People are just realising bloke from weird bar dance video isn't actually real

You may be astonished to learn that the video of a dancing man whose head looks like a thumb protruding from his neck is not actually real.

Do please try to contain your amazement at this development, which is linked to the social media account of a supposed individual named 'Benjamin Stachio' that appeared just a few days ago and has already gained over 90,000 followers.

'Benjamin's' most popular video is of himself depicted dancing in a bar which has been viewed millions of times and gained thousands of comments, but as you can probably tell it's an AI fake.

The account is posting a series of AI videos showing this impossibly-proportioned character who looks like a sentient thumb tried to cosplay Dudley from Street Fighter dancing, meeting people and putting on a suit jacket.

The videos are accompanied by simplistic captions which don't really say anything at all and it looks like it's part of an increasing trend of setting up accounts and flooding the internet with AI slop to gain followers.

It's a bit like the fake influencer Jean Philanthrope, another weird looking AI creation that's gained millions of views and thousands of followers and has since started trying to sell them cryptocurrency.

The latest AI-based money scheme appears to be creating these lurid and overblown characters, then setting up 'meme-coin' cryptocurrencies based on them and flogging it to the followers.

Anyone daft enough to buy this bunkum ends up trading real money for fake money in the hopes of selling it to the next sucker before interest dries up and some poor fool is left holding the worthless meme-coin.

Benjamin Stachio's profile says it has 'no crypto affiliation yet', so if you're someone looking to prove the saying that a fool and his money are soon parted you'll need to wait or find another AI influencer.

Probably the best known example of a meme-coin is Dogecoin, the cryptocurrency based on a meme of a dog, while various celebrities have tried launching versions of their own.

Hailey Welch, the woman who gained some viral fame for saying 'hawk tuah', dropped off the internet after the backlash to her own version of this.

According to Coinbase, after Jean Philanthrope launched the JEANPHIL cryptocurrency it reached a high value point of $0.02845 before losing 99 percent of its value.

Let's hope you didn't put your money towards it.

There appears to be a trend of making these fake AI accounts to direct people towards somewhere they can put actual money into, like the fake influencer who pretended she was working in Australia.

It turns out she was completely AI generated and was trying to funnel followers towards a site where subscribers could pay for AI pornography.