Funniest Threat of the Year: When the Emperor from the Jumong Series Has Zero Problems!
If the line between the real and the unreal completely fades, this reference will also die, and no meme will remain to laugh at. In a world where everything is recreated, there is a world without an original.
Ambassador Arjan; Nehal Mousavi - Farsi-language social networks have been hosting strange guests for a few days now. The lasting sequences of Iranian series are recreated with the faces and clothes of the characters of Jumong series and Korean warriors, with the same pauses, the same serious looks and the same familiar tone.
A Spanish-speaking singer, whose video went viral, suddenly reproduces in the form of dozens of other people, from Javad Khatani to ... we laugh, repost and say "Wow!". But a laugh that has a short pause at the end, a laugh that has sand on shoes.
These videos are something from our old jokes, that is, memes, imitations, and parodies. What required a studio and budget yesterday is now in the hands of a teenager with a phone. People's creativity is directly formed by television and capital, and in this sense, it is democratic. Denying this attraction is intellectual self-deception.
Until recently, our eyes had a refuge: the sixth finger, lips that did not match the voice, skin that was too smooth and...
These errors encourage us that the line between real and fake is still visible. That refuge is gone now that movement and tone and even the flutter of an eyelid are so convincingly simulated. The scariest part isn't the videos themselves, it's that we can no longer rely on our visual instincts.
That viral sequence is the result of acting, directing and montage genius. The pause before the famous sentence was made by a human, not an algorithm.
The AI tool is fed a multitude of faces and sounds and games, without informing or paying anything to their owners.
In the world, this issue has passed the level of theoretical discussion. After the release of the second version of the "Sura" video maker tool in the fall of 2025, a wave of fake videos of deceased faces started.
Robin Williams' family and representatives of Martin Luther King Jr.'s estate protested, and apparently the production company was forced to impose restrictions. Just today, the daughter of Hossein Erfani and Shahla Nazerian, who survived, strongly opposed the restoration of her parents' voice.
When even the dead cannot defend their face, the question is who owns a face or a voice.
The technology that today brings Jumong to the stage of an Iranian series, tomorrow can impersonate a manager in a video call.
In 2024, an employee of a company in Hong Kong transferred about twenty-five million dollars after making a video call with fake "colleagues", according to media reports.
At the same level of Iran and the region, during the 12-day war of July 1404, a flood of fake videos about the destruction and downing of fighters were circulated and viewed millions of times, to the point that the fact-checkers of the international media had to deny them every day.
A society that does not fully trust the official media and is hungry for rumors is the best ground for planting such fakes.
"Liar advantage" is the term used by researchers for a situation where the presence of forgery casts doubt on any real evidence.
When everything can be fabricated, any official or any accused can call a real video against him "AI made".
The danger is not only to believe a lie. The danger is that we get tired of believing the truth.
The laughter of these videos comes from the fact that we know the original. Jumong in the form of an Iranian series is funny because we have the main sequence in our memory. That is, his comedy is based on "reality".
If the border between real and unreal is completely blurred, this reference will also die and there will be no meme left to laugh at. A world where everything is a remake is a world without originals, and a joke without originality is like a mirror with nothing facing it.
So what to do? This technology cannot be brought back, nor does it deserve to be blamed entirely. What remains is a new literacy:
For now, we should get used to asking "where did it come from, who published it and who benefits?" instead of "I saw it, so I believe it".
The media should also make clear labeling a professional practice, and lawmakers should give a clear right to face and voice.
Until that day, you can laugh at these videos, but with your eyes open. Laughter that comes with consciousness. But what really happens next?! It is an essential and scary question.