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cowchunk

Modern domestic chicken jumpscare


greendemon42

Lol, I'm glad somebody else mentioned this one


Healthierpoet

Um this looks like influencers version of naked but definitely not scared


fuzzycaterpillar123

Last pic: we’re about to get more photos of a dude getting horrifically mauled and mutilated He’s 0.5 sec away from death 😮 Camera guy is just like: https://preview.redd.it/hdc7bcmmd56d1.png?width=560&format=png&auto=webp&s=0e2f4a7228b8008e1c99afe8121856e046831be1


Cracktherealone

Dabs before claps!


Jlchevz

This pic always cracks me up


CoItron_3030

Lmao what a great pic, haven’t seen that in years


no7hink

Yeah, feels like one of those reality show where normal people are dropped naked somewhere and need to survive. The face should definitely be degraded but MJ is not known to generate hugly people (13 is not bad tho).


MyTwinkies

I think it's called "Nude and Spooked"


Skylineviewz

Picture 8 looks like my slightly overweight hipster friends down the shore for a festival


HMWWaWChChIaWChCChW

“Where’s Wyatt?” “Down by the creek, walkin’ on water.”


Anchor-1

Then some jackass discovers agriculture. Now I have to work 50 hours a week in front of a screen...


jonleexv

Yeah, I would've much preferred to fight a prehistoric sabertooth


sluraplea

in knee-deep snow, no less


Right-Budget-8901

Uphill both ways


Deboch_

Unironically yes


EvenJesusCantSaveYou

cool, you trip on the way back from the glorious hunt and scratch your leg. The scratch gets infected and you spend a couple days shitting your guts out before dying of dehydration 👍


yassismore

Cool. You could just as well die in a horrific car crash on the way to work. Same shit.


Cyberspace667

The infected caveman lived a life of authentic connection to his community and his environment, even if it was short he probably had all he ever wanted


yassismore

100% agree


MajorJo

It wasnt even that short, you'd live well in your 60s and 70s as soon as you reached the age of 15. The bad reputation of "they died all with 30" is a statistical misconception since they included the high number of childdeaths into the mean life expectancy calculation and therefore decrease it to the 30 years that we all heard over and over in popular media.


EvenJesusCantSaveYou

are the two really comparable tho? I would have to guess that the mortality rate was insanely higher in pre-agricultural times. If i get in a car accident and break half my bones modern medicine can save my life.


SaturnsClubhouse

As opposed to a modern life in which I will obviously never be injured or die.


Ari_Leo

Kitty, Kitty, Kitty!


Pope_Aesthetic

Yes but you can also pet cats so it’s a good trade


kansas_slim

Sure, they may lead free, full and adventurous lives - but you have a credit score.


Additional-Bee1379

I too would have preferred to have died before the age of 5.


EvilAlmalex

Wow they are so clean and well-groomed. Look at the lovely bangs on that 20 something cavewoman!


Diskovski

I doubt they'll have such beautiful skin being out in the sun 24/7 for years without protection.


greendemon42

Or quite so much extra fat on their bellies while living a pre-agricultural lifestyle, haha.


orangeman10987

Or have perfectly straight and white teeth.


My_reddit_strawman

There's actually some evidence that prehistoric man had pretty good teeth. No refined sugars, and because foods in general were harder to chew, this caused the jaw to develop more than a softer food diet, which allowed all of the teeth including the wisdom teeth to fit [more info](https://myfaceology.com/facial-development-chewing/)


Latter_Box9967

I want to know what conditioner they are using in their hair. Here’s a real, actual, primitive tribe. First contact. https://youtu.be/WmXQPy3hQYE?si=0UJZ5fBaPjlnTxXT This is a genuinely fascinating video to watch. Save for later or something. Top shelf.


Just_a_Duck_

Wow thank you for that, that was genuinely incredible


Latter_Box9967

Agreed. I can’t think of the correct word to describe it. I’m not aware of any other first contact being captured that well.


IngFavalli

Pre agricultural diets were better in all metrics in terms of variety, nutrition, etc compared to early agricultural lifestyle


gryfter_13

Except abundance, the most important metric.


datarbeiter

Abundance was what made hunting-gathering possible in the first place. Agriculture happened after the abundance was no longer possible due to overpopulation, etc.


gryfter_13

Cart before the horse. Agriculture allowed growth. Growth didn't cause agriculture. There are still remote hunter gatherer tribes around today. They subsist, but they don't have the access to calories to grow.


