{"id":134575,"date":"2023-11-27T16:54:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T16:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/?p=134575"},"modified":"2023-11-27T16:54:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T16:54:51","slug":"famous-distracted-boyfriend-meme-is-brought-to-life-using-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/lifestyle\/famous-distracted-boyfriend-meme-is-brought-to-life-using-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous &apos;distracted boyfriend&apos; meme is brought to LIFE using AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Famous &#8216;distracted boyfriend&#8217; meme is brought to LIFE using AI &#8211; as delighted viewers joke &#8216;we can finally find out what happened to the couple&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>X users have shared animated versions of the classic meme created with AI<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>However, many social media users have branded the bizarre results as &#8216;creepy&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyone who&#8217;s been on the internet for a while will recognise the &#8216;distracted boyfriend&#8217; meme.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And now AI is bringing this classic piece of internet history to life in a whole new way.<\/p>\n<p>X (formerly Twitter) users have shared their creepy animations of the iconic meme created using a variety of AI animation tools.<\/p>\n<p>The creators have even created different alternative endings for the meme, letting us imagine what might have happened after that moment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, not everyone is happy with the innovation as some concerned commenters joke that &#8216;nobody asked for this&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/27\/15\/78281503-12795891-Memes_have_entered_the_AI_era_as_X_users_use_generative_video_to-a-69_1701100703016.jpg\" height=\"359\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Memes have entered the AI era as X users use generative video tools to convert classic memes into short animations<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0Twitter user discovers couple from the popular &#8216;distracted boyfriend&#8217; meme appears in a LOT of stock photos\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>X user @fofrAI shared the first of the AI-generated memes, which they created using Stability AI&#8217;s Stable Video tool.<\/p>\n<p>This model allows users to transform word prompts and still images into short videos of between two and five seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The original meme showed a still image of a boyfriend looking back over his shoulder at a passing woman while his girlfriend watches in anger.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In this extended animation, the boyfriend turns fully away from his partner and appears to begin walking after the woman in red.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On X, commenters shared their amazement with the AI-generated clip.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Memes are getting an AI upgrade&#8217;, one social media user wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What a time to be alive!&#8217; added one excited commenter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, another joked that &#8216;after all these years, we can finally find out what happened to the couple.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/27\/15\/78280825-12795891-image-a-70_1701100703016.jpg\" height=\"104\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/27\/15\/78280945-12795891-image-a-71_1701100703017.jpg\" height=\"108\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/27\/15\/78280947-12795891-On_X_formerly_Twitter_social_media_users_shared_their_amazement_-a-72_1701100703017.jpg\" height=\"109\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>On X (formerly Twitter) social media users shared their amazement with the animation calling this an &#8216;AI upgrade&#8217; for memes<\/p>\n<p>However, it wasn&#8217;t long before other X users took it a step further, animating alternative endings for the meme.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a reply to the original post, X user @burconsult posted a second video with the comment: &#8216;Never mind&#8230;&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In the newly edited video, the woman in red appears to turn back and angrily looks at the staring boyfriend who quickly looks away.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The X user quickly followed this up with yet another AI-animated version of the meme saying: &#8216;I don&#8217;t know anymore&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In this AI-generated video, the girlfriend appears to back away from her unfaithful boyfriend with a look of disgust on her face.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a separate post, @burconsult explained that they used the Runway generative AI to convert the still images into short animated clips.<\/p>\n<p>On X, many users were impressed with the innovation and the post sparked a flurry of animated versions of classic memes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some even inserted the original meme into the new animated format to show how people were now leaving the original still images behind.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, not everyone was impressed with the AI&#8217;s creations with some social media users joking that AI had gone too far.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Okay AI needs to be stopped&#8217;, joked one X user, while another added: &#8216;Nobody asked for this&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile one commenter simply wrote: &#8216;This is very creepy&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/27\/15\/78280829-12795891-image-a-73_1701100703018.jpg\" height=\"108\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/27\/15\/78281501-12795891-image-a-74_1701100703019.jpg\" height=\"101\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/27\/15\/78280831-12795891-Not_everyone_was_impressed_with_AI_generated_videos_as_many_X_us-a-75_1701100703020.jpg\" height=\"103\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Not everyone was impressed with AI-generated videos as many X users joked that this was an example of AI going too far<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0The creepy technologies bringing dead celebrities back to &#8216;life&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>Several commenters also pointed out a few of the creepy and unusual elements created by the AI animation process.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While the videos initially look somewhat realistic from afar, closer inspection reveals that the facial features distort bizarrely throughout.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the original post, X users noticed that the face of the woman in red becomes strangely warped as she gets closer to the virtual camera.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One commenter wrote: &#8216;The red one turns into some kind of goblin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I love how the woman in red started to face morph into some creature at the end&#8217;, another commenter wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Commenters also pointed out how clothing, facial hair, people, and cars seemed to appear and disappear at random throughout the video.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the video featuring the woman in red turning to face the boyfriend, X users noticed how the woman appears to grow a cardigan as she turned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The clothes on the lady on the left just&#8230;grow&#8217;, one commenter wrote.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/27\/15\/78282313-12795891-image-a-76_1701100703021.jpg\" height=\"109\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/27\/15\/78280817-12795891-image-a-77_1701100703022.jpg\" height=\"127\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/27\/15\/78280949-12795891-image-a-78_1701100703022.jpg\" height=\"109\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Some commenters pointed out that the AI animation techniques left a number of strange and often creepy artefacts in the video<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/27\/15\/78282981-12795891-One_X_user_uncovered_the_original_set_of_stock_images_where_the_-a-79_1701100703023.jpg\" height=\"471\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>One X user uncovered the original set of stock images where the meme was taken from and found a tumultuous tale of love and betrayal\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is not, however, the first time that the distracted boyfriend meme has been at the centre of a Twitter storm.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Twitter user Andrew J Abernathy discovered that the original photo came from a series of stock images which depicted the couple in various relationship scenarios.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Abernathy strung these photos together into a hilarious story of love and betrayal which went viral over social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In one stock image, the couple are shown holding a baby together which Andrew shared with the comment: &#8216;That man is a deadbeat and you knew it! Now look what happened.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>It was later reported that the original photo had been taken by a 45-year-old photographer from Barcelona called Antonio Guillem\u00a0who had no idea his stock images had become a meme.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Tumbler blog called Meme Documentation has traced the original use of the stock image as a meme to January 30 2017 when it was posted on a Turkish Prog Rock meme page.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-12795891\/Famous-distracted-boyfriend-meme-brought-LIFE-using-AI-delighted-viewers-joke-finally-happened-couple.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famous &#8216;distracted boyfriend&#8217; meme is brought to LIFE using AI &#8211; as delighted viewers joke &#8216;we can finally find out&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Famous &amp;apos;distracted boyfriend&amp;apos; 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