Luigi Sells Seashells but Every Line is a Midjourney Prompt | Ren's Money Game
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- Finally a remastered music video of the Luigi Meme, with fresh AI images and HD satire.
I was playing with Midjourney to see how well AI can render artwork, and naturally, the first project I wanted to do with it was to give this Luigi Meme a polish. I do love late stage capitalism memes and this AI artwork is the future.
For the animation, I painted the Luigis in Art Studio Pro, then animated them in After Effects.
The music is from Ren's Money Game part 2. Give the full song a listen if you have a chance.
The images of Luigi becoming a ruthless dictator will forever be burned into my retinas
Yes
Well he's Italian so he might just be Mussolini
@@hockeymaskwhatever2750 mario and bennito mussolino both are in one famous music video.
The image of luigi in a green pope costume carries so much meaning idk why
@@hockeymaskwhatever2750 unironically I thought that it was trying to turn luigi into Mussolini, so Im not the only one who saw that
This is super impressive and is way better than the typical "each lyric is an ai art prompt", since you made sure shells appeared in images for lyrics that don't say shell and Luigi was further incorporated
I had wanted to animate this story for a while. I just knew it would be a lot of work to tell Luigi's whole story. Thankfully Midjourney helps makes the process of ideating super fast. I almost what to do another one.
@@LukaBelle *want
It's literally the same thing
@@beanbagburrito Confidently incorrect, I see.
@@zboy1775 no u
This is amazing and terrifying at the same time.
Luigi is scary !
It's like its cannon
why is this so underrated?
Underrated? I just finished making the video yesterday. But perhaps the Money Game song is pretty underrated still. I'm honestly just happy that you took the time to comment. Thanks Depressed Engineer !
Meme is already milked
@@legendary_dzik Well, let me just milk it some more.... *milk milk*
its underrated
@@LukaBelle nah man you have 150 subscribers but you should be hitting the k's
Seeing Luigi now in this video takes it on a new level
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These images are really impressive. They're very devoid of color aside from anything relating to Luigi, which has a such a contrasting bright green. Lines up with the story pretty well.
I tried to get more desaturated and realistic as the story went one. Luckily, Midjourney always associated Luigi with the same colour green. It's really interesting how that happened.
Fr each image becomes more dystopian
Really would be great was an actual animation
There's something to the weak morality of what Luigi's talking about with images generated by a controversial cold tool.
Yeah, I suppose I never thought of it like that.
Love this!!!
WAIT ITS THE MAN HIMSELF WHAT THE HECK
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Wait aren't you the guy who made this song including all you're other bangers?
Breh ren here causally in the comments like he didn't actually make this banger 😂❤️
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Wow, WOW. There's so much going on and so much more potential to be made! This was fantastic!
Yeah, I really like how the Luigi's imagination gets darker as the song goes on and the world goes to hell.
Luigi being the president is so god damn blursed. I love it.
Luigi looks like the onceler in his green suit lol
Ha! Yeah he does.
0:45 is when it gets real crazy JUST LIKE WALUIGI
"Whaaaaaaah" ~ the future ruler of the world
i love the concept of making music videos using ai, this is amazing
I've seen Ai music videos a few times since making this. It's a pretty legit way of getting images to music. I think I would animate the slide show a little more in the future. Anyway, thanks for watching !
Honestly the blurry and atmospheric feel of AI images fits perfectly for music videos
I honestly gotta say this the best quality I have EVER seen when it comes to this song. This is truly amazing... SOMEONE GET THIS MAN A JOB IN ANIMATION STAT!!!
ARE YOU LISTENING PIXAR !!!1!
Woah! Even tho I'm a sucker for AI I have to admit that most ai art post are just unoriginal cash grabs. However this is not it! The editing, the inclusion of luigi and shells instead of just punching in the lyrics to the prompt it's all dare I say... Inspired and creative!
Really good stuff m8, this is Absolutely underated hope to see more from you!
Subbed.
Woah, thanks ! Perhaps I should do another, but which song !? I'll have to think of a good song that tells a story. Cheers!
@@LukaBelle Do 'Welcome to the Internet' ;troll;
@@LukaBelle try the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny
@@rexyjp1237 Holy cow, that's a great suggestion !!
@@LukaBelle we are number 1
Omg the images of people obsessed with shells was really creepy.
For real !
I like how Luigi looks progressively less cartoony as the song goes on lol.
Great video!
Exactly ! The greed starts turning him human.
0:29 The seashell car and seashell bums look quite dope tho
I'd buy one, for sure.
1:09 this is proof that luigi created the world with a few grapes
I never thought I would see a Luigi branded gun
I’m kinda shocked that this meme lasted, Like a year, And this might be the best one I’ve seen yet
looks like something a genuine music video would use
Damn, that's high praise.