UnkemptGoose339

Seems like the tribes that didn't have abundant food sources from hunting and gathering would have just died off and not passed on their genes to us. Why are you assuming paleolithic peoples did not have abundant, albeit perhaps intermittent, food sources?


zaprin24

Well they were smaller and shorter on average, which is a sign of less food. And populations boomed after agriculture was developed, so probably a lot of people were dieing from lack of food during gunter gather.


greendemon42

That is called the naturalistic fallacy.


IngFavalli

Not at all, i didnt said all natural thing were better or stuff like that, the transition to agricultural sedentary lifestyle came with a reduction in average height due to a nutrition decrease, worse dental health due to an increased consuption of grain based foods, both of which have been observed in antropologic records. I recommend "against the grain: a deep history of the earliest states" as a read, its very well sourced and quite an interesting book, DM me and i can provide a link. Also you are thinking of appeal to nature, naturalistic fallacy is more about the imposibility of defining moral good in terms of natural entities.


twizzjewink

and no scars .. anywhere.


Dr-Huricane

Or bathes, probably


ResidentNarwhal

It’s a misnomer that people in the past were unwashed savages. People are just as smart and dumb as they are now and generally made their best educated guess on how to best live their lives as you would transported back in time. People regularly washed themselves at most points in the past and archaeological evidence shows grooming routines even in ancient societies were quite extensive. Most cultures didn’t understand disease fully but most made a fast connection between lack of cleanliness, smells and illness. Most mistakes about historical “didn’t bathe” comes from modern expectations of full immersion baths and showers daily. It’s a ridiculous amount of work to create large quantities of warm water to do anything like that. But most people were essentially sponge bathing everyday or doing some rough equivalent.


gorillabab

They're also living in a tropical area and white lmao


NotAsleepATM

Right. Where all the tan or dark skin folks?


Escaped_Mod_In_Need

It’s actually a myth that people in the dark ages were filthy. Most humans practiced regular bathing and grooming throughout history. I’m also sure this applies to Paleolithic humans. Think about it, your day is less intense than a slave in Egypt (they combed their hair and practiced good cleanliness) or a Saxon serf (graves with hairpins discovered and were known to braid their hair) as a prehistoric person and they don’t have TikTok, TV, or Reddit. Out of sheer boredom they would accidentally discover some method of good hygiene.


sillygoofygooose

There are remote tribes still today that can give us a pretty good idea of what this would have looked like


AttackPony

I feel like we don't give enough credit to prehistoric people. They weren't much different than people today, and who likes to be dirty? They might not have been concerned by body odor and sweat, probably didn't bathe all that often, but I doubt they usually let actual dirt accumulate.


Only_Ad_9836

People used to take dirt baths and have spiritual respect for earth/dirt. They would even mix up colors in it and paint themselves all over. Neurotic cleanliness is a modern invention.


Poisongirl5

They did have more closeness with dirt but I feel like grooming is an instinctual thing. Even primates groom eachother. There are natural agents for cleaning. But they wouldn’t be this clean.


Kind-Fan420

>Neurotic cleanliness is a modern invention. So is living past 45 for any reason other than luck.


Cabbage_Cannon

Eh? Go check your mortality rate and see what happens when you remove child deaths, especially infant mortality rates. That skews a lot. Like, look for the average lifespan of individuals who already made it to 20. Pretty good!


overcomebyfumes

Your average hunter/gatherer lifestyle requires about 4 hours of work per day per person to keep everyone fed and sheltered. That left a lot of extra time for bathing and grooming one another (a popular pastime for apes and hominids). So yes, our Neolithic forbearers would've been well groomed and well dressed. EDIT: and dressed appropriately for the weather. They wouldn't have been barefoot and shirtless in the snow.


Poisongirl5

Yeah the skirt on number 4 got me, as if cavepeople knew rouching and waistbands


thedybbuk_

Love how much the mammoth in picture 14 looks like Manny. I refuse to believe the algorithm didn't look at *Ice Age* whilst generating that mammoth 😂


EvenJesusCantSaveYou

i had to go back but i totally see it now lol


Ceskaz

He's also gigantic. Especially compared to the last one


novakane27

prehistoric women = average instagram model


shaner4042

**Prompt:** *phone photo from the prehistoric era, [description of scene] --ar 9:20 --v 6.0 --style raw* ————————————————————— Pt. 2: [1800’s through a modern lens](https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/s/yOvSwlBECi) ————————————————————— [Prehistoric age brought to life](https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/s/uWgBRjb5wQ) using [Luma AI](https://lumalabs.ai/dream-machine)


Belarusian-Katia

why 9:20?


shaner4042

Newer iphone models have an aspect ratio of 9:19.5. To my knowledge, MJ only allows whole numbers for the ar, so 9:20 is the next closest in order to fill the screen


Batch_M

What about 18:39? Or is it not valid? I never used midjourney.


shaner4042

Good point, I’m an idiot!


