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“giving AI 5 tries to recreate a backflip”
@joshkreugz · 77K followers
×5its author's usual
This creator normally gets 53K views. This one got 237K. That gap — not the raw number — is what makes the format worth copying.
A person attempts a backflip on a scooter in a skatepark, with each subsequent attempt featuring increasingly absurd and humorous AI-generated visual effects, culminating in a Michael Jackson impersonator appearing.
Open original ↗237K
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2.7%
Engagement
85/100
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Why it worked
The video works due to its humorous and unexpected AI-generated visual effects, which create a strong curiosity gap and provide comedic relief. The progressively outlandish attempts keep viewers engaged to see what absurd outcome AI will generate next. It leverages the current popularity of AI and visual effects in a lighthearted, entertaining way.
Highly entertaining due to unexpected AI effectsGood use of text overlays for clarity and humorEngaging progression of absurdityRelatable concept of AI attempts
humorAI experimentationskateboarding/scootering
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