When Diplo and The Strokes need a deepfake, they go to this guy

The Strokes look like they’re 20 years old again in their latest music video. That’d be impressive makeup work on a group of roughly 40-year-olds, but the band doesn’t appear in the music video at all: every one of their faces is a deepfake.

The deepfakes were created by Paul Shales, whose meme pages have blown up over the past year. Under the moniker The Fakening, Shales has put Sen. Bernie Sanders into a dance troupe, turned President Donald Trump into a young girl, and added Joe Rogan to Star Wars. More recently, he went viral after inserting Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Tesla CEO Elon Musk into an episode of Star Trek — a creation he called “an easy deepfake” after he got frustrated working on some harder projects.

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