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# Indeed.
I'm trying to see through the eye of the beholders who find it funny. Analysing humour is always fatal, but I feel that there's something I'm missing here and I really want to know what it is.
(I helped save b3ta! The Hedgehog From Hell, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 21:29, archived)
# I fear your quest for enlightenment will not end well.
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 21:31, archived)
# Ach, it never usually does.
I've done plenty of faceswaps myself, I'm not trying to come across all holier-than-thou here. It's just that I think of them as a means to an end: for me a faceswap is a way of telling a joke, and not an actual joke in and of itself.
(I helped save b3ta! The Hedgehog From Hell, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 21:37, archived)
# i post crap fish.
i don't allow myself delusions of grandeur.
at least, not with my "art".
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey you utter fucking chutney, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 21:40, archived)
# Don't say all of this to the wrong people
Some of them are armed.

(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 21:36, archived)
# See, now this amuses me, and I can't explain why.
Which makes it difficult for me to expect anyone else to explain why they find faceswaps funny.
(I helped save b3ta! The Hedgehog From Hell, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 21:38, archived)
# It's because I'm an unappreciated genius
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 21:41, archived)
# i appreciate you
*panders*
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey you utter fucking chutney, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 21:42, archived)
# Thank you :)
I appreciate pandering

(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 21:45, archived)
# this leaves my sex glands in a cold fugue
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey you utter fucking chutney, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 21:48, archived)
# This might warm them up a bit


SO FUCKING FIT
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 21:51, archived)
# he's got less floppy bits than i have
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey you utter fucking chutney, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 22:06, archived)
# That's Kirsten Dunst!
She's not meant to have floppy bits.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 22:11, archived)
# nor am i
but i have
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey you utter fucking chutney, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 22:13, archived)
# I bet your beard isn't as natty as hers though
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 22:26, archived)
# not quite
but i could do with some nair
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey you utter fucking chutney, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 22:39, archived)
# I know not of this "nair" of which you speak
One assumes it is related to Veet. I think it would take more than Veet to clear Kirsten's beard.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 22:43, archived)
# *puts a tenner on "almost"*
(I helped save b3ta! Shlvng, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 22:39, archived)
# Haha
A man who likes to live dangerously.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 22:44, archived)
# personally, I don`t want you to "get" it
I rather enjoy watching you moaning about it all time :D
(I helped save b3ta! Ham o' Shatner citation needed, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 21:42, archived)
# heh, and there I was trying to pose it as a discussion point rather than a generic moan.
(I helped save b3ta! The Hedgehog From Hell, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 21:44, archived)
# Come on,
WHY IS IT FUNNY?
TELL ME NOW, YOU FUCK!
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 21:43, archived)
# If you have to ask
You'll never know
(I helped save b3ta! Shlvng, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 21:44, archived)
# Too much like trying to look through the eyes of a serial killer.
You'll be staring at famous pictures and thinking about where Flan's face would be best placed before the week is out.
Let it go, Indiana.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Howdy, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 21:41, archived)
# we called the dog indiana
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey you utter fucking chutney, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 21:50, archived)
# Monkey brains!
Delicious.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Howdy, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 21:53, archived)
# tasty shit, man
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey you utter fucking chutney, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 22:07, archived)
# a faceswap tends to walk a very fine line
between funny and simply a technical achievement

If it makes you laugh you're quids in, if it makes you go "well done, good use of photoshop/after effects/whatever tool you followed a tutorial for" then it probably shouldn't be posted here, but on a photoshop/after effects/whatever forum instead.

Same applies to furry/photo/straight artwork posts (in my utterly pointless opinion)
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 21:43, archived)
# Well, yeah.
I guess the other point is: faceswaps are staggeringly easy to do. Cut out one person's face, paste it onto another person's head, blend the edges. You've got a convincing faceswap in about 30 seconds.
(I helped save b3ta! The Hedgehog From Hell, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 21:47, archived)
# Fuck it, if you can't beat them...
www.b3ta.com/questions/imagechallenge/post1581650
(I helped save b3ta! The Hedgehog From Hell, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 21:49, archived)
# That is such a terrible idea
We'd get about 5,000 entries as everyone rushes to repost their reams of shops of someone's face on someone else's face, and then I wouldn't win. Much like every week except for the face on face business. Even though I came up with gems like this:



Life is hard.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 21:53, archived)
# I'd vote for this.
But then, I like birds. That's probably why I like these a lot more than human-to-human faceswaps.
(I helped save b3ta! The Hedgehog From Hell, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 21:56, archived)
#
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 21:58, archived)
# Ahaha
I watched the Extras with him in it yesterday.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 22:02, archived)
# A friend of mine once suggested I sell them as postcards
Alas, since I've stolen every photo without credit, I suspect this wouldn't be entirely legal. Still, I enjoy them.

(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 22:01, archived)
# They all look so old, they're probably well out of copyright.
They'd also be good as greeting cards.
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 22:07, archived)
# Nah
The soliders are well out of copyright - I think the newest is from 1905 or so (except the shot from "The Wind that Shook the Barley") - but the birds are all recent shots taken down from Flickr, and I've never even tracked what licenses they're under. I doubt they're under the "Photoshop and sell!" license, though...



On the other hand, if I see any other cunt selling these I am going to get the law on them SO HARD. Maybe I should start watermarking stuff.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 22:10, archived)