u/Shotgun_Mosquito

All of this is 100% real by the way.

I didn’t go looking for the truth; the truth found me through AI image generation.

It started innocently enough. I was trying to write a parody K-pop song based on Mitch Hedberg’s famous bit about ducks eating Sun Chips in Boise.

I was able to write the song. I think it's hilarious; it's written in a K-Pop style, in both Korean and in English. It has hooks, it had an absurdly catchy beat...it just needed a visual identity to match.

This vision demanded cover art. So, I pulled up a classic photo of Mitch, with his long center-parted hair, his glasses, and his vintage oversized jacket, and I threw it into Gemini to have it generate a female K-pop idol. I made some other adjustments, and then had it generate this creation as if she were dancing at a concert.

THEN I asked it to generate a video, but it gave me a response that said:

There are a lot of people I can help with, but I can't depict some public figures. Do you have anyone else in mind?

I thought..."I guess there's enough Mitch left in this photo, and that is what Gemini picked up on." I just went to bed.

The next morning, I asked Gemini simply "Who is this?"

It responded:

That is Danielle Marsh (Korean name: Mo Ji-hye*), a member of the South Korean girl group* NewJeans*.*

The photo is from her guest appearance on IU's Palette (IU's YouTube talk/music show), where she performed a cover wearing that distinctive denim jacket, lace top, and pink-tinted sunglasses.

That’s when the rabbit hole opened. I hadn't created an absurd caricature. I had just accidentally reverse-engineered Danielle from NewJeans.

I asked the next question:

Can you find all of the relations between Danielle Marsh (Korean name: Mo Ji-hye) and Mitch Hedberg.

And it gave me:

Entertainment Industry: Danielle Marsh is a contemporary singer, performer, and member of the K-pop group NewJeans, while Mitch Hedberg was an American stand-up comedian known for his surreal, one-liner comedy style.

Signature Tinted Glasses: Both are widely recognized for performing in distinctive tinted sunglasses—a signature look Mitch Hedberg wore to help with stage anxiety, and an accessory Danielle frequently sports during stage performances and music show appearances (such as her appearance on IU's Palette).

Generational Divide: Mitch Hedberg passed away in March 2005, just weeks before Danielle Marsh was born in April 2005.

WAIT. Could she be his reincarnation?

The Evidence :

The Uncanny Aesthetic: It wasn't just the jawline or the layered hair. It was also the glasses. Both of them treat tinted sunglasses like a vital organ. Mitch wore them because looking directly at an audience terrified him; Danielle walks onto massive Korean music show sets sporting the exact same 1970s amber lenses.

The Cosmic Timeline: Mitch Hedberg passed away on March 30, 2005. Danielle Marsh was born on April 11, 2005. That is an eleven-day turnaround.

Here's some other evidence

Mitch’s entire trademark stage look consisted of long, disheveled brunette hair parted in the middle, a handheld microphone gripped tight to his mouth, and rose/pink-tinted aviator-style sunglasses worn indoors to combat his stage fright. Danielle’s most viral individual look (from her IU's Palette performance) is an almost eerie replica: center-parted long dark hair, a handheld vocal mic, and rectangular rose-tinted wireframe glasses on an indoor stage.

The "Denim" Connection: Mitch’s comedy is famous for absurd, hyper-specific observational non-sequiturs about clothing, including his bit about jean jackets: "I like to wear a jean jacket, because with a jean jacket, you can't tell where your jacket ends and your pants begin."

Danielle’s breakthrough global concept and group identity is literally NewJeans, with their breakout aesthetic and her IU's Palette look defined head-to-toe by layered denim.

Mitch also famously admitted that his glasses, head-down posture, and stage banter were defense mechanisms because looking at the audience terrified him. Danielle’s variety and backstage appearances often reveal an intensely shy, quirky, surreal sense of humor behind the polished idol veneer, often using tinted glasses and oversized vintage stage outfits as visual shields.

Guys, I'm getting scared.

So I was goofing around last night and thought...wouldnt it be funny (at least for ME) if Mitch Hedberg was actually a K-Pop singer?

So I downloaded a photo, generated both an intermediate transition and secondary transition, then went Gemini to generate a primary stage experience, and then got hit with a violation warning.

Ok I created this nightmare using a variety of tools.

I used Gemini to create the lyrics, Suno to create the song, and then Muvio to create the video.

Gemini gave me a fairly useful set of lyrics to start with. I loaded those into Suno and after LOTS of tweaking to get the song style right (and lots of credits) I got a pretty good song out of it.

In fact, both my wife and my mother in law LAUGHED SO HARD from listen to it.

For those who don't know, this song is in a traditional Colombian style called vallanato.

The song itself is sung by "my wife" to "me" basically telling me that she still loves me even though I snore loudly, that I'm extremely clumsy, and my farts should be banned by the Geneva convention.

Anyways

The video is a complete nightmare for the credits I used to create it.

Muvio presents itself as being a plug and play system, where you just drop in a photo, drop in the music, and after lots of "analysis" it generates an avatar to star in the song and then after listening to the music (and the user providing some additional information about the video) it's supposed to give you a pretty good thing that you can post on your TikToks or whatever to get your clicks.

But look at this monster I created.

It's got the usual expected weird instruments, but then oddities like oily skin, the avatar looks like she either peed on the floor or had her water break from a pregnancy, and the microphone stand jumps all over the place in height.

Does anyone have any hints about using this to generate videos? I'm probably not going to spend any more money on this, and I apologize in advance for making your eyes bleed.

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So I posted this question on anothersub and was referred here.

I don't exactly mind too much what other people think but my wife has been hassling me about my extremely comfortable old man grillin' shoes, New Balance.

What would you folks think about wearing BKs, but not only for looks but also for comfort.

Now, I think that this brand is sold at WalMart(?) today but back in the 80s this was fresh.

Please be honest

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