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Harry Potter by Balenciaga

Harry Potter by Balenciaga

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0 HN recommenders · discussed 2023–2025
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About this video

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.

Why it appears in the archive

HN cites it as the original of the Balenciaga AI meme family and as an early viral AI mashup moment.

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From the Hacker News discussion

rngname22 · 2023-07 · reference

The original in this family of memes/content: [VIDEO] The channel has some of the best faceswapped AI video.

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adolph · 2025-06 · reference

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. [VIDEO] 1. [LINK]

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threatofrain · 2023-04 · joke

The two videos that started the meme: [VIDEO] [LINK] > Master has presented Dobby with Balenciaga. Dobby is... free.

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HopenHeyHi · 2023-04 · joke

> Isn’t it sad that the first $500b+ company from Europe is a peddler of vanity and overpriced luxury items? French top 4 are: - lvmh $496b - Loreal $256b - Hermes $232b - Dior $172b [LINK] #9 is EssilorLuxottica (sunglasses), and #11 is a clothing brand. If this sort of Fashion ever goes out of style does that whole country go bankrupt? I fear what the unstoppable and inevitable ascendance of Balenciaga might do to the French. [VIDEO]

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