Why does he look so horrendous, dude was relatively handsome IRL:

haha yeah, they could've made a better Pixar version of Marx

and managed to make it a bit better :)

It is!

I hope no AI.

It definitely is :/

Almost certainly, though the only things I can point to are the mismatching eye glints and the eyebrows, though only somewhat for the latter.

This is the og version of this meme. OP's version is slop.

As the character gets older it seems like in the same way the original gave young people ways to understand their feelings of anger and sadness, it wouldn't be the worst idea to have a fully serious but carefully done movie or just short film on dealing with what happens when the feeling 'Horny' takes the controls.

Why post AI slop garbage version?

Because obsession with whether something is AI or not isn't my identity, and I have better things to do with my life than to perseverate over it.

Hm obsession isn't the same as awareness of normalization and the distaste therein.

Nah, it's definitely obsession coupled with deep rooted narcissism assuming everybody needs to listen to your opinion.

Get ratio'd lol

It has the glow

oh no, not my internet points 🤡

You could make this wothout AI in less than 5 minutes on memegenerator or locally with GIMP

You seem to have confused me for somebody who cares which tool was used to make a meme.

Would it have made the meme better? This is a pretty clear-cut example where I think it does practically 0 harm to generate a better image. OP isn't going to hire an artist to draw Marx, and OP doing a shitty job drawing it would certainly add some degree of amateurish charm, but it wouldn't make the meme better. If we are to be Marxists, as the meme implies, there is no actual benefit to making the meme the way you imply.

What would the difference be in grabbing a stock image of Marx? This meme itself is already an older one reposted. How does the AI image make the meme worse beyond your gut reaction that anything using AI is inherently bad? That seems to be more of a moralistic reason to oppose AI usage than a materialist one.

I'm not saying AI does no harm whatsoever, I just think this case is pretty clearly not that bad of a problem.

Just cut out a real imagr from the guy and slap it into the meme. Bam bravisimo meme. No AI bullshit used for classconciousness

You didn't answer my question in any capacity. What would the difference be in grabbing a stock image of Marx?