Last month, Yung Lean made his US television debut with a recreation of his and GENER8ION's viral "Storm" music video at the VMAs. The hypnotic choreography captures the Swedish rapper/singer standing and smoking a cigarette in the middle of 66 dancing boys, and the live performance was even more mesmerizing. The video was shot by legendary French film director Romain Gavras, who expressed his disappointment in AI-generated slop imitations of the video that have ensued.

In a conversation with Vulture , Gavras says his daughter was the first to show him an imitation, which featured dogs. At first he thought it was cute, until the trend took an edgy turn, incorporating Elon Musk, Kim Jong-un, Hitler, Jeffrey Epstein, and the like. "It made me sad for all the people who put in so much work on our video," Gavras told Vulture . "A trend like this can make even good work look lame.…