Dior's animated hands get Lessons in Internet Culture's scrutiny
A commentary video questions the luxury house's holiday animation, contrasting its movements with Prada's hand-drawn campaign.
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Dior Animation Is AI Slop
Warped fingers and unusually moving bees supplied Lessons in Internet Culture with its most-watched new upload, bringing the Dior commentary close to a million views. Across six uploads, AI was the week's recurring subject: how it looks, what it costs and what happens to the companies building it.
"Dior Animation Is AI Slop" examines excerpts from the fashion house's Christmas advertisement, "Christian Dior's Night in Colour". The narrator points to hands behind a character's back, bee movements and mouth synchronisation as signs of possible AI assistance. Those are the video's conclusions, not confirmation of how the advertisement was made.
The contrast is unusually specific: Prada's "Drawing Prada: Animated by Hand" becomes the counterexample, before the commentary examines Dior's behind-the-scenes promotional footage. Viewers identifying themselves as animators discuss whether human-drawn key poses could have been combined with AI-generated in-between movements. Smear frames, the deliberately distorted drawings used to convey fast motion, also come under discussion.
"Sam Altman Hates Gamers", framed around RAM and AI, drew almost as many views as the Dior upload. The strongest momentum now belongs to "NVIDIA Is In Trouble", followed by "Did The AI Bubble Burst?", keeping the channel's attention on technology beyond the animation debate.
The channel added about 2,000 subscribers over the week, while daily viewing is roughly half again its usual level. Nearby commentary channels WILDCAT Reacts and Cam2r Reacts are also seeing busier-than-usual days; Clooless Reacts and Enyu Reacts are quieter. For Lessons in Internet Culture, the week's distinctive detail remains a luxury advertisement being inspected finger by finger.
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I know a bit about animation and that is NOT how a smear frame works or looks.
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The videos drawing views on Lessons in Internet Culture right now
- Channel
- Lessons in Internet Culture
- Subscribers
- 229,000 ▲ 2,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 3,528,685
- Videos published this week
- 6
- Video published
- November 6, 2026
- Video views so far
- 997,192
- Views on its first day
- 832,781
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