AI startup Luma Labs released Dream Machine last week, but its AI-powered video generation software has already proven to be very popular. Dream Machine demand has overloaded luma's servers, introduced a queuing system, and introduced daily prompt limits for free tier usage. Currently, users are putting AI models at the pace by animating and creating enhanced versions of popular memes. 

Content creator Madni Aghadi started the weekend trend with a thread of x (formerly Twitter), a popular still-image meme that was converted into video using dream Machine, according to Know Your Meme. Examples included a distracted boyfriend, the infamous face palm of Captain Picard, and so on. 

Not surprisingly, the thread inspired other users to try to give new life to their favorite memes. I've rounded up some of the best examples you can check out below. We even tried our luck with animating one of our own favorite still image memes. 

First of all, Oldies (at least in terms of meme lifetime), but Goody. As a video, the distracted boyfriend shows his eponymous partner, where another woman is walking and even begins to chase her. His girlfriend looks around in shock like a meme. She also seems to stare into the sky and glancing at the woman before awkwardly shuffling with him in place as he walks, as they talk to each other

The popular reaction images of babies on the beach with smug facial expressions and fists don't actually add much in video format. He shakes his fist a little and shakes it back and forth, immediately distracting and staring at something in the distance. (Maybe it's the same thing the girlfriend was looking at? I smell a crossover episode!

I could not find any name of this on knowing your meme, but it was too funny to include it. The original image shows a baby sleeping on a mattress with an adult-size Nike Jordan apparently dwarfing their tiny legs. The dream machine really took that prompt and ran with it - and I literally mean it. 

In the video version, the baby floats up and breaks in a crazy dash through the window into a sunlit suburban garden. As the baby appears to be floating like a marionette supported by an invisible leash and running straight through the window glass, this video is the most then, again, who knows, maybe there's a fancy new glassless window out there and I'm not the age and hip. 

Is this joke immature? Yes. Do I still make it regularly? You bet. The infamous Deez Nuts video is the oldest meme on this list (before YouTube) and has an extended version thanks to Dream Machine. And of all these, it got the biggest laugh from me.

After he provided a punchline on the phone, he turned his head to stare straight at the camera as it sounded like an off-brand version of law and order "dun-dun"

I didn't know why this meme always makes me laugh, but because it is, the video processing was so slow. I thought it would be the best candidate to receive the award. The animation of a villager's walk in the animal Forest looks pretty awkward, like a paper doll that is moved instead of a three-dimensional object. And don't ask me what their shirts are doing. Either the dream machine was trying to emulate the material swooshing back and forth in their stride or mistook the shirt for a part of the villager's body. (Am I crazy or do I look like I'm breathing?)Dream Machine also produced some alphabet soup out of the "I'm leaving" caption of the original image.