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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. Then came the minor setback in the plot.

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Netflix is turning viral Thanksgiving Mom tweet into a movie

The Verge

Perhaps most notably, Zola turned viral Twitter thread #TheStory into a surprisingly good feature-length movie. As ever, Know Your Meme has the definitive rundown of Hinton and Dench’s viral story. The Thanksgiving Text is the latest example of a film drawing inspiration from viral online content.

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Old memes are Bill Murray, dodging them is Tilda Swinton

The Verge

One of the photos from this Cannes photo shoot has been widely memed. I have a suggestion that I think most of the internet will be able to get behind — and we know the internet never collectively agrees on anything, so hear me out here: a way to block memes that are past their expiration date. Please make it stop.

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Examining AMC’s ‘embarrassingly stupid’ investment in a literal gold mine

The Verge

It’s a baffling investment for a movie theater chain, enough so that one analyst we spoke to called it a “complete misuse of shareholder capital.”. Aron himself acknowledged that “one would not normally think that a movie theatre company’s core competency includes gold or silver mining.”. It’s embarrassingly stupid. Pachter said. “I

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Please GameStop it, Hollywood

The Verge

So you’re making movies — four of them — and a TV show. As of Friday, February 5th: HBO now has a movie from the guy who wrote Too Big to Fail and co-created Showtime’s Billions. The writer and director of Console Wars (a book, also a movie) now have a feature-length documentary that’s “fully financed and already in production”.

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AMC is now letting you buy movie tickets with Dogecoin

The Verge

Bitpay also supports cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, but AMC has let movie-goers buy tickets with those for a few months now through PayPal.

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Tracking the Currion Meme

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That could be the title of a thriller movie or mystery novel. He started the meme about asking for NGO related resources by pushing it out to Nancy White , Hell's Dire Agent , Jennine , Taran , and Declan. Blame Paul Currion who blogs at humanitarian.info. Nancy tagged Joitske , Brit , and me.

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