The Luigi logo looks pretty cool though.
For real. Midjourney can make logo's pretty easily. It's impressive.
it says Ŀ⩇ı
*"Lui co. - Making shells since 2022"*
I was gonna enjoy this no matter what. But the little touchs, shells and Luigi in alot of the photos, the little curtain pull and the Luigi's there just made this a must share. Cheers mate
Oh thanks ! Most people don't notice such things. You have a good eye for detail.
I love how the Luigi brand jumpsuit uses the U from the Wii U logo.
Seeing the seashell clothing is actually awesome.
The cop with the word "Luigi" on the back of his outfit made me became a falled egg drop test
I am impressed at how well these images (and animation) turned out.
Good job on this
Thanks Yoshibro !
the images for step 2 really just wanna make me remove my eyes and refresh my brain goddamn.
Well, we could all use a refresh every once in a while.
this is the most creative way I've seen someone make this type of video, congratulations
Bless you. You're too kind.
the meme is coming back
The meme will never die !
When Luigi decides to win by doing something
this got progressively more sinister looking and i love it
This feels like the trailer for a dystopian movie from the POV of the main bad guy and how he ruined the world
A little like the godfather or something. A movie about the decent into darkness. I'd watch it!
Literally just the oncler but with shells
To think if Nintendo didn't make the contingency of "Super Luigi Galaxy" including two Luigis, we wouldn't have this masterpiece
the “shells must sell” picture is literally jawdropping hoenstly
Why am I laughing at both the idea and images of Luigi Mario conquering the world and becoming a despot
Bcs its so far from what we have in the game it just becomes funny and scary at the same time.
AI ist Kunst. Durch die menschliche Nachbearbeitung erst Recht. Bravo!
Vielen Dank ! KI ist so ein mächtiges Werkzeug. Ich mache mir Sorgen, wie es die Künstler verändern wird. Vielleicht geht es in der Kunst bald darum, den Computer neu zu programmieren.
Tut mir leid, wenn mein Deutsch schlecht ist, ich habe einen Übersetzer benutzt. :P
I love how this shows the story of Luigi becoming a dictator rather than just some big-time capitalist
man those eyes though
It’s beautiful in a way
The best type of beautiful !
Future luigi telling modern luigi to do this because future Luigi's failed at selling sea shells
really impressive stuff! As someone else said, you really did a great work with Luigi being in some of the artworks and the shells. Plus the edits are gold. keep up the good stuff!
Thanks for saying so! I'll have to find another song to do. I just have to figure out which one.
Ruler of everything or Mr blue sky, I love both songs, although they don't have the radical monopolistic capitalism feeling like this one does
@@cailer28000 I know Mr Blue Sky got the Ai treatment - youtube keeps recommending it to me. Ruler of Everything might be a good one. I was also thinking maybe Rasputin, or the Jeffery Bezos song. I'll just have to listen to music and see what images come.
I really appreciate the recommendations. Thanks for taking the time.
Luigi turned into damn Oncer man.
This shows how much AI has grown
I know, right!?
Крутое видео! Мне нравится как автор не просто просил сделать слова из песни, например "морская раковина", или "рыба и часы", а постарался сделать так, чтобы картинка подходила по смыслу песни, в нужных местах он добавлял Луиджи. Класная работа была проведена! Мне понравилось)
Спасибо! Я определенно пытался показать историю о том, как Луиджи становится все более и более жадным. Было интересно представить его в окружении золота, пока мир горит. И ИИ тоже был полон сюрпризов.
His shock tho
For real, for real
Luigi is a great business man, also while watching this I could imagine someone doing this in talking points on jackbox
Luigi what have you done?
He must be stopped !!
@@LukaBelle
It’s already too little too late.
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Imagine the things this guy had to put in to get the pictures
“Luigi corporate building”
Now that ai covers are more prominent people need to make Luigi actually singing this
That's a good idea!
A celebrity translating fame and wealth that questionable business practices has granted them into a bid for the Presidency. Where have I heard THAT before?
these Ai-generated images give me internal and external Paranoia
Now this, this i will allow.
Nice. I'll keep it going.
Now this is how your meant to use AI for pictures.
Luigi had enough of being called green Mario
Luigi is like "Look at me, I'm the Mario now"
WOW This is insanely well made!
And now, I can genuinely see Luigi as a tyrannical leader.
Never trust Luigi with power. He has a tyrant inside him just wanting to get out.
"Hey Mario, i conquered the world!"
Those were some really surreal images
Yeah, Ai is weird.
The shell hats are actually dope... I want one
I want a Shell car, its cool.
We have gone too far with AI...
Yes, and it's only just started.
