Photos shared in November 2023 authentically showed Timothée Chalamet and Lana Del Rey in costume, mimicking the so-called “Gay Little Monkey Boy in Apple Store” meme.
On November 19, 2023, two photos were shared, purportedly showing Timothée Chalamet and Lana Del Rey in costume, apparently copying an internet meme titled “Gay Little Monkey Boy in the Apple Store”. Was. The most viral post on X (formerly Twitter) with the caption asking “Is this real” reached This writing was viewed more than 640,000 times.
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– Salvi (@yassambassador) 19 November 2023
one more Post OnX showed a screenshot of a TikTok post with the photo in question and read:
TikTok is really crazy, because like I just looked at one video and the next is an AI generated Lana Del Rey and Timothée Chalamet as gay little monkeys from the Apple Store.
The photos were also shared on Reddit with a caption, “Droth is an epidemic at this point.”
Droth is an epidemic right now
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However, both images had clear signs of being generated using Artificial Intelligence (AI) software. For example, in the image below you can see that Lana Del Rey’s hands have been distorted and are also dissolving into the phone.
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Additionally, in the second photo, reportedly taken at an Apple Store, a blurred “SAFE” sign is visible in the background, both celebrities’ fingers are deformed and Chalamet’s phone has its charging cable attached awkwardly.
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As social media users toldThe AI-generated images appear to be inspired by the “Monkey Boy” meme, which dates back to 2010. Know Your Meme, a website dedicated to documenting such Internet phenomena, published an article about the meme.
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