I swear to god this Haitian pet eating thing is all fucking AI. Started by AI, propagated by AI and simply picked up by useful idiots on the fringe of the political hemisphere. On a cerebral level, it has all the hallmarks of modern AI. Like... I'm pretty convinced this is the first real mainstream unleashing of AI to create not pictures or videos or whatever... but a narrative across multiple platforms that has reached widespread awareness in the current political meta.
Someone switched it on using bot accounts on /pol/, FB, X, Truth Social, GAB, TikTok, ect and just let it do it's thing off of a prompt.
Vaguely realistic if you squint hard enough and narrow your vision down to a specific slit, but a few important details are still inhumanly wrong. And because there's no harm for the weirdos on the Right to promote it, they just picked it up and ran with it.
I mean... seriously. Show this picture to literally ANYONE 8-10 years ago and say "This is a topical, political message from a former president looking to get re-elected that speaks to a specific portion of his base" and after they look at you thoroughly confused, you'll be slapped for being a shitty Youtube prank creator.
I feel like the entire world is being Trolled by basement skriptkiddies and fringe Rights are too stupid to care.