AI Gaming refers to a series of videos that use AI-generated voices for real-life or fictional characters in order to simulate them on various topics, most often either playing video games or doing something game-related for comedy. The release of various software like 15.ai, ElevenLabs, and RVC early on in The New '20s has led to many people experimenting to see what they can do with it.
After a video
of five U.S. presidents playing Halo 3 was posted on TikTok, the format has since spread to various platforms such as Youtube, where people have started channels based around the concept of the presidents sitting down for game sessions. Some channels have spread out to other characters as well, such as Sonic the Hedgehog.
Across many videos:
- Comic Trio: Videos that feature Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden will often have them be some variant of this.
- Depending on the Writer: If we listed every single difference, we'd be here all day. To list only one example, Joe Biden's Cloud Cuckoo Lander mindset and overall competence vary wildly, either playing up his hazy mental state or portraying him as just as competent as the rest of the presidents.
- Trash Talk: Many videos, most often ones that involve the U.S. presidents, has at least one character engage in this.
In specific videos or channels:
- Adaptational Heroism: The titular Albert Wesker in the Wesker and Friends
videos. He is noticeably not mad with power with plans to genocide humanity, but instead often acts as the Only Sane Man to Chris' shenanigans while being roommates with Leon and Ethan, going to drive-thrus and the like. His abrasiveness is still there, though. - Berserk Button: Season 2 of OddgiantAF's custom intros for Mortal Kombat 1, Johnny Cage turned Omni-Man's costume pink. Omni-Man gets so pissed off that he hunts Johnny down to murder him every time he sees him, even after Geras keeps rewinding time to save Johnny's life. By the third time it happens, Geras gets fed up and uses his powers to turn Omni-Man's costume back to normal and calm him the hell down.
- Big Eater: Chris in Wesker and Friends orders gigantic amounts of food whenever he's in a drive-thru with the others, which Wesker frequently complains about since it obviously drains his wallet.
- Flanderization: Chris Redfield gets hit with this the most on the Wesker and Friends videos, although it's Played for Laughs. While he's the most heroic character with few flaws in the source material, here he's a giant Manchild that often threatens to whip out his massive boulder if he doesn't get his way.
- Hypocritical Humor: In Season 1
of OddgiantAF's custom intros
for Mortal Kombat 1, Liu Kang states
that the numerous neck jokes from the previous timeline at Kung Lao's expense must continue, much to the latter's dismay. Later, when Shang Tsung tells Kung Lao about Liu Kang getting his neck snapped, Kung Lao decides to brag about it
to Liu Kang. Cue Liu Kang immediately grabbing him and summoning a black hole to kill him, saying that nobody can ever know. Also later in part 10
, when Kung Lao posts on social media about Liu Kang's neck snap, he decides to blow up the current timeline and rebuild the next one. - Take That!: In The Presidents Go on Wheel of Fortune
, one of the tossup categories is "Honest and Truthful Video Game Companies" with the answer being Blizzard Entertainment. None of the contestants want to step up to solve the puzzle when they realize it and question Pat on including them, with the latter admitting to being required to do so because they're leading sponsors. After the obligatory sponsor video, Obama asks if Kim Jong Un had his generals make the propaganda video, which he declines saying not even he would defend Blizzard. - Villainous Breakdown: In President Playdates'
videos, it's not uncommon to see at least one president have a breakdown when they lose a game, or even if something just doesn't go their way. George W. Bush is most often the victim of this.
