Luma AI recently launched Dream Machine, an AI-powered text-to-video generation platform that can generate short videos up to 5 seconds long from simple text descriptions. Here are 8 of the most popular still image memes that have recently been converted into videos using Dream Machine.
“Distracted Boyfriend” was one of the first memes transformed by Dream Machine. | Shutterstock
Key highlights
- Luma AI's Dream Machine is a text-to-video platform that uses short prompts to create videos.
- Some of the most popular memes on the internet are images, such as Distracted Boyfriend and Doge.
- These static memes were then put through the Dream Machine, which digitally brought the subjects within to life.
Disaster Girl is one of the most famous memes of all time. In this 2005 photo, four-year-old Zoe Ross stands in front of a burning house with a mischievous smile on her face. The image is Viral After winning a photography contest in 2008, Ross sold it as a non-fungible token (NFT).
The popular meme is based on a stock photo by Spanish photographer Antonio Guillem and shows a man walking with his girlfriend while simultaneously turning his head to look at another attractive woman passing by.
A photo of Kabosu was first posted to a blog by his owner, Atsuko Sato, in 2010. The image went viral in late 2013, with people adding broken Comic Sans English text to the photo to express the dog's inner monologue. The word “Doge” is a deliberate misspelling of “dog,” and the text typically conveys humorous or nonsensical thoughts.
Four. Mark Zuckerberg staring out the window
This famous photo of Mark Zuckerberg is often used satirically to express concerns about the privacy and data collection practices of Facebook, the social media platform he co-founded. The photo of the meth boss peering out a window with a slightly disturbing grin (often at night) is the best-known version.
This face-covering meme features Captain Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation, with the character's actor, Patrick Stewart, covering his face in an expression of frustration. The image is taken from the season three episode “Deja Q,” in which Picard encounters the mischievous Q, a powerful entity who frequently torments Picard.
The sad Pablo Escobar meme is a popular image macro that uses a photo of the notorious Colombian drug lord from the Netflix series Narcos, looking somber and pensive. A typical template uses multiple images of Escobar looking relatively content in the first frame, and then looking increasingly sad and dejected in each subsequent frame.
The photo-turned-video was originally taken by the boy's father, Lance Griner, on a beach in Jacksonville, Florida in 2007. After Griner's sister posted it to Flickr in 2008, it went viral and became one of the most enduring memes of the early internet.
The side-glancing Chloe meme actually originated from a 2013 YouTube video titled “Lily's Disneyland Surprise… Again!” In the video, sisters Lily and Chloe Clem react to news of a surprise trip to Disneyland. While younger sister Lily is overjoyed, older sister Chloe looks shaken and skeptical.
