Over at Pharyngula, special jackbooted operative raven floated a dangerous idea: [pha]
I suppose Tucker Carlson wants one of the M&Ms to wave a Swastika flag around or carry an AR 15 rifle or something. The right wingnut patriot M&M.
Naturally, I ran (did not walk) (ok, alt-tabbed) over to Midjourney, sent it up a normal-ish picture of M&Ms characters and asked for “right-wing m&ms characters” and watched and waited.
Midjourney AI and mjr “right wing M&Ms characters”
The one on the right appears to be packing a bottle of mezcal, rather than an AR-15. These are the nut-centered fascist police candies that melt in your hand and your mouth.
The AI’s second effort was a bit threatening:
Midjourney AI and mjr: “right wing M&M candies characters”
Uh, watch there you’re pointing that thing!
Oh no, he’s pointing that thing just right, no worries…
They all look like the characters I saw in a very old
GangstabixWeetabix carton ad.Sorry, that’s CARTOON ad. (Note to self: rely on spellcheck less.)
These are hilarious. Somehow, the odd numbers of fingers and the strange legs and arms really enhance these characters.
What sort of bullets would a gun that kills candy characters shoot? Saliva?
The headgear is interesting. In both photos, group conformity seems to be important. In the top one, are those Greek fisherman caps? And in the second, a cross between pirate hats and Uncle Sam’s red white and blue top hat.
I immediately spotted where the gun was pointing in the second image, and almost as quickly decided that it was about right since it’s my understanding that most gun nuts don’t really pay much attention to firearm safety.
I remember a video of the McCloskys “defending their home” during a protest in St. Louis after the murder of George Floyd. (The protesters were just passing by on their way to the mayor’s house, so the McCloskys had no involvement until they involved themselves.) The husband had a rifle that he wasn’t pointing at any persons and seemed to have his trigger finger outside the trigger guard, so I guess he knew something about what he was doing; but the wife, who was clearly terrified by all those people with darker complexions all in the same place, was waving a pistol around wildly with her finger on the trigger. Even I know better than that, and I’ve never owned a gun or had any firearm training after Air Force basic training in the ’60s.
Well, as least we’ve moved on from too many fingers… but, one trouser-leg rolled up? (in image 1 obviously, 2nd image not enough legs…) How did this trigger a reference to the Freemasons?
The wrong number of fingers helps explain why conservative math is so wrong.
These are great examples of a principal of art and design.
A cartoon image with obvious wrong anatomy is perfectly acceptable, ( some may even find it cute) but putting deformed or impossible anatomy in realistic images generates strong uncanny valley negative reactions.
Image 2 reminds me of the Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything. I do not recommend asking google about this brain worm song from Veggietales, if you don’t know about it already.
@ astringer
Well Freemasons are well right of centre . . .
@ Tabby Lavalamp
Boom Boom!
The green M&M seems to have persistent problems with it’s uniform, maybe that’s why so much of the Right hate Green policies despite the policies making economic sense.
In the first image, the way they are all lumpy and bumpy makes me think there is some California Raisins influence.
Off-topic:
Iron sword — almost 9 feet long — unearthed at 1,700-year-old burial mound in Japan
It would be an effort just to draw that sword.
I want to see “left wing avenger M&M candy character with nine foot sword.”
Meanwhile, at the old place.
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This is seriously disturbing.
Also, this…
oh hey … how bout antifa m&ms
@Great American Satan – I asked it for BLM M&Ms and it gave me armed angry black M&Ms and I stopped there.