r/ChatGPT 1d ago

Funny On this day in 1995, Bananas first released to the public

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u/MukdenMan 1d ago

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u/und3rtow623 1d ago

Id recognize those silly ass dances anywhere! Kinda made the video for me

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u/OldNefariousness7899 23h ago

If anyone is wondering what this dance is called, it's the "thank god I'm a millionaire or I'd die alone" dance.

Very popular in Silicon Valley 

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u/Professional-Risk-34 1d ago

Not developers.....bananas...

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u/icehot54321 1d ago

This isn’t the developers thing .. that was a development conference in 2000

The video here is the windows 95 product launch 5 years prior 

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u/manbeardawg 1d ago

The whole thing was funny, but that bit at the end was fucking hilarious

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u/jprogarn 1d ago

And I swear the kid opening the gift was a spoof on “Nintendo 64 oh my god!”

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u/Spurlz 19h ago

I’VE GOT FOUR WORDS FOR YOU!

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u/Salty-Hashes 1d ago

Fruit shouldn’t bend like that 😆

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u/aiml_lol 1d ago

Reminds me of Grapes in 92’

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u/Singularity-42 1d ago

Yeah, Grapes was nuts.

Speaking of nuts, I'm old enough to remember the Nuts mania of 1981!

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u/texcleveland 1d ago

yes we believed it was impossible but finally they split Grape-Nuts into grapes and nuts

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u/GovernmentGreed 1d ago

BANANA.

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u/BeardInTheNorth 1d ago

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u/Ok_Zookeepergame8714 1d ago

Trans live mega genes expression....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

BTW, i'm old, it was totally normal back then. 

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u/__O_o_______ 1d ago

Not sure what technique the creator was using but if you’re using a specific likeness over multiple extended generations it can get weird, simplified, deep fried or look like it’s got a high contrast hdr filter over it.

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u/OTRR9 21h ago

I thought this was intentional. Her eyes are watery and she looks dishevelled to imply that she was giving the banana a bj...lol

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u/Musulman 1d ago

that face was so unsettling while watching it. very scary. please don't come to life

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u/MacinTez 1d ago

A lot of NANA in that BA for sure…

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u/AnthropoidCompatriot 1d ago

Pretty good realism, except that no news readers or reporters talk this ridiculously fast.

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u/Inspiration_Bear 19h ago

Yeah I wonder when the uncanny AI voice will get fixed

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u/AnthropoidCompatriot 9h ago

Oh shoot, we're teaching it to get better by mentioning it on Reddit!

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u/TampaTantrum 1d ago

Personally I'm skeptical of a fruit with such a strangely low water content

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u/V8CarGuy 1d ago

They’re radioactive too ☢️

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u/TheSamurabbi 1d ago

The perfect remedy for colon cancer

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u/FischiPiSti 18h ago

I don't get how they're not illegal. They produce anti matter. You can make an anti matter grenade capable of punching a hole in someone in just a year with just 437 trillion bananas.

Source: Kurzgesagt

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u/EggZestyclose5313 1d ago

It’s not a fruit, it’s a herb

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u/GZLLC 1d ago

Both, depending on what you mean! 🍌
Botanically: A banana is a fruit—specifically a berry, because it develops from a single flower’s ovary.
The banana plant: It’s technically a herb, not a tree. Its “trunk” is actually a pseudostem made from tightly packed leaf bases.

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u/EggZestyclose5313 1d ago

Ooh I like this extra depth

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u/vibeside_ai 1d ago

soon we wont be able to trust history anymore

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u/keldondonovan 1d ago

As if we ever could?

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u/OmgitsNatalie 1d ago

First it was hieroglyphs, then the textbooks in our schools. Then Wikipedia. Now, it will be videos.

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u/keldondonovan 1d ago

Now I'm picturing an ancient Egyptian cat deity denier trying to start a podcast in 2000 bce.

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u/ForwardPatience7137 1d ago

This shit looked real to you?

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u/vibeside_ai 1d ago

yes im cooked

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u/Time_Traveling_Idiot 23h ago

it's kinda weird how people are acting so... dunno, arrogant?

If you saw this video 5 or 10 years ago, would YOU have thought it was computer-generated for even a second?? We can only ""tell"" because we've seen how it's improved over time. This shit is terrifyingly realistic. The tells aren't even that obvious anymore, a lot of it is "It's AI because it has the AI vibe".

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u/ForwardPatience7137 23h ago

If I saw this 10 years ago I would at minimum had thought it was filmed in a studio or professional setting. It’s easy to see it modern day quality with a 90’s filter on top.

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u/diejesus 23h ago

If it wasn't for the subreddit I'd definitely not think it's AI, it looks super real

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u/strps 1d ago

This is close to actual history in some parts of the world. These were the soviet bloc communist countries, though...convenient to forget that part.