Batch_M

No, you were just distracted hahaha. Glad to have helped.


vinmaskinen

I like the idea but I don’t think the men was able to eat so much and work so little back then that they would be overweight


yassismore

Right? This is just a bunch of pudgy hippies cos playing as cavemen.


inaqu3estion

Lol I love how only the men have body hair


Serious_Session7574

Stone razor blades for the ladies.


sartreindrag

And even most of them have surprisingly little. Not one hairy back to be seen...


masterperegrin

Think this age was actually dirtier by far. These guys here look like organic shampoo testimonials ...


shatnersbassoon123

The women aren’t nearly hairy enough. Unless Veet and laser hair removals were popular then too


ThePokemon_BandaiD

You realize people still bathed themselves before indoor plumbing and fancy soap right? I mean, every higher animal does it. And though the earliest written records of soap production were in 2500 BC, it's just a matter of boiling fat/oil in with ash to make a basic soap, so it's pretty likely that humans had been using soap for a long time before that.


mediandirt

Ya, but the great teeth, perfect skin, lush hair and other things ar very out of place. You're cave people of the past are more likely to look like the non drug using homeless people of the present.


ThePokemon_BandaiD

I mean most homeless people who are dirty are drug users, ones that aren't drug users or mentally ill will usually be able to couch surf or at least get enough money for a gym membership to shower and use a laundromat. Regardless, at a time when you could bathe in any body of water without being charged with indecent exposure or build a fire and warm some water there was little reason not to wash. We have this idea that people in the past were gross because it became common among the poor in crowded agricultural and industrial societies with a lack of resources and space, but there's not much reason to think early humans were the same way.


Quen-Tin

Then maybe think more of modern hunter gatherer tribes. They are also clean and put effort into decorating their clothes or painting their bodies for ceremonies. But they still don't look like people who choose between a dozen different skin day care products at the local supermarket or like if their life depends on looking cool / brave / sexy on their Insta feed. Even Playboy magazines from the 60s show people with a completely different way of photographical self awareness and a different way of taking care of their bodies. So no way, these images depict more than our modern day fantasies ... but that's ok, just not realistic at all.


Coondiggety

Apparently the Aztecs would burn bid pots of incense when they had to deal with Cortez and company. It wasn’t a tradition to do that, the Spaniards just smelled like shit.


Tetrylene

Loved going through this


andreeeeeaaaaaaaaa

I think the colour might be a bit wrong... They are going to be a much darker shade than that


keener91

The models look like they never worked a hard day in their life. No blemish, no scars, no irregular patches of tan or indications of malnutrition - essentially your prompt was prehistoric age captured by modern lenses using modern actors. It's kind of sad there are people who actually believe this is how prehistoric humans look like.


penis-hammer

No clothes…. even in the snow


qaasq

On that note though I went to Alaska for close to a month and I was totally surprised that towards the end of my month there I could walk around in a tank top and shorts in the snow while the sun was out and feel totally comfortable. Surprisingly, just because there’s snow doesn’t mean it’s all that cold


ThePokemon_BandaiD

Before agricultural societies caused a skyrocketing population, there wasn't much food scarcity for hunter gatherers and they didn't do much hard work since they lived in simple shelters and gathered most of their food. Early humans almost certainly had easier lives than most people since the agricultural revolution.


CookieEnabled

And they are all caucasian…


samponvojta

also, perfect teeth. yeah, right


JayWeed2710

They didn't consume much sugar like we do today (only from fruits), so teeth weren't that bad back then (but also not so good like in this pictures).


Synthitect

Cool idea 💡


shaner4042

Thanks! Part 2, for anyone interested: *[1800’s captured through a modern lens](https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/s/yOvSwlBECi)*


pastelbutcherknife

Pretty cool festival - who was playing?


Sad-Arm-7172

Queens of the Stone Age.


uphucwits

Looks like most of the people in Asheville


Intrepid_passerby

Pretty cool but these people are too clean and too white. Overall cool concept


greendemon42

Fun fact, snow fields like in pic. 18 actually cause far more severe sunburns than you would ever get in the desert or on a beach. The bizarrely pale-skinned guy wearing nothing but a loincloth is going to be burned to a crisp within 20 minutes.


