• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    4 hours ago

    The text also being soft indicates that’s a style choice.

    This is misusing a pejorative to turn specific criticism into general prejudice. Say ‘I hate slop’ and you’ll get near-universal agreement, but people who mean ‘fuck all uses of AI’ are not even the majority. The pattern of retreating from ‘I hate how it looks’ to ‘quality doesn’t matter!’ is straight-up pretense.

    It’s a low-stakes opportunity to examine how language escalates tension. People in that absolute extreme position are emboldened. People merely tired of shrimp Jesus or whateverthefuck get lumped with them. All nuance is stomped out of this important new term, originally for ‘uncurated spam.’

    • Derpykat5@ttrpg.network
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      3 hours ago

      Maybe so, and maybe I’m interpreting Coopr wrong.

      But on the quality of the image itself… it’s not much of a meme in my eyes. It’s a relatively simple character, the only goofy thing about them is that they’re a frog. The caption doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, and neither the caption, character, or scenery seems to relate to each other. Maybe I’m just unfamiliar with “modern humor” (so to speak) but I just don’t get it.