Deepfakes

"*I think it goes to show the point of today's lesson, in which we discuss the fragile nature of our understanding of reality and how deepfake technology stands to shatter that understanding.*"
―Erik
Deepfakes is the 99th lesson of Internet Comment Etiquette. It was released on June 21, 2019.

## Summary

Hillary Clinton tells everyone how great Erik is and asks people to Pokémon GO subscribe to his channel. But then it turns out it's actually just Erik wearing a mask. He explains that there's an even better way to fake something like that with deepfakes. Then Hillary demands a kiss from her students.

Erik goes to his library, but it's actually just a greenscreen. He watches a video of fake Mark Zuckerberg. Erik notices that all of the comments are against deepfakes, so he leaves a comment defending deepfakes.

Erik deepfakes himself as Mark Zuckerberg and talks about how much he hates NordVPN because he can't spy on people that use it.

Next, Erik finds a video of Obama saying a bunch of rude things. It turns out it wasn't really Obama, and it was actually a video warning people about deepfakes. Erik thinks back to April 15, 2012, when Erik realized that deepfakes would be a problem after Tupac was brought back from the dead with a hologram. Then Hillary Clinton comes back and tells people to Pokémon GO to NordVPN.com/bigmoney.

## Comments

*I don't know what everybody's so worried about, deepfakes rule! I deepfaked my ex-wife's face into a porn scene and got custody of my kid, and when the judge found out what I did I deepfaked HIS face into a porno and got him disbarred. Then some hot shot over at the FBI started looking into what I was doing so I looked him up on Facebook, got some pictures of where he goes on vacation, found the address, then deepfaked his ass to the bottom of the atlantic! Next up I might deepfake some accountability into the 9/11 commission report and see if Facebook wants to hire me because either way I'm just gonna make a video where Mark Zuckerberg says I got the job and it doesn't even matter if I get fired the next day, it'll still get me off real hard because one of my many kinks is shitting in the employee bathroom of a fortune 500 company. Elon Musk let me shit all over his chest while he was tripping on mushrooms so it'll be tough to beeat that, but then again maybe I just deepfaked that footage you'll never know fuck you investigate benghazi*
- Erik

*Hey just in case you guys aren't freaked out about deepfakes, um I'm a complete creep who likes to take your pictures off Facebook or Reddit or wherever and deepfake them into videos of my butthole? Like I take really long videos of my butthole and try to make it mouth along to
what you're saying and I gotta do that with like chopsticks and stuff lol obviously but then I put your face on my butthole and post it on Butthole Mike69.com. So like, imagine if you run for president and when people google your name the number one hit is Butthole Mike69.com which I've created for my butthole deepfakes. Anyway I'm Butthole Mike69 come back check out my butthole deepfakes, I'm a girl and Obama blew up pearl harbor*
- Erik

*Yooo they need to get a Bob Dylan hologram I mean he's not dead or anything but he sounds old as shit now and it's kinda weird. You get that young Bob Dylan on the stage, I'll pay twice as much to see that shit! Yo wait isn't Prince dead too? I mean I've never seen him in concert so hey pfft load up that hologram machine cause I'm ready to spend Disney money to see this artist who I never appreciated until he was already gone. In the same vein why couldn't Robin Williams just play the Genie in the new Aladdin movie? Why'd you have to resurrect Will Smith's career to get it done when you had a perfectly good ghost just sitting in Adobe After Effects waiting to be used? If we're gonna full Weekend At Bernie's here, I'd like to propose we create a hologram of my dead dick because that thing hasn't moved in weeks and I really miss seeing what it looked like whenever I got off to deepfake videos of talking buttholes and sexy snapchat face swaps!*
- Erik

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