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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. Many have uploaded personal photos to be redrawn into a still from a Ghibli movie.

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New on SSIR: Are we addicted to Slacktivism?

Amy Sample Ward

According to ABC news : According to the trend-tracking website Know Your Meme , the cartoon fad started with Facebook users in Greece and Cyprus in mid-November. The purpose of this game is to remove all photos of human for a few days from Facebook.&#. Sure, it’s slacktivism but what the hey… it was fun.&#.

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AMC is giving free popcorn away to meme stonk investors

The Verge

Photo by AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images. AMC, though, they’ve elected to really embrace the whole meme thing. I’m hoping there are more announcements where they get meme-ier. Meme enthusiasm essentially saved the company. A lot of the meme stocks are shooting up again. CNBC even has a “meme stock” graphic now.

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Google and Nickelback really want you to look at your photographs

The Verge

Nickelback has created a parody version of its own song “Photograph” for a new Google Photos ad, and it’s a lot more entertaining than you might suspect. The ad’s lyrics and photos touch on Kroeger’s “noodle hair” and his passion for photographing dessert.

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New on SSIR: You can has memesez?

Amy Sample Ward

That song, “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen, quickly also became the soundtrack to an Internet meme —that is, an idea that spreads online (“ I Can Has Cheezburger? Many more groups joined in on the fun, recording videos and posting to YouTube. Why meme at all? It’s fun, for one. Stick to your voice.

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Now you can determine your level of Fauci with this handy meme

The Verge

Photo by Al Drago / Pool / Getty Images. So to lighten the mood and get the students interested, she and her co-instructor Reece Lyerly start every class with a meme of some sort. The hardest photo to find was one of Fauci full-on smiling, she notes. But she says that one’s even less scientific than the five-photo chart.

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Slacktivism: Can Cartoons Raise Awareness or Just Make Us Feel Good?

NetWits

In an effort to raise awareness for child abuse, thousands of Facebook users changed their profile photos to one of their favorite childhood cartoon characters (full disclosure: mine was Underdog.) Whether it started on accident, was part of a specific campaign, or originated in Greece , this meme seemed to really have legs!

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