Over the weekend, one of the weirder AI-generated influencers we’ve been following on Instagram escaped containment. On X, several users linked to an Instagram account pretending to be hot conjoined twins. With two yassified heads and often posing in bikinis, Valeria and Camelia are the Instagram perfect version of the very rare but real condition.
On X, just two posts highlighting the absurdity of the account gained over 11 million views. On Instagram, the account itself has gained more than 260,000 followers in the six weeks since it first appeared, with many of its Reels getting millions of views.
Valeria and Camelia’s account doesn’t indicate this anywhere, but it’s obviously AI generated. If you’re wondering why someone is spending their time and energy and vast amounts of compute pretending to be hot conjoined twins, the answer is simple: money. Valeria and Camelia’s Instagram bio links out to a Beacons page which links out to a Telegram channel whey they sell “spicy” content. Telegram users can buy that content with “stars,” which users can buy in packages that cost up to $2,329 for 150,000 stars.
Joining the channel costs 692, and the smallest package of stars the channel sells is 750 stars for $11.79. The channel currently has only 225 subscribers, so without counting whatever content it's selling inside the channel, at the moment it seems it has generated at least $2,652.75. That’s not bad for an operation anyone can spin up with a few prompts, free generative AI tools, and a free Instagram account.
In its Instagram Stories, Valeria and Camelia’s account answers a series of questions from followers where the person behind them constructs an elaborate backstory. They’re 25, raised in Florida, and talk about how they get stares in public because of their appearance.
“We both date as one and both have to be physically and emotionally attracted to the same guy," the account wrote. "We tried dating separately and that did not go well."
Valeria and Camelia are the latest trend in what we at 404 Media have come to call “the AI babe meta.” In 2024, Jason and I wrote about people who are AI-generating influencers to attract attention on Instagram, then sell AI-generated nude images of those same personalities on platforms like Fanvue. As more people poured into that business and crowded the market, the people behind these AI-generated influencers started to come up with increasingly esoteric gimmicks to make their AI-influencers stand out from the crowd. Initially, these gimmicks were as predictable as the porn categories on Pornhub—“MILFs” etc—but things escalated quickly.
For example, Jason and I have been following an account that has more than 844,000 followers, where an influencer pretends to have three boobs. This account also doesn’t indicate that it’s AI generated in its bio, despite Instagram’s policy requiring it, but does link out to a Fanvue account where it sells adult content. On Fanvue, the account does tag itself as being AI-generated, per the platform’s rules. I’ve previously written about a dark moment in the AI babe meta where AI-generated influencers pretended to have down syndrome, and more recently the meta was pretending to be involved in sexual scandals with any celebrity you can name.
Other AI babe metas we have noticed over the last few months include female AI-generated influencers with dwarfism, AI-generated influencers with vitiligo, and amputee AI-generated influencers (there are several AI models designed specifically to generate images of amputees).
I think there are two main reasons the AI babe meta has gone in these directions. First, as Sam wrote the week we launched 404 Media, the ability to instantly generate any image we can describe with a prompt in combination with natural human curiosity and sex drive, will inevitably drive porn to the “edge of knowledge.” Second, it’s obvious in retrospect, but the same incentives that work across all social media, where unusual, shocking, or inflammatory content generally drives more engagement, clearly applies to the AI babe meta as well. First we had generic AI influencers. Then people started carving out different but tame niches like “redheads,” and when that stopped being interesting we ended up with two heads and three boobs.
