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Feast Your Eyes On The Lovecraftian Nightmare Of This Nick Offerman/’Full House’ Mashup

Ever wanted to see Nick Offerman's face superimposed onto the cast of beloved '90s sitcom 'Full House'? Well, your dream has come true!

by Joseph Earp  8 August 2019
Nick Offerman -- Full House deepfake

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The world is full of terrifying, headline-generating shit right now — the rise of A.I.; the forthcoming environmental apocalypse; literally everything Scott Morrison says and/or does. But one horror that doesn’t quite court the same attention is the phenomenon of the deepfake.

A method of faking moving images, usually by superimposing one head onto another body, the deepfake holds profound implications for the future of politics and society at large. The better the technology gets, the harder it is to separate maliciously-constructed images, designed to slur public figures, from the real deal.

Imagine an altered video of Bernie Sanders hitting a child, or a digitally-manipulated Clinton conducting a ritualised handshake with Jeffrey Epstein, and you get a glimpse of the kind of existential horrors we will soon find ourselves inundated with.

Oh, but hey, at least in the meantime we have the joys of deepfaked videos featuring Nick Offerman’s head superimposed onto the cast of Full House!

Yep, deepfakes are still in their relative infancy, meaning that rather than politics-altering slurs, we get fun, mildly unsettling videos in which the moustachioed grump from Parks and Recreation has his mug plastered over the lead actors of a largely forgotten TV comedy.

The result is oddly beautiful: a hypnotic mash-up of jovial ’90s sitcom stylings with something much more insidious, as though you’re a lotta edibles deep, trying to control a high as it goes bad.

Even Offerman himself has gotten in on the fun, tweeting his thanks back to the author of the clip, one “Dr. Fakenstein”. According to Offerman, a man who has toured some of the greatest venues in the world, and starred in some of the defining sitcoms of our time, this clip is his “career peak”.

So yep, let’s all have a quick guffaw about this lighthearted distraction before our world is irreversibly changed for the worse, shall we?