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Nick Clegg’s autotuned apology viewed 1.8 million times

Not only has the charity single version of Nick Clegg’s tuition fees pledge apology been the surprise hit of the year, entering the Top 40 download chart, but The Poke‘s video has now been viewed more than 1.8 million times on YouTube.

From The Wall blog:

James Herring, of PR firm Taylor Herring which worked with the The Poke on the autotuned story (and has done since The Poke launched two years ago), says that Clegg was such an easy target that the opportunity was simply too good to miss.

“We worked through the night to create the mash up

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    The picture is in the article if put through an AI detector comes out as high probability AI generated...
  • Simon McGrath
    @James, it is quite clearly to to pass itself off as associated with the Party by using the party name. The website is very odd. There are lots of strange b...
  • Hywel
    Also they don't identify who the data controller is, just say you will be notified about this if you sign up. When you go to sign up it asks for a number of bi...
  • Hywel
    That whole site/family of sites is very very weird and feels like an AI bot got drunk and went off on one. Eg this is about Leeds as a dating location: "Kirkg...
  • Jana
    @Hywel “(Also – why is everyone white?)” Your comment persuaded me to look at the site and, as you point out, all the couples shown are white. They ar...