover of any given location that China has had its eye on.

So... better for the world in the sense that global mayhem even more than we currently experience is better for whom, exactly?