As soon as I saw the giant corporate GREEN LUIGI BUILDING I died laughing and put this video in my “best videos on the internet, ever” playlist
I love how you included Luigi in the images
Devious villain song
This just makes me hope there's a scene in the Mario Movie where Luigi talks with Mario about a scheme on how to make millions just by selling seashells
If this isn't the plot of the movie, I don't know what they're doing.
“That’s a shell Luigi, you didn’t make it”
@@yobob591 oh wow, that's a throwback
the images remember me more like the original video
more than luigi talkin about sea shells
Amazing xD why is this so cool
Luigi's got the swagger.
I don’t even know if this is intentional but as the video goes on Luigi becomes less and less recognizable.
Good catch! I started him off as pretty cartoonish, and then tried to get progressively more human. Then when it cuts back to the cartoons, you get a sense of how far it went off the rails.
@@LukaBelle yeah, by the end, he's basically just a green politician with a mustache, but the funny part is that you can still recognize him.
Holy shit, this is all A.I.? That’s fucking impressive.
And the algorithm is even better now. Crazy how fast it's advancing.
00:23 nightmare fuel
The Luigigun is something I never new I wanted.
this is art, actually. Very good art at that. Nicely done.
The AI art is absolutely beautiful. The only problems with the images when it was drawing humans and the monopoly case.
It did have trouble with humans - especially symmetry. They've fixed that recently and the humans look much better. Crazy how fast things change.
“Sell water to a fish, sell time to a clock” is such a fire line
the fact that luigi can now walk on water scares me
the dirty art style of the ai art really fits the song
0:49 this section is just perfect
This was so good
The song does slap, lol.
Bro the images in step 2 literally made me throw my phone across the room holy
Every frame it's a potentially a new wallpaper
Maybe some more than others
That got WAY better than I thought it would
this is trully facinating
Me explaining to my past self why i need to buy bitcoin
For real, lol.
We need a remake of this video
plot twist: after luigi become dictator, he immediately got burned to death as seen by few previous picture
I think this is the best iteration of both the “Luigi sea shells” meme and the “AI lyric images” meme. You mentioned not knowing other good songs for this, allow me to offer some suggestions.
Hanging Tree (from Hunger Games)
Non-Stop (from Hamilton)
Radioactive (by Imagine Dragons)
Dawson’s Christian (by Vic Tyler; a more obscure song, but would be 100% awesome to see)
Yo, these are top tier suggestions! Hanging Tree really paints a picture. I can image how that would look now. I also like how short it is. Thanks for taking the time to send those ideas my way. Much appreciated !
That was beautiful
Lyrics for those who asked:
She sells seashells on a seashore
But the value of these shells will fall
Due to the laws of supply and demand
No one wants to buy shells 'cause there's loads on the sand
Step one: you must create a sense of scarcity
Shells will sell much better if the people think they're rare, you see
Bare with me, take as many shells as you can find and hide 'em on an island
Stockpile 'em high until they’re rarer than a diamond
Step two: you gotta make the people think that they want 'em
Really want 'em, really fuckin' want 'em, hit 'em like Bronson
Influencers, product placement, featured prime time entertainment
If you haven't got a shell, then you're just a fucking waste, man
Three: it's monopoly, invest inside some property
Start a corporation, make a logo, do it properly
"Shells must sell", that will be your new philosophy
Swallow all your morals, they're a poor man's quality
Four: expand, expand, expand
Clear forest, make land, fresh blood on hands
Five: why just shells? Why limit yourself?
She sells seashells, sell oil as well
Six: guns, sell stocks, sell diamonds, sell rocks
Sell water to a fish, sell the time to a clock
Seven: press on the gas, take your foot off the brakes
Then run to be the president of the United States
Eight: big smile mate, big wave, that's great
Now the truth is overrated, tell lies out the gate
Nine: Polarise the people, controversy is the game
It don't matter if they hate you if they all say your name
Ten: the world is yours, step out on a stage to a round of applause
You're a liar, a cheat, a devil, a whore, and you sell seashells on the seashore
Epic! Hopefully u continue doing these prompt vids, u're great
Dam! This gave me goosebumps!
Ya got R.L. Stined !
This just gives this meme a dark story
What a nightmare fuel
This was absoluetly incredible
you deserve more subscribers
0:23 Why did it have to give the shells teeth.
Just why.
Lol, Right !? I think they fixed these things in the new algorithm, but yeah, those shots are freaky. :P
It does fit with the dystopian future tho
@@xxsegaxx Doesn't mean it's not disturbing as hell though.
The entire video is really good, but 0:24 is just unforgivably horrifying.
So in other words, great job 👍
Ad for seashell tooth implants, maybe
Art
you sell sea shells in the sea shore
is this song supposed to pump me up?
If it works, it works
@@LukaBelle that bodes well for my moral future 😬
New title: How to be a proffesional kaizo maker in mario maker 2
Why do I want to own that shell car