Harry Potter by Balenciaga
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites it as the original of the Balenciaga AI meme family and as an early viral AI mashup moment.
What it is
A short AI-generated parody video that imagines Harry Potter as a Balenciaga fashion campaign, made with Midjourney, ChatGPT and Eleven Labs voices. It became a viral meme.
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What Hacker News said
Cites rngname22 · 2023-07 · on “Linux by Balenciaga”
The original in this family of memes/content: [this video] The channel has some of the best faceswapped AI video.
Cites adolph · 2025-06 · on “A Complete Guide to Meta Prompting”
One of the original AI-whoah moments was that italian fashion/harry potter mashup [0]. Some time after it came a "making of" video which outlined how they used ChatGPT to prompt Midjourney to create the images [1]. To me, this established using generative systems to create prompts for other generative as an effective pattern for using such systems. 0. [this video] 1. [LINK]