Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps

(frinkiac.com)

105 points | by GlumWoodpecker 4 days ago ago

31 comments

  • GlumWoodpecker 26 minutes ago

    Surprised to find this on the front page today, I posted this four days ago (hovering over the post timestamp confirms this), yet the timestamp says "11 hours ago". Weird.

  • milchek 10 hours ago

    "Medium Setting!" - https://frinkiac.com/gif/S03E22/319309/322862/

    The GIF generator works well. Nice work!

    You could probably delete some of the frames that have credits shown over them - since you have plenty of material already anyway, for example: https://frinkiac.com/caption/S17E16/137763 or https://frinkiac.com/caption/S16E09/162162

    • monkpit 10 hours ago

      Frinkiac has been around for at least a decade :)

      • reaperhulk 9 hours ago

        We launched Feb 2, 2016 so almost a decade since then! Of course, we ran it for just ourselves a bit longer so it’s been slightly over a decade at this point.

        • MBCook 8 hours ago

          Has it been that long? I remember having a ton of fun with it when it first launched.

          Great job.

        • hemmert 8 hours ago

          Congratulations, really nice! I wasn’t aware of this.

    • jasongill 8 hours ago

      I've always wished the GIF generator could embed the subtitle like the single frame "make a meme" feature can, but it does work surprisingly well

  • ChrisKnott an hour ago

    This is literally my favourite website, I use it several times a week.

    I do wish the search was a bit better; it could show the matching quote below the matching frame, and it doesn’t seem to support phrase queries.

    A more advanced feature would be searching by speaking character too.

  • wyldfire 5 hours ago

    > No one who speaks German can be an evil man.

    https://frinkiac.com/caption/S05E02/566865

  • JeremyHerrman an hour ago

    shameless plug for a similar site which a friend built, but for dozens of TV shows and movies:

    https://amphetamem.es/

    • AmbroseBierce 33 minutes ago

      No South park hum? But Rick and Morty is there so it's not a policy against foul-mouthed cartoons; Smiling friends is also missing but perhaps it's too unknown or too recent to be there.

  • horsellama 2 hours ago

    shameless plug to something similar (albeit less polished) I’ve been hobbying on for Fantozzi and PeepShow (still wip)

    https://asdfasdf.fyi

  • mparnisari 7 hours ago

    I love this website. I wish I could search it in Spanish. I grew up watching the Simpsons in Spanish and I sometimes struggle to find the right clip because I don't know the exact translation

  • wyldfire 5 hours ago

    > Inflammable means flammable?

    > What a country!

    https://frinkiac.com/caption/S12E18/437896

  • wyldfire 5 hours ago
  • aizk 8 hours ago

    Very cool. Maybe add some image embeddings for additional metadata for the search results?

  • Zee2 8 hours ago

    Seems like the search is based only on the transcript/dialogue - not an image embedding. Would be super cool to actually use some CLIP/embedding search on these for a more effective fuzzy lookup.

    • adzm 7 hours ago

      How would someone go about doing this, just curious?

      • wincy 6 hours ago

        You’d just run every picture through CLIP, essentially you run an image generator backwards. Instead of text to image like most end users use when using something like stable diffusion (been awhile since I’ve done this), it can do the exact opposite and generate tokens (just words in this case) to describe the input image.

        I’d guess famous characters like Bart and Marge and other Simpsons characters would likely be known by the tokenizer so it’d be pretty easy. So then you’d be able to guess.

        Feel free to correct me on small details if anyone has this more fresh in their mind but I’m roughly correct here.

  • dan-g 9 hours ago

    See also: https://morbotron.com/ for Futurama!

  • martythemaniak 7 hours ago

    For enjoyers of classic simpsons, I highly recommend /r/simpsonsshitposting, a delightful blend classic simpsons, absurdist/surrealist/dadaist art, multilayered inside jokes and often NSFW content. It could not exist without The Frinkiac.

    • uza80 4 hours ago

      My primary news source.

  • balls187 8 hours ago
  • greekrich92 6 hours ago

    Possibly the best and most important website on the internet

  • j45 6 hours ago

    "Max Power" - https://frinkiac.com/video/S10E13/wRtZ0QdDirXfWVwbdZ3jU_8NAE...

    Can't find other clips by quote.

    Sometimes Grandpa talking about wearing an onion on his belt is important.

    It would be great to add the meme mode to the gif rendering so it was captioned.

  • j45 7 hours ago

    Very cool.

    "Max Power" - https://frinkiac.com/video/S10E13/wRtZ0QdDirXfWVwbdZ3jU_8NAE...

    Can't find other clips by quote.

    Sometimes Grandpa talking about wearing an onion on his belt is important.

  • TYPE_FASTER 8 hours ago

    mmmmm cromulent

  • TZubiri 8 hours ago

    You know, I tried to look for source code or a downloadable database, to play with a local fork, but I haven't found much.