"Hit With a Kimchi Slap, Caught Red-Handed on a Foldable Phone": AI Mockery Memes About Jensen Huang Spread

Memes mocking the alleged affair proliferate
Wordplay on "chip," "mistress" and "spy" catches on in South Korea

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, who has helped lead the global artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductor industries, has now become the subject of mocking videos made with the very AI technology he helped advance. Various parodies satirizing a scandal involving his private life have been spreading online.

On Nov. 12, AI-generated videos and images featuring Huang and Alice Huang, a Chinese businesswoman named as his alleged affair partner, were shared one after another on social networking services (SNS) and social media in South Korea and abroad.

The video currently drawing the most explosive reaction in South Korea is a parody of the so-called "kimchi slap," recreating an iconic scene from a Korean morning drama 12 years ago. In the video, created with generative AI, Huang's wife, Lori Huang, strides into his office at Nvidia's headquarters, pulls out red napa cabbage kimchi, and slaps him hard across the face. Even the mouth movements as she unleashes a stream of Korean insults and her furious expression are rendered so convincingly that they resemble real footage. In effect, netizens are using AI to vicariously vent the suppressed anger of the devoted wife who stood by her husband in the company's early days in 1995, even pawning her wedding ring to support him.

The video currently generating the most explosive response in South Korea is a so-called "Kimchi Slap" parody based on an iconic scene from a Korean morning drama 12 years ago. SNS

Another video drawing attention parodies the so-called "kiss cam affair scandal" at a Coldplay concert that made headlines around the world last year. The 13-second video shows Huang embracing Alice Huang from behind, then hurriedly hiding when the two appear on the concert venue's giant screen.

It is an AI-generated recreation of the incident in which the CEO of software company Astronomer and a female executive were caught embracing on the big screen at a Coldplay concert, sparking an affair controversy. Social media

It recreates with AI the incident at a Coldplay concert near Boston, Massachusetts, in July last year, when the CEO of software company Astronomer and a female executive were caught embracing on the big screen, sparking an infidelity scandal. The Hollywood romantic comedy "500 Days of Summer" has also become a source of parody. Huang and Alice Huang's faces are superimposed on the film's famous elevator scene, and its title is changed to "500 Days of Chip," a play on semiconductors.

In one video, a photo appears on a foldable smartphone screen showing CEO Huang and his wife, Lori Huang, affectionately touching faces. But when the phone is unfolded, Alice Huang appears on the other side of CEO Huang. The video uses the foldable display to poke fun at CEO Huang's affair. Social media.

Witty satire drawing on smartphone technology has also emerged. In one video, a photo appears on the screen of a foldable smartphone showing Huang and his wife, Lori Huang, affectionately touching their faces together. But when the phone is unfolded, Alice Huang appears opposite Huang. The video uses the foldable display to take a jab at Huang's affair. Huang's signature black leather jacket has also become a target of ridicule. Overseas, memes have circulated comparing him to a character in a spy movie or imagining him unemployed and displaying an "Open to Work" badge on his LinkedIn profile.

Jokes about divorce and Huang's vast wealth have also continued. Some netizens have made satirical posts based on the possibility that Lori Huang could receive an astronomical settlement if they divorced. In South Korea, a play on words linking "chip," meaning a semiconductor, "cheop," meaning a mistress, and "gancheop," meaning a spy, has become popular.

The phrase "LOVE LOVE LOVE," which CEO Hwang left on a restaurant table during a past visit to Korea, has also drawn renewed attention. At the time, it was seen as a message expressing his affection for Korea, but more recently, some have mocked it in connection with the controversy surrounding his private life. SBS

The phrase "LOVE LOVE LOVE," which Huang left on a restaurant table during a past visit to South Korea, has also drawn renewed attention. At the time, it was seen as a message expressing his affection for South Korea, but recent reactions have mocked it in connection with the controversy surrounding his private life. The flood of parodies targeting Huang is drawing even more attention, ironically, because he is a central figure in the AI industry. The head of a company that has supplied semiconductors needed to develop generative AI around the world has himself become the subject of satirical content created with AI technology.

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.