AI Will Smith Eating Spaghetti

About

AI Will Smith Eating Spaghetti refers to a viral video created with ModelScope text2video depicting actor Will Smith eating spaghetti. The video spread on social media for its comical inability to accurately render Will Smith and the act of eating spaghetti, making for several clips of a disproportioned Smith stuffing wads of spaghetti into his mouth with his hands.

Origin

On March 23rd, 2023, Reddit^[1] user /u/chaindrop posted an AI-generated video based on the prompt "Will Smith eating spaghetti" to /r/stablediffusion. The clip gained over 6,500 points in one week.

On March 27th, Twitter^[2] user @MagusWazir reposted the clip (seen below), where it began going viral, gaining over 8,000 retweets and quote-tweets and 34,000 likes in four days. It also racked up over 4.9 million views in that time.

Spread

The clip spread widely on Twitter,^[3] where many commented that it was nightmarish. On March 30th, user @crawf34 reposted the video with the Skull Cow snowclone, gaining 20 retweets and 100 likes in one day (shown below, top). Twitter^[4] user @DJ_PeachCobbler posted the video with the born too late snowclone, gaining over 290 retweets and 2,800 likes in two days (shown below, bottom).

Others made parodies of the clip, tweaking the prompt to get similarly disturbing videos involving Will Smith and spaghetti. For example, Twitter^[5] user @ompuco made a video of "Will Smith eating a spaghetti monster," gaining over 100 retweets and 680 likes in two days (shown below, top). On March 30th, Twitter^[6] user @VFaVFaVFA posted a clip of spaghetti eating Will Smith, gaining over 130 likes in one day (shown below, bottom).

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