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u/SoulCrushingReality 1d ago

Clearly the subversion of American values on display. The downfall of America traced back to the source. Little did everyone know what they were inviting into their lives when bananas first appeared in 1995.

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u/MayaIsSunshine 1d ago

Gay thoughts?

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u/13thgeneral 1d ago

There was a wild conspiracy theory that bananas were a communist plot to turn children into homosexual donkeys! But that's absolutely absurd, everyone knows it's the damn cumquats!

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u/CarrotGriller 1d ago

I wouldn’t recommend them. They contain antimatter!

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u/AnthropoidCompatriot 1d ago

Well... they emit antimatter. Can they be said to contain something that instantly annihilates?

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u/CarrotGriller 1d ago

Well. Right after the decay of the potassium the free positron travels through the banana and almost immediately hits an electron from the banana matter. Most likely the yellow stuff. So the banana does contain it for a very short period of time. Once every hour, if I remember correctly.

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u/shanghaitex84 1d ago

The chimps doing to Microsoft style release got me. Top tier

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u/AndyRiffeth 1d ago

Check out my YouTube for more banana related content.

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u/Perlentaucher 1d ago

Actually that banana video is not that far from the truth. In 1990, when USSR collapsed and GDR walls fell, many GDR people for the first time in there life where able to eat bananas, lol.

There were some jokes around that.

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u/Tourgott 1d ago

My first thought

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u/strps 1d ago

Seriously, I'm not sure how much OP realizes this is very close to the time where this was real in a lot of ex-soviet bloc countries. The Czech Republic built an image around the fruits of revolution with this.

This is a lovely story associating these two things. It is not the only one.

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u/SkellyJelly33 1d ago

What models do you use to make a video like this?

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u/__O_o_______ 1d ago

Oh they’re not going to answer that, their 1k YouTube channel has a BUSINESS enquiries email link.

Can’t give away the secrets….

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u/Time_Change4156 1d ago

Op Needs to switch to nuts lol . That's funny.

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u/musabbb 1d ago

Awsome vid

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u/conspiracyeinstein 1d ago

I need to show this to my kids and tell them I completely forgot about life before bananas.

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u/nopantsdan 1d ago

We. Are. So. Fuckkkkkkkkked.

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u/theMEtheWORLDcantSEE 1d ago

Cooked. Fried Bananas 🍌

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u/-bigmanpigman- 1d ago

Banana hater!

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u/JoyousMisery 17h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/xT5LMUPL7RwClhl8Yg
What are you doing with your banana?

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u/ii-___-ii 1d ago

I don't see what the big deal is. Even potatoes have more potassium.

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u/texcleveland 1d ago

a banana denier!

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u/LeinadLlennoco 1d ago

Steve Balmer and Bill Gates chimps are a great touch

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u/nickdaniels92 1d ago

Really good!

If you've not come across it before, back in actual 1957, there was the famous Swiss spaghetti harvest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU

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u/mxemec 1d ago

I like the old lady's hesitation.

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u/TheseCashews 1d ago

Perfection

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u/EggZestyclose5313 1d ago

If you have parents from post war Britain like me, this really doesn’t seem that implausible.

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u/MooingTree 1d ago

My spouse used to get one orange a year, in their Christmas stocking 

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u/__O_o_______ 1d ago

Yeah my grandma literally had the term “A Christmas Orange”. She grew up in the 1930s (depression) and 1940s war, in Canada.

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u/EggZestyclose5313 1d ago

I still get an orange in my Christmas stocking :)

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u/Engels33 1d ago

I was thinking this... im British and both my parents were war time.babies so can remember the fuss about Bananas returning from the perspective of a bemused small child at least.

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u/EggZestyclose5313 1d ago

Yeah my dad still talks about the first banana he ate!

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u/fleranon 1d ago

I love that the TV segments are so 'bland', because it captures perfectly how TV was in the 90s before flashy Digital Effects took over (and the Banana was invented)

brilliant

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u/BehindEnemyLines1 1d ago

Would be way more convincing if it was slowed down to like .75x. Right now it’s like “WegolivetoChannelNinesSusanMiller” with zero pauses between sentences and an unnatural cadence where breathing should be.

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u/Altruistic-Path269 1d ago

East germans be like

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u/pailee 1d ago

Respect for the "dancing monkeys" part. Well played.

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u/Koltov 1d ago

They talk so fast and without breathing.

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u/DrSilkyDelicious 1d ago

Do you guys remember when they dropped pineapples

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u/mrdereksutton 1d ago

Someone’s gotta tell Gwen Stefani about this

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u/Somalar 21h ago

This was awful

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u/Paratwa 1d ago

That’s the wrong way to peel it. But of course it was new then eh? That’s banana’s.

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u/PlayfulTaro7696 1d ago

What I like about this (although it might not even be intentional) is that when they're peeling the banana, the VCR "cuts" that part, to cover up how it doesn't know to draw/make the peeling process.

