A quick post today, about this:

I bought this in Australia, specifically at the toy shop in Charlestown Square, although Big W had them as well. I immediately recognized them as AI art, but since I’m a sucker for weird trading cards I had to buy them to see if they were more than just links to online videos…

The above are the six cards in my pack. They’re not high quality: printed on thin flimsy cardboard with generic backs. The girls are all AI art, and you can see I got five different ones from two ‘groups’. Here’s the leaflet showing all 60 cards:

The QR code on each card links to a short YouTube video showing the girl on the card dancing to what I assume is an AI generated tune. While the AI is competent (the girls don’t have 8 fingers or floating hair) the fashion and music resembles what someone (or something) that didn’t know much about K-Pop thinks it would be like, rather than the groups/songs topping charts worldwide today.

Here’s two examples from my cards. Scan these with your phone camera to watch the videos:

And that’s the entire product! Kristin thinks the idea would be for the viewer to learn the dance moves, perform them themselves and then upload them to the internet but I’ll go out on a limb and say no one is going to do that. This is nothing more than a pack of links to 15 second YouTube videos. For which I paid A$10 (about $7)!

I’m sure that everyone who purchased these immediately realized how low quality and transparently useless they are and didn’t buy a second pack. It seems the company that released them learned this quickly since it was rereleased packaged with candy…

…And boxes are now available at clearance prices on several UK/EU stores!

These are trash, and I question whether the fun of creating this blog post even warranted their purchase. I’ll flip them for a handsome profit to Bernard and then forget about them forever!