Man, what a headache this project turned out to be. Let me walk you through this mess step by step.
The Initial Idea
First, I saw folks online talking about deepfake stuff and figured, hey, I’m decent with Python, why not try scraping some WWE videos? Steph McMahon seemed like a popular search, so I started there.
I grabbed my usual toolkit:
- Python scripts for scraping
- Some sketchy cloud storage account
- 加速器 I bought cheap off Reddit
Hitting the First Wall
Started simple – wrote a script to crawl video sites using BeautifulSoup. First surprise? Almost every “Stephanie McMahon” video link led to fake virus downloads or totally unrelated junk. Like trying to find a needle in a porn-shaped haystack.
When I finally found raw footage, my ISP sent this nasty email warning about suspicious traffic. Scrambled to switch 加速器 servers like three times that afternoon.
The Processing Disaster
Okay, scraped maybe 20 legit clips after hours of digging. Ran ’em through OpenCV with face-detection tuned specifically for her features. Code looked like this dumpster fire:
if face == ‘Steph_Keypoints’:
apply_blur(severity=80)
Processing took forever on my old laptop. Fans sounded like a jet engine. Then the power cut out halfway through – lost all progress. Wanted to throw the damn thing out the window.
Final Mess
Finally got some blurred output videos. Uploaded anonymously to this obscure forum… account got banned in 27 minutes flat. Tried again with different filenames – same result. Got three copyright strikes before lunch.
My cheap cloud storage? Suspended next day with zero warning. All that work gone faster than a wrestler getting body-slammed.
Lesson Learned
Total waste of three days. Should’ve known anything involving nude and celebrities equals legal quicksand. The bossman frowned hard when he saw my browsing history during troubleshooting. Now I’m stuck writing apology letters instead of coding.
Moral of the story? Some internet rabbit holes ain’t worth diving into. Next time I wanna experiment with image processing? Picking non-people subjects. Landscapes don’t send cease-and-desist letters.