AI turns a series of famous 'meme' photos into videos

Luma AI just launched Dream Machine, an AI tool capable of creating short videos, up to 5 seconds, from simple text descriptions. Dream Machine has turned a series of the most popular still memes into videos.

Disaster Girl

Disaster Girl is a photo of a 4-year-old girl, Zoë Roth, with a mischievous smile on her face, standing in front of a burning house in 2005. The image won a photo contest in 2008, then went viral. quickly online and became one of the most recognizable memes of all time.

Distracted Boyfriend (Promiscuous boyfriend)

The meme is based on a stock photo by Spanish photographer Antonio Guillem of a man walking with his girlfriend but turning his head to look at another attractive woman passing by.

Doge

The photo of the Shiba Inu dog Kabosu first appeared in 2010. By the end of 2013, the image went viral when people added Comic Sans text in English to the photo to convey a humorous or neutral thought. means.

Mark Zuckerberg stared through the window

This famous image of Mark Zuckerberg was used satirically by netizens to express concerns about the privacy and data collection practices of Facebook, the social media platform he co-founded.

Picard Facepalm (Picard Facepalm Meme)

Meme based on the image of Captain Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek: The Next Generation, covering his face in an annoyed gesture.

Sad Pablo Escobar (Sad Pablo Escobar)

This meme is a popular photo macro featuring the infamous Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar looking sad and pensive, taken from the Netflix movie "Narcos."

Success Kid (Baby holding sand)

The photo was taken in 2007 at the beach in Jacksonville, Florida by the boy's father, Lance Griner. The photo went viral in 2008 and became one of the longest-running memes of the early internet.

Trumpet Boy

Trumpet Boy is a popular meme depicting a boy blowing a trumpet into a girl's ear, often used in humorous contexts to express annoyance at being disturbed.

Isabella Humphrey

Update 18 June 2024