Y’all ready for the meme you can never erase from your memory?
Someone recently face-swapped Will Smith’s face onto Cardi B, and it truly has me questioning if we’ve gone too far with technology.
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Maybe we were never meant to have this power.
You’ve probably used face-swapping on Snapchat.
Rather than the puppy or bunny filters, which only add to your face, face-swapping involves replacing your whole face.
For instance, one of the best vines of all time used Snapchat’s face-swapping feature. Yer a wizard, Harry.
Face-swapping is also referred to as “deepfakes.”
This image comes from a video where Bill Hader slowly transforms into Arnold Schwarzenegger.
I know. I’m freaked out, too. It looks like a young Schwarzenegger who was just starting out bodybuilding.
The clip itself is hilarious, though.
The editor took advantage of Hader doing a Schwarzenegger impression to slowly morph his face into Arnold’s, and then slowly morph it back.
To date, the video has almost 6 million views. Like, I’m impressed. Terrified, but impressed.
Using deepfakes for comedy might be the future of comedy itself.
Instead of having actors do impressions in full makeup (think Alec Baldwin playing Donald Trump on SNL ), real-time face-swapping technology could actually paste Trump’s face onto Alec Baldwin.
Guys, I kinda want to see that.
This has me on the FLOOR.
Whoever thought of switching Jennifer Lawrence’s face with Steve Buscemi’s, I just want to say thank you.
I also want to know why you did it, but I feel like the reason is obvious: because why not?
Someone decided that Will Smith and Cardi B needed to be swapped.
Let’s not question why this happened, but celebrate the fact that it did.
It’s not every day that we get to see art created and go viral in real time, right?
@mystergiraffe , you have given the world a gift.
Cardi had some QUESTIONS.
Cardi immediately hopped on Instagram to question what on Earth was going on.
(Actually, this was her second attempt at a comment, because she said “use” instead of “us” the first time. She forgot to delete the first comment, though. Oh, Cardi.)
The video Mr. Giraffe chose was perfect, too.
The clip is from an interview Cardi B did with. It’s basically her—sorry, Will—explaining how she got the name “Cardi B.”
“My sister name is Hennesy, right? So everybody used to call me Bacardi.”
This is so funny with Will Smith’s face.
“So that was my Instagram name, like Bacardi, BacardiB, right? But, for some reason, my Instagram keep getting deleted.
And I think it was Bacardi that had something to do with it. So I just shortened it to Cardi B.”
Cardi uploaded the video to her Instagram, too.
She captioned it, “That one time I drank biotin.”
(That basically is her saying that she drank it to grow Will’s facial hair, for anyone who needed the joke to be explained.
Also, sorry I had to explain a joke.)
The comments were all full of the exact same emoji.
I mean, how else do you react to something so…weird?
Celebrity after celebrity rolled in with the crying laughing emoji, and variations of, “I’m dead.”
It’s nice to know that celebs and stans have the same language.
This comment broke me as a person.
Remember how I felt bad about explaining a joke?
I don’t feel bad anymore.
Also, someone else pointed out that they have the same lips, so I’m going to be contemplating that for a while.
Boy, Jordan sure is an over-sharer.
Filed under: things that are perfectly fine, but I fully do not want to read about in Will Smith’s Instagram comments section.
Do you hear me, Jordan? Keep that in the DMs where it belongs.
And now it’s time to get serious.
As funny as this is, and as obviously fake as it is, this commenter hit the nail on the head: this sort of technology can be dangerous.
And they’re not alone in thinking it.
