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Before AI We Had Zach King

This image is a still frame taken from a viral visual trick video by internet personality Zach King. In the frame, Zach King, wearing a backwards baseball cap and casual clothing, is crouching while appearing to hold a large, bright, perfectly circular glowing white object that looks identical to the moon, creating a convincing forced perspective or edited illusion. Overlaid text on the image reads 'Before Ai we had Zach king', making the joke that Zach King's long history of creating high-quality, seemingly magical visual effects with practical tricks and video editing predated the widespread availability of generative AI that can now create similar fake visuals easily.
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Before Ai we had Zach king

Overview

This image is a still frame taken from a viral visual trick video by internet personality Zach King. In the frame, Zach King, wearing a backwards baseball cap and casual clothing, is crouching while appearing to hold a large, bright, perfectly circular glowing white object that looks identical to the moon, creating a convincing forced perspective or edited illusion. Overlaid text on the image reads 'Before Ai we had Zach king', making the joke that Zach King's long history of creating high-quality, seemingly magical visual effects with practical tricks and video editing predated the widespread availability of generative AI that can now create similar fake visuals easily.

Origin notes

As specified in the provided source information, this meme was shared on the Reddit r/Meme community. It repurposes a clip from one of Zach King's widely circulated original illusion videos, adding a text overlay to draw a humorous comparison between Zach King's pre-AI creative visual trick work and modern generative AI tools that are commonly used to create altered or fake visuals in current internet culture.

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