If tales of political dynasties squaring off for the presidency and a billionaire trying to bully his way to the nomination aren't enough 2016 presidential election stories for you, a new app allows users to animate their own.
With its recently-introduced politics patch, Plotagon users can build animated characters that walk around the Oval Office, give speeches and shout over each other during debates. Plotagon is a video animation app that allows users to create characters and place them in interesting situations.
"It's a tool to express your beliefs and talk about different things, and one of those can be politics," Karin Wahlström, chief marketing officer at Plotagon, told Mashable.
Plotagon is targeted toward English-speaking regions, Wahlström said -- mainly the United States and the United Kingdom. The company thought introducing a politics package would be a good way to get people tweeting about it and posting about it on Facebook, and that it'd be something people could use for well into the next year.
The app doesn't generate the most human-like animations and the speech patterns of its characters can make them seem as though they're talking terminators.
But this politics package is meant to be fun, and the robotic monotone of the characters can sometimes be a sweet addition. That's according to T.J. Chambers, a comedian who used the app to create a short story about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton sneaking in to redecorate the Oval Office while President Barack Obama was away, which you can watch below.
"There are times where you hope it would sound more natural and smooth, but a lot of times the humor comes from the way it's modulated," Chambers told Mashable. He said users can still play around with punctuation to tweak the audio. "It becomes almost like a fun separate game to get it to sound the way you want it."
Chambers hopes the app turns into a way for users to build extended memes. In his mind, some memes could become videos that play out common thoughts in place of the simple pictures overlaid with text that are shared all over the Internet.