An artist used AI to put Barbie in the internet's weirdest memes and moments — check out the darkly subversive images

If you use the same words in a prompt, it will not generate the exact same image again, Roelofs said: "Once you start prompting, sometimes if you're a bit vague, it starts to create very random images." She typically uses a string of words rather than one to prompt the images.

She likens the use of the AI tool to the movie "Everything Everywhere All At Once" in which one character says "everything is just a random arrangement of particles in a vibrating superposition."

Roelofs compares this quote to the use of AI as by changing a prompt's wording, it can produce an entirely different image. 

The "we ride at dawn" Barbie was created in reference to the Big Bird meme that uses the same caption. It was posted in response to a video showing the dangers of farming in Louisiana as a result of a high population of alligators. 

Space Barbie with an approving expression was posted by Roelofs with the words "I approve" in response to an image and caption. It describes a woman who sparked controversy after she ripped off part of the Bible asking wives to be submissive to their husbands and used it to smoke weed.

Roelofs posted this Barbie in response to a news article about Uber filing a patent for an AI system, which could be used to tell if passengers were drunk and could be refused a ride. Alongside the Barbie image, she wrote: "One can always hotbox an Uber." 

A TikTok of a woman accusing a fellow American Airlines passenger of not being "real" went viral in July. Many social media users used a still image from the video to post memes. 

This AI-generated image of three Barbies sat in a car references a scene from the movie "Mean Girls," in which one character tells another: "Get in loser, we're going shopping." 

A spaceship from the movie "Nope" was reimagined as a Barbie wearing a hat in a similar shape, as "Barbie" and "Robert Oppenheimer" look on. 

Roelofs turned the popular "disaster girl" meme of a child standing in front of a burning building whilst smirking into a Barbie to poke fun at Doja Cat releasing a new single.

It was a light-hearted attempt to draw attention to the performer being criticized recently for her treatment of fans. 

The artist says if using the right word as a prompt can produce an image close to what you'd visualized.

"Very often, I can get the stereotypical Barbie face if I prompt right enough," she said. "If I ask it to do way too many things, it becomes more complex because then it also starts to influence the face more and it can look a bit creepy, so you have to really be specific." 

After Roelofs saw references to the Barbie movie all over social media, she realized that one of the messages was that Barbie could be anyone – even the conservative writer Ben Shapiro. 

"I thought, okay, if Barbie can be everything then I'm going to turn her into everything, from riding a crocodile to doing drugs and all sorts of things that are not expected," she said.  
 

Roelofs said she enjoys making the images as it's an outlet for creative expression that can visualize her "bizarre or random thoughts." 

Roelofs posted this image with the caption "Yes, all women are conspiring against in you" in response to a tweet by controversial British influencer Andrew Tate that says to "lock up every single girlfriend and wife on the planet." 

Images of Barbie smoking dope subvert the doll's typical depiction – just don't expect Mattel to release Weed Barbie any time soon.