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Harry Potter by Balenciaga

demonflyingfox · 14.9M views · 2023-03-15 · 0:55

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Overview

A short AI-generated parody video that imagines Harry Potter as a Balenciaga fashion campaign, made with Midjourney, ChatGPT and Eleven Labs voices. It became a viral meme.

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HN cites it as the original of the Balenciaga AI meme family and as an early viral AI mashup moment.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2023–2025

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adolph · 2025-06 · Reference

One of the original AI-whoah moments was that italian fashion/harry potter mashup [0]. Some time after it came a "making of" video which outlined how they used ChatGPT to prompt Midjourney to create the images [1]. To me, this established using generative systems to create prompts for other generative as an effective pattern for using such systems. 0. [VIDEO] 1. [LINK]

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rngname22 · 2023-07 · Reference

The original in this family of memes/content: [VIDEO] The channel has some of the best faceswapped AI video.

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threatofrain · 2023-04 · Joke / meme

The two videos that started the meme: [VIDEO] [LINK] > Master has presented Dobby with Balenciaga. Dobby is... free.

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