THOMAS AGATZ 2019

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TIK HOT VOL247

At ALRNCN, we don't have some sophisticated algorithm analyzing your tastes, your browsing habits, or how long you spend watching each video. I am ALRNCN's algorithm.

A flesh-and-blood human being who browses stuff on the Internet and decides what makes the cut and what doesn't. No artificial intelligence, no millions of data points to process and, probably, no particularly remarkable natural intelligence either.

And that might be precisely the secret to why this works.

Because I've always thought of myself as a pretty average guy, with pretty average tastes and a level of mediocrity perfectly in line with most of the population. And since mediocre people are the majority, whenever something makes me stop, look a little longer, or think, "this needs to be posted," there's a pretty good chance that a lot of you will react exactly the same way.

I don't need to know how long you watched the previous video, how old you are, or what time you usually come online. It's enough for me to think that if I like it, there's probably a whole bunch of degenerates out there who'll like it too.

And after more than 20 years of selecting content this way, the system doesn't seem to have worked out too badly.

So here's a new installment of Tik Hot, carefully selected by one of the most mediocre algorithms on the Internet.

Lucky for you, you probably are too.



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Backstage.

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FROSYA, THE GIRL WHO DOESN’T EXIST

At first glance, Frosya looks like just another content creator. An extraordinarily attractive young woman who shares videos of herself talking to the camera, little moments from her life, trips, everyday activities and, of course, a generous dose of sensuality.





In her bio, she describes herself as a model, singer, dancer, creative and photographer. She also offers access to more explicit content through her paid profiles. So far, nothing that thousands of other girls on Instagram aren’t already doing. The difference is that Frosya doesn’t exist: she is an identity created using artificial intelligence.

Her face, body, gestures and seemingly ordinary life have all been generated to build an attractive, approachable and sufficiently believable character. The goal is the same as that of many similar accounts created recently: turn her beauty into viral content, attract followers and direct as many users as possible toward her paywalled profiles.

However, nowhere on the profile does it say that the girl isn’t real or that her photos and videos were created using AI. Frosya presents herself as a flesh-and-blood person, complete with hobbies, a personality, daily activities and a life that supposedly continues when the camera stops recording.

Leaving aside whether this is a legitimate commercial fantasy or a deliberate attempt to mislead users—a debate we’ve already covered on other occasions and one that calls for a certain degree of caution—what really caught my attention is the incredible level of quality this kind of content has achieved.

I knew from the very first video that it had been generated using AI. However, I’ve been working with this kind of imagery and video on a daily basis for years. I know where to look, I recognize certain movements and I can still pick up on those little warning signs that tell me something isn’t quite right. But those alarms are getting quieter.





At this point, I’m fairly certain that if I haven’t already mistaken some AI-generated content for the real thing, I will sooner rather than later. And it won’t necessarily be because I wasn’t paying attention, but because telling the real from the artificial is starting to require more time than we normally spend looking at any single post.

Perhaps the real shift won’t happen when we can no longer distinguish a real person from an invented one, but when we simply stop caring. Frosya may not have a childhood, a passport or any memories, but she posts regularly, changes outfits, visits places and builds a biography in front of thousands of followers. With enough continuity, an artificial identity can eventually feel more familiar to us than many of the real people we follow.

And that raises a new question: how long does a fiction need before it becomes a character? If we spend years watching Frosya grow, change her style, fall in love, travel or even grow older, there will come a point when we’re no longer following a simple collection of images, but an invented life shared and remembered by real people.

What’s more, these girls aren’t designed simply to be beautiful. They can be modified according to the audience’s reaction: a different hairstyle if it generates more clicks, a new personality if it attracts more comments or a slightly different body if it increases subscriptions. We would no longer be looking at a model trying to appeal to her audience, but at a person gradually manufactured from the desires of those watching her.

Today, we know that Frosya doesn’t exist. The unsettling thought is that, before long, this may become the least important part of the entire story.



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Green light: full speed ahead.






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AMATEUR FLESH: KAWAIIMOMO7

On Fridays, I put a little more effort into searching for content because a week can’t end just any old way. It deserves a proper send-off, with something entertaining enough to leave a good taste in your mouth as you head into the weekend.

After digging around for quite a while, I think the photos and videos from kawaiimomo7 more than deliver. Homemade content, natural appeal and plenty of good reasons to spend a few minutes with her before officially bringing the week to a close.

I provide the material, and you decide how long you want to enjoy it.

Have a great weekend. On Monday, we’ll pick up exactly where we left off. Don’t let me down.



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Spending the summer with Sofía Vergara.

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BAMBI THE DESTROYER

Bambi the Destroyer begins like any ’80s fantasy movie pulled straight from the video store: a young woman accidentally travels through a vortex and lands in another dimension filled with strange creatures and dangerous monsters that seem to have spent their entire lives waiting for her to arrive.

From that moment on, our voluptuous heroine swaps her ’80s clothes for a skimpy warrior outfit, learns how to swing a sword, and eventually becomes a kind of female Conan, making her way through a fantasy world packed with mutants and that wonderful lack of self-consciousness that defined classic B-movies.





The series consists of 12 episodes lasting barely one or two minutes each. The story limps along, the narrative keeps tripping over itself, and the plot logic decided to travel through another vortex and never come back. But honestly, none of that really matters. The most interesting thing isn’t what the series tells us, but how it was created.

The images, characters, settings, dialogue, voices, music, and movement were all generated by combining different artificial intelligence systems. There are obviously many hours of work behind it, but the entire project was created by a single person giving instructions, selecting results, and fitting all the different pieces together.

And that’s where it’s worth stopping for a moment. Barely a decade ago, producing something like this would have required actors, cameras, costumes, sets, technicians, musicians, visual effects specialists, and several months of work. Today, one person can sit in front of a computer and request it using lines of text. Not design it, model it, animate it, and program it from scratch: simply ask for it.





The result is still far from perfect. Some shots don’t fit together, movements look strange, and continuity wanders in and out of the story whenever it feels like it. But there are also swords, monsters, impossible landscapes, and a flesh-baring ’80s warrior traveling through another universe. And all of it came out of a computer after someone figured out how to explain exactly what they wanted.

Bambi the Destroyer may not be the future of cinema or a cult classic, but it offers a small glimpse of how this new era could begin.

Below, you can watch all 12 episodes and visit the creator’s Instagram account to follow the project.





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Grandpa is blown away.

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THE INSTAGRAM OF THE DAY: LAVAXGRLL

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the law of attraction brought you here 🫶🏻



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It’s never too late to take an interest in the world of fashion.

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THE EROTIC ART OF EUGENIO SICOMORO

Eugenio Sicomoro is the artistic name of Bruno Brunetti, an Italian artist and illustrator born in Rome in 1952 who has spent practically his entire life with a pencil in his hand.

Throughout his career, he has worked in the world of comics and illustration for some of Europe's leading publishers, contributing to numerous publications and developing a particularly recognizable style when it comes to depicting the human figure.

But of all his work, there's one particular side that, for strictly cultural and completely selfless reasons, has brought us here: his erotic drawings.

Portraits and female nudes created mainly in pencil and charcoal, where Sicomoro plays with shadows, curves, and proportions to create sensual, voluptuous, and surprisingly realistic women.

In some of his works, the level of detail makes you think for a moment that you're looking at a black-and-white photograph, until you get closer and begin to notice the pencil strokes, the shading, and the texture of the paper.

Almost half a century of drawing, and he still finds plenty of good reasons to keep sharpening his pencil.





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Today's slow-mo.

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