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OftenBen · 2171 days ago · link · · parent · post: Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the USA

So, when I first saw this I thought it was a deepfake. The video quality is juuuust poor enough to look like someone trying to obfuscate photo-choppin, the topic and performance juuuust off-color enough to be offensive to literally everyone.

But then I found out that it's one hundred percent real and my brain broke.

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am_Unition · 2171 days ago · link ·

We all need to get in the habit of automatically assuming a deepfake in situations like this one.

+discuss