Id rather have a crap mouse-drawn MSPaint image over slope any day
this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2025
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Forgot the crop for authentication.
Perfection
That’s what I’m talking about! :D
My banana!
Keep it shitty, stay punk
Because the clumsy crops and editing are amusing and charming.
AI slop is just dumb, low effort, and often unnervingly weird in a bad way.
Yes, going to imgflip.com/memegenerator, selecting an image and typing 10 words is so much more effort. You can practically taste the sweat and tears.
Atleast the meme maker makes a conscious decision about the template to use, instead of hitting a slots machine lever and hoping what they want comes out.
It's meant to be low effort and a bit shitty, any amount of polish is missing the point
I'm a part AI, part clumsily cropped meme type of guy who adds extra memosity:
A masterpiece!
Thank you! I didn't even try.
Truly a god of chaos!
I'm loving it. I can draw total crap in *Paint and nowadays people say "bless his soul, at least it's real".
Eh. Meme consumers are riding a pointless high horse on this one. On one hand yes there is arguably a human aspect to manual creation thats lost and theres still plenty of screwups in generated details if you look closely. On the other hand memes and edited silly cat pictures are not high art, they're the low effort fast food quick consumption equivalent of images. We call them shitpost, I mean come on.
The whole point of an image is to activate a series of neurons in your brain that excite certain patterns to convey information to you. The whole point of a meme is to do this to convey humor or a poorly vieled political message with little creation efforts and high resharability.
In the beforefore times you had to actually paint and color by hand on a piece of paper, make models and set pieces out of materials like clay, cut up printed pictures to stitch them together.
Then we could digitize everything, create models and animations with clicks of the button, edit images easily through software, and share our creations effortlessly. This lead to the rise of the Internet's first generation of memes with stuff like the dancing baby and flashgrounds references and caption memes.
Now its completely effortless with machine learning models trained to create images/sounds/videos from simple sentence instructions. It probably my takes a minute for someone to instruct image models to boilerplate an acceptable picture through typing a few keywords, or import an existing image and instruct edits. All without the need to learn the ins and outs of image manipulation software, 3d modeling software, ect.
Why spend an hour to make an edit in gimp for maybe a few dozen people to look at it once, go "heh" and immediately forget about it as they doomscroll past.
Unlike most jerkasses with an armchair opinion ive actually cooked some comics and memes in my day for the internets consumption. Sometimes Ive spent way longer than I should have in gimp just to make a funny edit. I'm happy these tools exist to let people engage with visual creation on their own terms. If you don't have time or hardware for learning gimp to crop a meme I won't be on my high horse telling you that your bad and your images are fundamental wrong just because you had a computer/model boilerplate it for you from some keyword prompting. Fuck em, they get the slop they deserve to consume.
Is this meme that you posted to this community an hour prior not AI generated?
Sry yes changed the picture:
If there was ever an instance where the bourgeoisie where correct, it’s the ones in this picture
10^10000 times funnier
I'm no dictionary, but I think they should only be called a meme if they actually catch on, ie. become memetic
That was the original intent, yes. Something that had gone viral and could be adapted to different things.
Then lazy people (and probably ignorant of Internet culture) decided to call anything they shared a meme (not even funny things, I mean anything) so they could feel included.
Now we have multiple meme comms saturated with things that aren't memes... Or funny, but it doesn't matter because people have no desire for quality. We're no different from reddit in that aspect.
Ask AI to make you a PowerPoint. Diletantism is back 😂.
Or once I explained an entire process to it and said now make a flow diagram. You can imagine what a fever dream that diagram was.
True, memes aren't author literature. They work because they relate to others and/or invite to be related to. AI memes stand for themselves and aren't memes in any meaningful sense.