Thomas Germain

Here's another one.

A lot of this is kind of AI generated images or AI edited images.

They keep cutting back and forth with...

clips of this Twitch streamer, this guy named iShowSpeed.

And there's this version of like an edited image of iShowSpeed that's become like a staple of the Far Lands.

They call it iShowEyes, where it's this guy, iShowSpeed, and his eyes are all like weird and messed up in this kind of uncanny way.

Pretty much, yeah.

Yeah, so there's a very distinct Far Lands aesthetic for sure.

And a lot of it is using, this guy Lucas Wilm that I talked to said he's using a technique that's called data moshing, where you take a video or an image and then you

go in essentially using a computer program or like editing like the code of the file itself in order to make the JPEG or the video look kind of distorted, which is interesting, right?

It's this whole thing where people are, you know, messing with the TikTok algorithm to make it do what they want.

And then the content itself is like messed up, corrupted digital files.

So I don't even know.

I talked to some of these guys who were doing it.

They weren't like necessarily doing this consciously, but even the content itself is like a comment on technology, which maybe we're getting a little too like academic art criticism here.

Some of these have millions of views.

Yeah.

Yeah.

What exactly is going on there is hard to say.

It could be that this thing has broken containment and it has become mainstream.