“The original in this family of memes/content”
Original of the Balenciaga faceswap meme family
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The original in this family of memes/content: this video The channel has some of the best faceswapped AI video.
Harry Potter by Balenciaga
14.9M views · Mar 15, 2023 · 0:55 · 0 HN recommenders · 4 mentions · discussed 2023–2025
A short AI-generated parody video that imagines Harry Potter as a Balenciaga fashion campaign, made with Midjourney, ChatGPT and Eleven Labs voices. It became a viral meme.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN cites it as the original of the Balenciaga AI meme family and as an early viral AI mashup moment.
“The original in this family of memes/content”HN comment, 2023
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“One of the original AI-whoah moments was that italian fashion/harry potter mashup”
Early viral AI-generated mashup video
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One of the original AI-whoah moments was that italian fashion/harry potter mashup [0]. Some time after it came a "making of" video which outlined how they used ChatGPT to prompt Midjourney to create the images [1]. To me, this established using generative systems to create prompts for other generative as an effective pattern for using such systems. 0. this video 1. link
“The two videos that started the meme”
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The two videos that started the meme: this video link > Master has presented Dobby with Balenciaga. Dobby is... free.
“I fear what the unstoppable and inevitable ascendance of Balenciaga might do to the French.”
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> Isn’t it sad that the first $500b+ company from Europe is a peddler of vanity and overpriced luxury items? French top 4 are: - lvmh $496b - Loreal $256b - Hermes $232b - Dior $172b link #9 is EssilorLuxottica (sunglasses), and #11 is a clothing brand. If this sort of Fashion ever goes out of style does that whole country go bankrupt? I fear what the unstoppable and inevitable ascendance of Balenciaga might do to the French. this video