… take 2. Previously on this blog (in my 5/11 posting “The gay handshake”), a quote from GoNakedMagazine and Travels, on the Medium site, “The Gay Handshake: 5 Reasons Why Blowjobs [Are] Good for Your Health” … with this wonderful photo of a handsome young Latino character enjoying an especially long and thick churro filled with vanilla cream:
(#1) Chavo con churro (Mexican nickname Chavo ‘kid’), as I’ve come to think of him, in a photo I’ve been unable to find the source of
And then in the last few days I’ve been blitzed with tv commercials for Subway footlong snacks to accompany their footlong subs. From the Subway newsroom:
Subway® Reveals Sidekicks, an Irresistible Collection of Footlong Cookies, Churros and Pretzels
Three beloved snacks — Subway’s chocolate chip cookies, Cinnabon® churros and Auntie Anne’s® pretzels — take on a new, iconic footlong form, exclusively at Subway restaurants starting January 22.
Ah, I thought, this would be where Chavo and his monster churro come from. Subway does have ads with the company’s footlong churros in their mouths, like this one:
(#2)
But Chavo’s surely not part of this ad campaign.
First, the churro in Chavo’s mouth is way thicker than than the ones Subway’s been selling. Second, Chavo is a shirtless Latino hunk wearing beads, some kind of bad boy, while the young woman in #2 — like all the people I’ve seen eating Subway’s footlong offerings in the company’s photos — is a throughly wholesome character (I think of her as a mom taking her small children to the playground in the background).
Then there’s the actual food. What Chavo has in his mouth looks like a genuine churro, deep-fried and crispy. What Park Mom has in her mouth is something merely heated up (apparently in a microwave), and (to judge from comments on the net) it’s inauthentically (and unpleasantly) chewy. But then who would order a churro from Subway?
Meanwhile, the Whence Chavo search continues.
[Addendum 5/18: now see RF’s comment below, suggesting (persuasively to my mind) that Chavo is a realistic AI creation. Which should then be credited as the digital art of the creator.]
May 17, 2024 at 7:52 pm |
I think it’s very likely that there is no real Chavo, and the entire image is AI generated. The author has a series of Medium articles about generating photorealistic AI images, beginning here:
https://medium.com/@GoNakedMagazine/ai-image-prompt-of-the-day-monday-february-12-2024-24dc53656fab
(Apologies if this posted twice; the page crashed the first time I tried.)
May 18, 2024 at 4:01 am |
Oh, I didn’t assume that Chavo was real, which is why I carefully referred to him as a character. But the image has a source, and I think you have just found it.