![]() “I want to go on Tucker on Fox News and spread the message because they’re just funny,” Stephen adds. “This isn’t something that’s just for the left or right,” says Craig. We can make this happen.”Ĭraig and Stephen suspect that some Republicans have come across the viral posts and hope that they can find the humor in them, too. On the post of McConnell one user commented, “I will contribute to creating billboards with these in Tennessee, Florida and Texas.” Under the one on Pence’s another user wrote, “Imagine these all over DC and Indiana on Billboards. The page may be prompting its followers to get just as creative in their activism. Here’s the Status of Anti-Drag Bills Across the U.S. Read More: Tennessee Passed the Nation’s First Law Limiting Drag Shows. Artificial intelligence is in every conversation these days and the issues around drag and trans rights are front and center,” Craig says. “It’s pulling together things that are really top of mind for everyone right now. The page’s creators had a gut instinct that people would connect to the project. Between March 30, when it launched, and April 11, the page grew to 2,000 followers as of April 12, it has nearly 100,000 Instagram followers, after users began sharing its images to other platforms like TikTok and Twitter. So far, they say, they’ve used politicians with more of a national spotlight because there are more images out there that AI can pull from. “ are productivity and creativity booster tools, but we’re ultimately the creative decision makers in this and craft the work to make it what it is,” says Craig. An AI-generated image of Justice Clarence Thomas dressed in drag. One of the portraits of Thomas they selected features him in a pink dress and matching sunglasses under a flashy yellow umbrella. ![]() MidJourney then generates hundreds of images, and Craig and Stephen sort through them to pick the ones that eventually make it to Instagram. For example, in a post parodying Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, or ‘Claretta Corrupta,’ on their page, the creators inserted a prompt related to Thomas having a “lavish lifestyle on the beach and on a yacht to portray him as this billionaire’s friend” in reference to recent reporting on Thomas’ friendship with billionaire Republican donor Harlan Crow. MidJourney is a text-to-image application that generates the portraits from detailed and thought-out prompts entered to specify the theme and direction of the photos. The high quality images and brazen titles come with the help of AI tools MidJourney and Chat GPT-4. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Fox News’ Tucker Carlson next. Josh Hawley is ‘Miss Hawl-About-Me.’ Fans are now eagerly sending in requests in the comments for the page to post similar images of Texas Gov. Lindsey Graham is ‘Lady Graham Cracker’ and Sen. Kevin McCarthy is ‘Speaker Sparklebottom’ Sen. And beyond the images, each person gets a drag name in the cheeky captions accompanying the posts. Ron DeSantis, who is now looking to expand his ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Florida law in more schools, donning a bejeweled ball gown. Other images range from Steve Bannon, who has shown support for Russia’s anti LGBTQ+ government, sporting a voluminous blowout to Florida Gov. An AI-generated image of former vice president Mike Pence dressed in drag. The following post was former Vice President Mike Pence dressed in a satin neon blazer with a matching fur cape. Mitch McConnell in a posh Regency-era garment. ![]() The first RuPublicans post came on March 30, featuring Republican Sen.
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