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[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 53 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

It's like that Turning Point guy, where the internet is littered with shrunken face photos to the point they're inevitably going to leak into official records.

Wouldn't it be hilarious if this is what an AI model latched onto for these guys? To the point that when someone requests a picture of the Turning Point guy or JD Vance, there are so many memes that the machines factor them into requested portraits?

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 week ago

If you wanted to illustrate the point, you should've put his photo with the face shrunk, not the original unedited photo.

[–] comeonitsnotlike@feddit.nu 7 points 1 week ago

This is GOLD, Jerry! GOLD!!

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I truly lost the plot on this meme lol. How did this even start?

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The babyface shops? It was just funny. Then a few days ago I think a Norwegian got turned back at the border literally because he had one of those on his phone. Apparently.

[–] DragonOracleIX@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago

Not just turned back, he was detained and treated as if he was a terrorist before being denied entry.

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
[–] SoupBrick@pawb.social 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] PentastarM@midwest.social 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

for the people using dark mode

Yeah if the clarinets are gonna catch strays why not make him a centaur

[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Thanks; updated.

[–] hdnsmbt@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Careful with that, they'll detain you trying to enter the US with contraband like this.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Jokes on you. I have no necessity to enter that cesspit.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How long do you think it'll be before they start grabbing the occasional person off the streets in other countries like Bush II did?

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

From that, you can never be safe with Americans, Israelis, Russians, and the Chinese.

[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

"I regret I have but one meme to give to my country"

-Nathan Hale, probably

[–] bufalo1973 13 points 1 week ago

The best part is that people in 3025 won't know... because he won't be remembered.

[–] crawancon@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

hey man leave clarinets out of this.

[–] lemmylommy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

JD: This one time, at band camp …

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago
[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is this just how zoomer grammar looks like?

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I was going to say west coast US has long used "like" as a filler word but the more i look at it the more I'm thinking where you place emphasis matters here. If emphasis is placed on "looks" instead of "this" then it could just as well be more British.

[–] imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

When people say "how it looks": I sleep

When people say "what it looks like": I sleep

When people say "how it looks like": real shit

[–] evenglow@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I really like where this is going.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago

The one that dude got deported over, I swear to god looks more like Notch, the dude who made Minecraft, than it does of JD Vance lol

[–] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 4 points 1 week ago

Looks legit to me

[–] DokiDokiCT@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I can only hope that in that amount of time he's simply forgotten, but if not then yeah this works too.

[–] BuckWylde@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago
[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

we need this

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A perfect meme of Vance doesn’t exis—

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Same portrait of James Donald Bowman, who is the same person as JD Vance.

JD Vance is post-non-op-same-gender of James Donald Bowman.

[–] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

To be honest, I don't know how he looks like now. He's like a shape shifting alien