![]() “I think the ‘meme factor’ is the reason Nic Cage gets used so often. “There is some small technical benefit to a face shape like his, but I don’t think this had a major part to play in his adoption into the deepfaking scene,” Derpfakes explained. To paraphrase Marshall McLuhan, it’s the perfect blend of medium and message. In fact, given the number of face-swaps he has been involved with (going all the way back to John Woo’s 1997 movie Face/off) he may as well be the reason the technology was invented. “It was one of my early successes and still holds up even a year-and-a half on.”Ĭage is, of course, no stranger to deepfakes - as even the most cursory of YouTube searches will attest. “I think my overall favourite is Nic Cage as Lois Lane from Man of Steel,” YouTuber Derpfakes told Digital Trends. You can keep your Kim Kardashian magazine covers true net-savvy users know the real way to break the internet is through Nicolas Cage. Deepfakes, along with editing and context, can have more of an impact than just a simple face-swap.” Elon Musk as a baby “That’s when I realized that there is more than just swapping faces to making a really entertaining video. “I’ve always been big Mike Tyson and Snoop Dogg fan and I was happy they both shared the video on their Instagram accounts,” DrFakenstein continued. Among the best is this video of Mike Tyson and Snoop Dogg as Oprah Winfrey and fellow TV personality Gayle King. The internet is pretty glad he did as the results are glorious. I thought it might be interesting to learn how to do them for a laugh, and figured I could use the crypto mining hardware for deepfakes as it was gathering dust doing nothing.” “I read an article about deepfake technology and had seen a couple of amusing Nicolas Cage deepfakes. “In 2018, the Bitcoin price took a nosedive and it was no longer profitable to mine with the computer equipment I had,” DrFakenstein told Digital Trends. “Quite a lot of time goes into making one, and a seamless result is all you could wish for.” Mike Tyson and Snoop Dogg as Oprah Winfrey and Gayle KingĭrFakenstein started developing deepfakes using a computer bought to mine cryptocurrency. It’s pretty awesome. “When you create a realistic deepfake, it’s very fulfilling,” NextFace said. on Reddit, since it’s easier there to get one post to blow up.”Īside from Ryan Reynolds as Willy Wonka, NextFace’s favorite deepfake is a room filled with Keanu Reeves (Keanu Reeveses?). I started doing them a few months ago after I updated my graphics card. ![]() “Back then, I didn’t have the knowledge and graphics card to make high quality deepfakes. “I became interested when deepfakes first started rising up I believe it was around 2017,” YouTuber deepfake extraordinaire NextFace told Digital Trends. And let’s just say that, as strange as it is to see the Deadpool star in this iconic role, it kinda, well, really works. ![]() Thanks to the magic of deepfakes, however, we can see how he might have looked had he somehow beaten Gene Wilder for the role of everyone’s favorite eccentric chocolate factory owner. Ryan Reynolds wasn’t born for another five years after 1971’s Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory hit theaters. ![]()
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