Article 57N9Y Hitler and Stalin sing "Video Killed the Radio Star"

Hitler and Stalin sing "Video Killed the Radio Star"

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Rob Beschizza
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This video is a funny and quite disturbing masterpiece of applied fakery (but not deepfakery), showing how adeptly computers can not only animate faces from a single photographic source but fall into a sweet spot between realism and animation's squash and stretch.

As amusing as it is, the trivializing charm of it will please far-right trolls. Many moons ago I made a Downfall-style parody where I added false English subtitles to the German-language He-Man intro (embedded below). Intended to satirize the sublimated yet overwhelming Aryanness of He-Man, it's how I learned that there are people on the internet making light of things who get in touch with you to make heavy plans if they think you're one of them.

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