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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
