Extra‑Stupid Meta AI Image Suggestion & My Movie Star “Career” — IMRAN®

Extra‑Stupid Meta AI Image Suggestion & My Movie Star “Career” — IMRAN®

I’m all for people posting their fake AI glam shots, and I can appreciate a good stylized meme now and then. But Meta/Facebook shoving these things into my feed nonstop is just… annoying and dumb.

Ironically, the style is called Arcade, and back in those days my cousins, best friends, and I would spend hours st video arcades. I got to play a lot because fortunately those were owned by some friends. 

(Sidebar: Another UET student, civil engineer Umar Ashfaq, literally became the father of the video game arcades industry in Pakistan. He started with 3 expensive imported consoles in a shop called Space Invaders in Fortress Stadium and then became the builder and supplier to arcades nationwide!)

For the record, even back when I was offered a Pakistani Lollywood action‑hero role (Qaatil Key Talash) during my engineering‑university days in Lahore in the early 1980s, I didn’t have that much hair. 😂 

The screenwriter, Qazi Mushtaq, actually from UET as well, had based the role on my swashbuckling, Yamaha‑Enduro‑riding BMOC persona at the University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore.

My father would’ve run me out of town—without my motorcycle—if I’d actually taken the role. Another young man, Babar, ended up doing it and became a big star while I was busy studying and then building my life in the United States.

So now, I guess I’ll just have to wait for Hollywood to discover me. Ideally for a role opposite Charlize Theron. Somehow I doubt this Meta‑generated proposed meme is going to land me anything, even if I “submitted” it to Variety or The Hollywood Reporter asking for their help! 😊

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