Twinkle and Dinkle Get Paid
By Jim Bauer
@porwest (111868)
United States
December 29, 2025 7:37pm CST
At 52 going on 5 I think I am having WAY too much fun with some of this AI stuff, especially with my somewhat twisted imagination. So, the other day, I posted a picture on Facebook with an image of Twinkle and Dinkle, each with a $50 bill in their laps, and joked, "They finally got their royalties from their appearance in Elf on a Shelf Parody 6," which are videos my wife and I do around Christmastime for YouTube just for fun and laughs with the fam.
I've been messing around with Grok, which makes AI videos via prompts that I thought would conjoin better video imagery with my music videos for Synthetic Echoes, but then discovered it can also animate still images and I can write scripts it will follow.
Thus, I took the image I uploaded to Facebook with Twinkle and Dinkle holding the $50 bills, and gave them some dialogue and this is what it came up with.
Of COURSE I cannot help myself but to share with my myLot fam. The video is only 7 seconds long but I think perfectly captured my "vision."
What do you think?
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10 responses
Cute video.
@BarBaraPrz (51363)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
30 Dec
Did he say $100 each or in total?
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@BarBaraPrz (51363)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
31 Dec
@porwest You and I know that, but do they? 
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@porwest (111868)
• United States
31 Dec
@BarBaraPrz I don't know. They are stuffed, animated characters. Maybe they do, or maybe they don't. Look, if the video goes viral and the channel gets monetized, they can have whatever they want and then some. lol
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@LindaOHio (213900)
• United States
30 Dec
Oh my goodness. That is so funny. And so apropos.
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@LindaOHio (213900)
• United States
31 Dec
@porwest Sounds like a lot of fun. I'm just playing with my new smartphone. I like being able to text. I hope you and Dawn have a good New Year's Eve.
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@porwest (111868)
• United States
2 Jan
@LindaOHio We just stayed home, which is what we tend to do more and more for New Year's Eve. People really got the fireworks going, though. lol
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@porwest (111868)
• United States
30 Dec
I had fun with it. Now I am wondering if I can string together a series of videos. All I need to do is to set up some still shots, and Grok will animate them for me and make them talk. Worst case scenario, if the "acting" speech isn't good enough, I can do voices too and just record those myself and patch them onto the videos using my video editing software. It would take more time, but I think it would be a fun little project.
If I do an Elf on the Shelf one with the penguin and the elves, and maybe even string in some live action, at least I have a year to get it done. lol
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@porwest (111868)
• United States
30 Dec
@Nakitakona Not in this instance. I uploaded the picture of the two elves with the $50 bills in their laps, told it what to do and what to have them say, and Grok did the rest.
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@garymarsh6 (23828)
• United Kingdom
30 Dec
What a great little video. Well done. Happy New Year to you!
