I've done a couple of posts this week on these AI-generated videos. The first one was brought to my attention by the liberal X account Secular Talk, which posted it without comment. It showed Americans working in garment factories and assembling iPhones. The thing that stuck out the most was that everyone was overweight, by a lot. My guess is that the implicit message was that it should have been Chinese child slave labor doing those jobs, not Americans. Are these videos coming from China?
As I reported last time, the video ended with rusted Tesla, Nike, and Apple signs collapsing. I just saw a new one Saturday that added Nvidia to the scrap pile, under the banner, "Make America Rich Again."
Not only are they fat, they have bags of snacks, buckets of fried chicken, and bottles of Coke on their workstations. The first dude, working for Nike under the "Make America Strong Again" banner, actually pulls out a hamburger from nowhere and takes a bite while he's sewing sneakers.
Chinese people are creating AI generated videos mocking Americans because of the tariff war😭 pic.twitter.com/hr3q3NtszE
— kira 👾 (@kirawontmiss) April 10, 2025
Seriously, check out how fat everyone is. They're certainly not starving. I especially like the really overweight dude in the Tesla USA shirt and shorts holding a drill … and there appears to be a photo of a Big Mac on the car door with the word "delicious" underneath. I can't quite figure that out.
The handle of the dude who posted it to TikTok is Jambo_AI, although his name is made up of Chinese characters I can't read. So, yeah, the Chinese are apparently trolling us, thinking that Americans will work in factories.
A professor posted the other day, "Incredible that Trump thinks Americans want to work in factories."
Surprise … a lot of Americans do work in factories. Are the Chinese trying to claim that slave labor is their department, and this is what their factories look like?
I found a good cartoon the other day: the first panel showed a kid with no job wearing $150 sneakers, while the second showed a woman working at a sewing machine with no shoes.
Another professor appeared on "The View" to talk with the ladies about tariffs and went full-in on the "who will pick the cotton?" angle.
Scott Galloway Argues Against Bringing Manufacturing Jobs Back to the U.S. 🤔
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) April 11, 2025
“We have outsourced low wage jobs overseas such that we can create more profits, more investments and create higher wage jobs” pic.twitter.com/mM4N4ziCqa
Never thought this would become the Democrat Party platform but here we are. They’re basically just “anything Trump wants we want the opposite.”
— Daily Trite 🇺🇸 (@realDailyTrite) April 11, 2025
People like him is exactly why this country is in debt
— Alpha-Bravo (@aburk203) April 11, 2025
China now has some of the most advanced automation and robotic manufacturing plants in the world. They are able to run 24/7 with the lights off at night time. It’s not all about cheap labour anymore.
— Martin 🧭 (@Martinoleary) April 12, 2025
It's incredible how many people still don't understand how detrimental outsourcing manufacturing is to our country's economy, security, and future.
— Jon Werthen (@jonwerthen) April 11, 2025
My previous gig was as an editor at a major accounting and auditing firm, and they tried to outsource that to Bangalore. Sending complex training materials to people whose second language is English and having them proofread it.
This guy has great takes. Definitely listen to his advice. https://t.co/qfz92CMF7b
— Goose (@goossen_tim) April 11, 2025
@nyuniversity Faculty.
— Gouthum “Karate” Karadi | The philosophy of money (@cryptodiaries) April 12, 2025
‘Nuff said
Once we built cars in Detroit. pic.twitter.com/KFoTMwC5ux
— James Gerbino (@WereChihuahua) April 12, 2025
A lot of cities and towns that sprang up around factories would probably be very happy for those jobs to come back to America. My hometown had a General Electric plant where they used to make locomotives. A lot of people made their living there.
As the factories have closed down in my hometown, they have not been replaced by higher wage jobs. They have been replaced by explosion in demand at our local food bank and at our drug treatment facilities.
— bcmd 🦬🍇🐗 (@CotnerMD) April 12, 2025
I'm no expert on tariffs, but I do think Trump is playing some 4-D chess — announcing reciprocal tariffs on every country in the world, then taking a 90-pause while more than 75 nations come to the White House to negotiate.
The Chinese think we're all really that fat? Or is that just part of the trolling?
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