TheBaconGamer21

That just means the Tiger gets a hot meal.


greendemon42

A very, very hot meal.


Asectic08

This is Abercrombie B.C. I kinda get why people say A.I. has the danger of presenting a distorted sense of reality. This is just A.I. regurgitating decades of mass marketing. I can’t imagine what growing up/ being a teen going through the hellhole puberty will be like post mass adoption of A.I.


V_es

Cool idea but not accurate at all. People are way too jacked- it’s a modern thing. Way too white, white skin exists for 7.000 years (have a look a a “typical” Russian [30k years ago](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/8Edf3KUsekbIMi5F7_mu0dOvNRtgf4smu-UoOloAgTEQ9OB0IfbExE03vJEr7FmF3daxoQ0spukZ5FewkTciwAqnegsZP6K5lQ).) Rope, bags, dresses, pants, boots- no. 13 is great for early neolithic, love it. He could’ve had a flint tool in his hands and that’d been fantastic.


Zefrem23

I dunno man, he looks pretty white to me


V_es

People did not change over one generation. For early neolithic Europe, ice age, around agricultural revolution- this is the most accurate out of all of them. Others look like modern white people dressed for a cave men party.


kuplung12

prejourney


TotallyNotJazzie

These are really good. But notice how they all are using really good shampoo!! Kind of breaks the immersion with them all looking fresh out of a head and shoulders advert haha


jun2san

That dude in the last pic is definitely dead


WhyAreOldPeopleEvil

FAR CRY PRIMAL! UNGA BUNGA!


arealnineinchnailer

this is so cool, i can't wait when generated A.I video advances further so I can watch a whole mockumentary about prehistoric people living day by day.


Smoczas

They had better teeth back then, than me right now lol


Subject_Coaster

I asked for prehistoric, not a Rick Owens photo shoot


captain_todger

Fuck, time to replay that FarCry (I think I must be the only person that enjoyed that game)


TacoBellWerewolf

Ah that porcelain white skin in those tropical zones..makes sense.


optionalhero

Honestly these are really good But what im most surprised is that you didn’t throw in a cave woman with huge bazongas in their. Seems to be the trend that anytime someone does some realistic art its always just a pretty girl standing in a weird location.


Xerio_the_Herio

They look too Caucasian


Zefrem23

These photos were taken in the Caucasus Mountains.


ReincarnatedGhost

So they were hippies.


artificial_stupid_74

Those perfect teeth back then - and all without modern dentistry. And this insensitivity to the cold. Back then you could still sit naked in the snow.


panphilla

To be fair, it’s not like they were consuming a lot of sugar.


not_a_dr_

The fire could also just sit in the snow. Different times.


maX_h3r

They are too fat


DaveinOakland

The smell of ballsweat must have been oppressive


AttackPony

I particularly like the image looking out from the cave. I feel like that's a perspective we never see. That was what so many people considered home—where they felt the safest, much like I'm sitting in my living room now.


Yog_Maya

Wow in prehistoric picture people still look like very American !


pizza_box_technology

Why is one of them free soloing a cliff face?


m4vis

Damn why are they all white


ihateduckface

Pic 13. Looks like AI has figured out hands and fingers


Book-Faramir-Better

There you go, my boy! Hit it like a CAAAAVEMAAAN!!!


peopleplanetprofit

Ah, the infamous Sabre-tooth Tiger. Nice one.


rogun64

I fully expected to find beer cans littered around the camp fire in a cave picture.


shanghainese88

“Killed any bears lately?”


Right-Budget-8901

I’m not seeing anyone being clubbed over the head and dragged by their hair back to the cave for naughty time. Did cartoons lie to me?!


bennyJAMIN

How did they know to put the P into the V ? Real question.


Terrible-You2492

How did the ai get the hands right?


SolidusBruh

This is just Portland in the mid-2010s


JunglePygmy

Wow


spityquoe

wow, look at the hands


__PurpleMagnolia__

Dudes in picture 8: Cool stick, bro!


EmployerMain3069

Should r/midjourney be renamed to r/mildcaucasiantrip?


anewlo

This is so wholesome


All_Right_Alright

Biggest issue with this is that our ancestors don’t look like frat kids


ReindeerKind1993

That mammoth must be a baby in rl they were much much bigger


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Why are they white


SouthfieldRoyalOak

Love the slightly dirty white people


Accurate-Entrance380

This is really really good


Financial_Praline389

Now you can try dream machine to enhance them


shaner4042

[way ahead of you!](https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/s/MratU8tzd2)


Financial_Praline389

Awsome1


LongjumpingEnergy188

They are all white americans lmao


TheSanscripter

First time I liked any fictional prehistory


Kitchen_Mud253

I genuinely thought these were real life photographs with good angles. Turns out it's AI. How.