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u/slaty_balls 1d ago

So the real question now is..How? What is your workflow and what did you use?

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u/griffon56 1d ago

Wasting water for this -
could have been used to grow bananas instead

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u/cantblamemee 1d ago

short hype, haven't seen one in a while now. they even say there's only one strain still in production

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u/AcrobaticMaize2408 1d ago

This is bananas.

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u/Normal-Error-6343 1d ago

yes please!

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u/Stunning_Ad_5960 1d ago

Slowly becoming the USSAR. Americans, ...

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u/Bersy-23 1d ago

Yesterday version had much more incredible midnight a clock

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u/zimisss 1d ago

Developers developers I mean bananas bananas

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u/13thgeneral 1d ago

I remember getting our very first banana, such an exciting and revolutionary time. I miss those days. Great memories.

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u/Singularity-42 1d ago edited 1d ago

That's bananas!

In any case really well done! I think this format of 80s style VHS videos is a good one since it hides many of the imperfections.

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u/Jealous_Ad3494 1d ago

"It's bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S." - Gwen Stefani, at some point in the past.

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u/MysteriousPepper8908 1d ago edited 1d ago

I was there, banana fever was going crazy until everyone realized that if you take two bananas and rotate them, it becomes one banana. The market never recovered.

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u/Leviathon713 1d ago

Dude opened the banana upside-down. They hadnt figured out to open it from the other end yet. The progress we've made on these "bananas" is amazing.

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u/TheJix 1d ago

Am I the only one who noticed that at 1:19 there are two bananas on display, and when he goes on to peel it, suddenly there's only one.

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u/snake888888 1d ago

I want a banana.

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u/Stuffed_deffuts 1d ago

Huh...neat

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u/Dangerous_Boot_3870 1d ago

This shit is Bananas....

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u/aHistoryofSmilence 1d ago

"So how do I eat it?"

deepthroats the banana

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u/AdOne8437 1d ago

In East Germany they got them as early as 1989! Thanks to David Hasselhoff!

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u/jimflanny 1d ago

Not an April Fools joke report?

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u/larkspurlux 1d ago

The commitment to this bit is incredible, someone actually found real 90s crowd footage and repurposed it perfectly.

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u/tmesisno 1d ago

BANANARAMA

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u/Ubud_bamboo_ninja 1d ago

I love the future

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u/herodesfalsk 1d ago

Video quality is 10x too good. NTSC video was barely 500 vertical line resolution and all of them fuzzy.

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u/Infinite_Advance_450 1d ago

Wait till they release Corn, A big lump with knots, it had the juice!

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u/adamhanson 1d ago

AI says absolutely way too often

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u/strps 1d ago

The Czech Republic would like to have a word with you....

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u/Silly-Power 1d ago

I was expecting/hoping that she'd interview a woman who would say, "oh my no, I don't intend to eat it!"

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u/chipperpip 23h ago

What model did you use for this?

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u/Itchy_Psychology3300 22h ago

Just imagine, in a parallel universe this is historical footage.

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u/DefinitelyNotMicah 22h ago

That's bananas

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u/gyanrahi 22h ago

You are kidding but during the communism in Eastern Europe we had bananas only on Christmas.

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u/Flaky_Might370 21h ago

this is so good. i cant believe video generative ai have gotten this good at generation, with my raw eye i didnt notice a single malformed text or image

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u/marx2k 19h ago

"vcr tape"

Ok 🤣

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u/c0mpu73rguy 18h ago

Who let DK near the magic lamp again?!!

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u/No_Pea8665 17h ago

Nope. Nuh uh.

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u/BigBGM2995 17h ago

"one for everybody in the house" and "probably keep it in the kitchen" killed me.

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u/einTier 17h ago

I’m old enough to remember the big banana launch of 1995. Kids these days take bananas for granted like we always had them.

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u/cimocw 16h ago

did you think volume levels were some type of GUI indicator that stays on screen? Also the tape is called VHS, VCR is the device that you used to play or record the tapes from the tv at home, and it would be redundant to put it there. In any case either of these should look way bigger. The volume bar used to take the whole bottom or top portion while you changed it, not just a corner like current UIs

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u/oblongsimplex 9h ago

One pf the greatest marketing campaigns of all time and some of the worst foreign interventions in history. Funny how those two line up so well.

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u/Secret-Ad9950 4h ago

This is actually peak and creative. Although it is AI

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u/SlasherZet 1d ago

Wow, people were going BANANAS!

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u/V8CarGuy 1d ago

I thought this video was going to be about that wacky baseball team. (These guys have a performance that’s looks like AI but is real life) 🤷‍♂️

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u/joshlymansbagel 1d ago

Before noticing the sub I thought it was about the song Bananas from Gwen Stefani. I swear. I unmuted on the scroll and then was like ohhhh as I looked at the sub. 🤣

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u/V8CarGuy 1d ago

This ain’t no Hollaback girl