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Dylan Abrascato (0:00)
Our president here at TVPN, Dylan Abrascato, headed to the TVPN newsletter, which you can sign up for@tvpn.com and wrote a fantastic essay summarizing a trend that we've been discussing with him around how AI is changing meme making. And I found it very interesting. I'm glad that he wrote this piece and so we'll read through this and then discuss it, debate it, and see where we can take it further.
John (0:22)
And then obviously, and Dylan's from Long Island, New York, so John is going to be I'm going to do it
Dylan Abrascato (0:27)
in a Dylan Abrascato impression. Memes are changing. That became abundantly clear during the Oscars a few weeks ago when Conan tried to create a New Leonard Leonardo DiCaprio meme that's just like UFC announcer to go alongside the classic Leo memes. In doing so, especially by using tfw, that Feeling when and the blocky white font that defined early Internet memes, he inadvertently demonstrated that the meme templates millennials grew up with have become increasingly stale, even cringe. It's a good point. Instead, AI generated videos are the new meme template that every network and studio should be focusing their launches on. Look at what's happening with the Harry Potter reboot. When the trailer first dropped, the reaction to the new Snape played by Ghanaian. Sorry, Ghanaian from. He's from Ghana. English actor Papa Isidu was predictably and unfortunately negative. According to the LA Times, he received death threats since being cast in the new role. But after a few incredibly viral and well produced AI videos, one, an original Snape vs Black Snape MMA match and another AI generated rap video and another Dripwarts the school of Drip. The narrative has started to shift. Have you seen any of these? The quote Unquote original Snape vs black Snape MMA match? Because I have not seen this one and I think it is illustrative of what Dylan is talking about here. Snape. The Snape in the UFC ring. Here we go. Really photorealistic. Does this, does this. Are there any red flags here as a UFC enjoyer? Does this feel like a proper UFC actual video quality? So bulky. The video quality is insane. Wait, but old Snape won in the fight?
John (2:22)
Yeah.
Dylan Abrascato (2:23)
Okay, but I think it just. I. Okay, wait, how. How do you know that it just sort of like makes the characters more entertaining, more fun. Shows you that this is just creativity. At the end of the day, this is just. You should not be so up in arms about something that's a movie like it's entertainment and here's some more entertainment. And so you're. You're adding entertainment to the discussion and people are enjoying that. There's another AI generated rap video about the new Snape, which we can pull up a little bit of here.
