AI angel - virtual character

So I have no idea how this ended up in my youtube feed, but none-the-less it caught my eye.  So the title is "AI sees humans for the first time", followed by "AI sees humans for the second time".

https://youtu.be/WyFwjHQhlgo

https://youtu.be/GtvivssqLhE

Now I have 2 reactions right away:
1. It's not AI, it's someone using some sort of motion capture system to effectively create a digital puppet.  It's not facerig because this has a very custom background and the movement are far more advanced.
2. That voice sounds... somewhat authentic, but there's something not quite right about it.  Could be a girl, could be a guy doing a voice.

Whoever it is, they certainly have an entertaining personality.

Did some digging, if you go back in the channel there's a bunch of videos of some guy named rogue shadow who apparently spends a lot of time in VR, even has one where he's showing a virtual night club he worked on in unity.  He has one video just interviewing other users on VR chat (a program where you can change your character and just walk around and talk to other people around the world).  He asks them a simple question, why do you come here?  Most just want a general escape from their real life, a few admit they do it to escape gender dysphoria.  He has one video that made a news story where one user started to have a seizure as you saw him shake on the floor virtually, and most of the other users were generally concerned but had no way to help him until he could start to speak again.

Anyway, whoever this is started a twitch channel where they game (and perhaps do more omegle video chats again).  They just started a patreon page like 2 weeks ago and they already have $730/month in supporters.  I wouldn't be surprised if this becomes a career.

deepfakes getting popular?

If you search youtube, there are more of them coming out.  I don't know the documentation is clear enough for me to fully understand how to do it (believe me, if nothing else I would love to put my own face on female bodies).  Anyway there's a relatively new channel called "the fakening" and he's got a couple good ones:

The first one is Joe Rogan on the body of a swimsuit model (I'm guessing some sort of Miss universe?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSOVip9L16A

The second is Pete Davidson's face on ariana grande (which is bizarre since they dated)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXhPjO8M6oE

foo fighters - drag music videos

I'm sure we've all seen these but wanted to bring them up.  The band member taylor hawkins seemed to play the girl in their early days.  Currently he sports a beard so that doesn't really work well, but back 20 years ago he made quite the attractive looking woman.  Here is he as himself with Dave:


Notice in the "everlong" video, both in photos and in the music videos, he's pretty passable.  In fact in my youth not really paying attention to things, I had no idea at first that it was one of his band members.



In the "learn to fly" video, he makes quite the hot stewardess.  He's even rocking some nice cleavage.

drag for a day? Or forever?

There are lots of videos where guys try being women for the first time.  This guy tried drag for the first time last Halloween:

But then shortly after, he records another video of "drag for a day" where he dresses up after Halloween and this dude passes way too well.  Like he looks better than most real women do, and his voice is pretty androgynous that he doesn't even have to try to sound female.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8NZX0t_EEY

I may follow his channel, see where it goes.  It looks like he's slowly trying to learn makeup and perhaps become the african version of James Charles.  In general I love seeing non-transgender guys try to be women.

follow friday - rinsenpai

Ok I stumbled on this dude's channel.  I say dude because he refers to himself as male, but genderfluid (even though nearly every video is him as female, at least by the end of the video).

If you've followed the transgender community long enough, at some point you'll hear someone say "It's so easy for asian men to become women", which is probably true for many of them but not all.  Anyway, I think this one is so fucking cute and adorable, it's shocking when you hear him talk in his male voice.  I especially like him because he has such great outfits, including a lot of cosplay.  Anyway check out his channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/DanaConvention/videos

morning radio - man's girl voice

So this is a morning show in chicago called sherman and tingle.  They've moved radio stations a few times, but that seems to be the new norm since radio seems to be broke.  Anyway, the guy named tingle is pretty talented as you can see by this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA6-UE3WWZY&feature=youtu.be&t=23

Now I say talented because I think manly dudes like that who can turn their female voice on and off like a light switch are amazing.  Besides the old black woman voice he does (which he calls clarissa jenkins), he also does a 20-something sultry young female voice that's amazing, as you can hear by this clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbrZv9nAMLU&feature=youtu.be&t=344

Anyway, if you want to hear more of clarissa jenkins there's a bunch of prank calls you can find on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuKZqjA0R-o

james charles - drag

Although he does tons of makeup tutorials (some with wig and female attire), this is the first video I was truly impressed at what a dramatic transformation he went through (he even comments at the end about how he feels like a woman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuAatHCEqUU