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‘Disaster Girl’ has sold her popular meme as an NFT for $500,000

The Verge

Another internet meme has sold for big bucks online: Zoë Roth, best known as “ Disaster Girl ” for the popular image macro taken by her father in 2005 of her smirking at the camera while a house burns down in the background, has sold the original copy of the meme as an NFT for 180 Ether, worth almost $500,000. Photo: David Roth.

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Fitness influencers morning routine goes viral for all the wrong reasons

Mashable Tech

We’re talking full performance art levels of routine here — a six-hour odyssey that begins at 3:50 a.m. Social media has been lit up with memes, stitches, and general bewilderment. This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed. and ends at 9:30 a.m. The reactions? Predictably savage.

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ChatGPT Starts Blocking Studio Ghibli-Style Images After Trend Goes Viral

Futurism

Right after OpenAI debuted its new GPT-4o image generation capabilities , tech bros flooded the internet with AI-made cartoons and memes imitating the style of the iconic Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli. The wave of ersatz Ghibli art was inescapable in AI spheres. One particularly viral example depicted JFK's assassination.

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Nyan Cat is being sold as a one-of-a-kind piece of crypto art

The Verge

Chris Torres, the artist behind Nyan Cat, has remastered the original animation and will be selling it through the crypto art platform Foundation. Buyers of these works get the privilege of “owning” a piece of digital art — to the limited extent one can really own an endlessly reproducible image file.

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ChatGPT gained one million new users in an hour today

Engadget

One of the more visible examples have been the many memes image inspired by the animation style of Studio Ghibli. Many of these people have their work taken, either as training material for the large-language model scraped from the internet or improperly taken and modified by ChatGPT users, without any credit or compensation.

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Twitter is ruining the open for surprise meme with better image crops

The Verge

Those pictures should also be clearer, given Twitter’s recent update to 4K images — because some art just needs to be seen as clear as possible. And hey, if you want to see those memes, it seems like the web version of Twitter on desktops is still susceptible. Hide on, tiny cat. Tweet: @ademYz_. I’m on my phone, you can’t fool me.

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Rivian’s mega IPO is a good test of the meme stock craze

The Verge

Tesla’s status as a meme stock has helped propel the Bay Area-based (and soon to be Austin, Texas-based) company’s share price into the stratosphere and make its CEO Elon Musk one of the richest people in the world. Which is not to say being a meme stock is a safe space to occupy. What a crazy year.”.

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