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Andrew Cuomo Uses AI MPREG Schoolhouse Rock Bill to Attack Mamdani, Is Out of Ideas (www.404media.co)

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[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago (2 children)

mpreg

uhhhhh

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My first thought, too, was "That's an odd choice of wording", but... it's exactly what it sounds like.

[...]But when the bill stands it looks positively inflated, almost as if the video generator used to make Cuomo’s ad was trained on MPREG fetish art of the bill and not the original cartoon itself. The thick and luscious red lips are present whether the bill is leaning or standing.

Towards the end of the ad, an anthropomorphic phone with a ChatGPT logo wanders into the scene. Standing next to the pregnant bill, I could not but help but think that the phone is the father of whatever child the bill carried.

My observation led to an argument in the 404 Media Slack channel and opinions were split. “It does not seem pregnant to me,” said Emanuel Maiberg.

Jason Koebler, however, came to my defense. He circled the pregnant belly of the cartoon bill and shared it. “Baby is stored in the circle area,” he said.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com -5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But, it's not male. The bill is clearly wearing lipstick...

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ahahahaaaa hey let me take you to a bar downtown, I promise it'll be educational.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I know about trans people and cross-dressers. But, in a political cartoon, with characters that are light on details, artists (or AI in this case) will use easily-identifiable, stereotypical signs to showcase a trait or gender. For example, lipstick, or a bow, or a dress or skirt, to identify a character as female.

We all know this and are exposed to this pattern all the time. Or are you seriously suggesting that the bill is trans, but is somehow also pregnant?