A phone app that took a selfie and made it sing eleven seconds of a pop song with wildly exaggerated mouth movements and head bobs, a month after Deep Nostalgia and considerably less dignified. Used on friends, pets, paintings and politicians. Tens of millions of downloads in spring 2021. The record's entry for the AI app that was purely stupid, and better for it.
The record notes the choice of songs: a small menu of hits everyone knew, with the model trained on one dancer's performance of each. Every face did the same eyebrow raise on the same beat, and that sameness was the joke.
Seen in 2021 as a company all-hands intro: the executives' headshots singing in sequence. It got a laugh and then a request to never do it again.
Wombo, spring 2021. Died in a season, like a filter. Survived by the company's later image generator, which nobody connected to the singing.
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