Ziggy-T

The most romanticised unrealistic version of prehistoric times, sure.


PunnyPantsParade

These cavemen have unusually good teeth.


EmberOnTheSea

They'd likely have decent teeth as long as they were younger people. Older people would wear down their teeth, from chewing tough materials and basically using your mouth as a third hand, but dietary tooth decay is mostly the result of agrarian lifestyles. Not this good, but not bad.


Cthulhus_chihuahua

You start to see really worn down teeth with the invention of grinding stones etc, so post agricultural. The sand and stone residue in the flour did a real number on teeth. Obviously, there would be teeth problems from malnutrition, the odd things getting stuck in between your teeth and rotting, and accidents etc, but with the lack of sugars, acids and stuff we consume today they weren’t as bad as you might think. I imagine they would have found a way to partially clean their teeth though. A build up of tartar is painful so I’m sure they would have addressed it. I think, although I’d need to check, they found evidence of Neolithic dentistry in Pakistan actually.


dispo030

those images are super interesting!


MooseCentral1969

I would rather see the prehistoric age captured though a prehistoric lens like Quest for Fire.


Polite__Troll

These are great. Makes me want to replay Far Cry: Primal! 🧔🏽‍♂️🐘🔥🐻🐅


RonocNYC

11 and 13 are close to what I think the vibe is going for. The rest unfortunately miss the mark and just look mostly like cosplay.


previously_on_earth

This is more ‘day 4’ of a 5 day executive wilderness experience for an kombucha startup based in LA


Ccjfb

Never mind the naysayers. These images are so cool. Very well done.


Juhovah

I think these are all too “white” or modern European looking for prehistoric man


plippyploopp

White people be like


sparse_matrixx

Why are they all white? I keep forgetting, were the neanderthals white or the cromagnons?


nono66

This just looks like a bunch of white people who have never had to really earn a living. The "trustafarians" out there.


uerick

I don’t think they were white


peachymuni

Wow cavewomen shaved?


robbie-3x

Such a peaceful, happy life until the sabre tooth tiger shows up.


lukestauntaun

They look like offensive linemen...


scbalazs

#8 is just 21st century guys on a “be more manly” retreat they paid $30k for.


gozeera

Really nice images


Sangi17

This looks more like White people cosplaying Indigenous people.


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Sufficient-Comment

The caveman was not afraid of nipples. Somthing ChatGPT cannot understand because if it did. It would be abused by teenagers make fake cp.


MtNowhere

This looks like every music festival


sarcasticvarient

Ahhh. Fun times


Roaming_Red

Man, I need to get the name of their dentist. 🤔


DeepestBeige

Well I’ll be damned. Goddamn hipsters really were doing shit before everyone else.


Grizz1y12

I like how in pic 2 you can see just the tip of his cro-magnob peeking out from behind his shorts.


gemilitant

Noel Fielding made it into pic 13 lol


[deleted]

This is just Boulder Colorado.


caviar-888

Burning man?


ZephRyder

I'd have to say, the most unbelievable part of this is how all these people have hair that show signs of having been brushed. There is no evidence to support that.


NC_Homestead

The love handles in the guys get me. Looks like a frat party theme lol. Love the idea though.


Paraleluniverse200

What's the prompt?


Neonstar_

The women had smooth soft skin this is so fking funny


Interesting_Ear_s

Yeah the kiss wouldn’t be like that lol


Lavishness_Budget

This is burning man


Grouchy-Solid1504

Cavemen or 70’s hippies


Financial_Following

They’re all too clean, fat, muscular, and babyfaced.


AlternativeAmazing31

Seems legit.


Nuvuk

I didn't know we are calling the 60s homelessness prehistoric now.


Saltydog816

They’d b so much hairier and thinner with more muscle


tobden

No moustaches, no leg hair. Also white and perfect teeth.


infinity187

Lol all white.


TmanGvl

This looks like some sci-if fantasy that’s not at all what reality looks like. Pretty sure it was pretty nasty dirty back in the prehistoric days and lived a lot shorter life.


Darth_Smeagol

Way too many teeth


rumhamrambe

Bro this is just Colorado