More than a year ago, in April 2024, a YouTube channel quietly uploaded a curious AI-generated video that would later go viral.

The premise was simple: reimagine The Avengers as if the franchise had been made in the 1990s, replacing Marvel’s modern heroes with A-listers who ruled the box office back when pagers were still a thing.

The nostalgia trip turned Marvel’s billion-dollar franchise into a VHS-era fever dream starring the likes of Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, and even David Bowie.

The results were far from seamless. Most of the actors looked closer to their present-day selves than their 90s prime, a side effect of AI tools being trained on recent data. Still, that didn’t stop viewers from falling down the nostalgia rabbit hole, and flooding the comments section with cas

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