It's because the internet is dominated by us furries and this was not only not AI, it was furry media.
this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2025
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I didn’t think I’d see a time where people would be thrilled over an advertisement. This was the norm four years ago and no one was jubilant.
There were dozens and dozens of TV ads back in the day that found their way into pop culture.
"Where's the beef!"
Budweiser frogs
Wasssuuuppp!
Old Spice's "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like,"
The Crying Indian
I could go on all afternoon.
The Most Interesting Man In the World
Trunk Monkey ...
Superbowl ads have been a pop culture phenomenon for decades.
I have no idea what that is.
Well I try not to advertise it too much anymore, but it is the final round of our annual tournament today, so this is the best time to check it out....
2025 SuperbOwl Owl of the Year Final Round: Buffy Fish Owl vs Screech Owl
Great response, i like owls!
Those are some spiffing owls.
Well we have narrowed it down from around 250 to our two favorites at this point so I would hope so 🙂
I was hoping you were going to do exactly this, nice!
It is on topic...no AI in Owl of the Year.
We're big enough I try not to spam anymore, but this was just begging for it.
I think the Superbowl is some sports game thing in the US. Probably football.
Is that the hand egg thing?
I've been watching Cannes Lions Awards for years, they show creative ads and most of them are hilarious.
Then they wanted to have a photo booth in every supermarket where AI would add the wolf next to you, and then cancelled the idea after backlash
“It’s a matter of consistency in our message regarding AI,” a company representative explained. “We want our position to be clear. We discovered that the project with Photomaton was using AI, which directly contradicted the message of our previous advertising campaign.”
Tbh, I don't see the harm in this. Photobooth are a great use for gen AI. Not like someone was sitting in the booth drawing it by hand before that.
Wouldn't be harmful except its all completely stolen data and any data fed into it is completely insecure and open to the hands of the Altmans of the world (who publicly stated that the poors should be destroyed). You want that?
I was messing with AI before the generative part of it made everyone go sour on it so I've always seen it as highly transformative. I also have a deep hate for copyright companies and media hoarding juggernauts.
I think the best would be to have an open ecosystem instead of a locked gate with companies like Disney and Shutterstock holding the keys.
Im pretty sure even the big AI companies are salivating at lawsuits and legislations meant to lock out open source. Sam Altman doesn't mind spending a billion on data if it buys him a soft monopoly and lets him charge ridiculous prices for a few seconds of GPU time.
The greatest threat to AI companies is if products like the one above can directly run inference and cut out the middle man. Sam Altman and co want to basically tax every AI venture through subscription services and most of the population seems to be cheering them on without realising it.
Seeing it as stolen data is what will lead to your second point being the only option, essentially.
How did instagram filters work before AI?
Probably like camera face tracking before ‘AI’: rule based pattern detection for eyes, mouth, nose, then layering effects on top
Honestly the "new" tech is probably exactly the same and just rebranded as AI
Mignon!
So... Why draw the line at fish? The other animals aren't outraged if fish is killed? That's fucked.
Fish are food, not friends!
Pescatarian is a pretty common restrictive diet, mostly just leaves out land meat. It's not generally a diet based on the same reasons for being restrictive as vegetarian or vegan. While some people can arrive at it ideologically, like this commercial is displaying, it's more commonly a conclusion people would choose based on health concerns rather than ideology. And from what I could read from the french I saw, it does seem like despite the depictions in the cartoon, the message is something like " it doesn't matter how you arrive at a healthy diet, as long as you make the effort" or something like that. So it seems like they are more concerned with health generally than ideology.
But if you want to get creative, here's an ideological explanation. The forest critters government has spent decades if not centuries grievously 'other'ing fish to the point that their populace doesn't think of them as animals anymore. And their sex education is so attrocious that until any individual animal sees it for themselves, they have no idea where babies come from. And by then they are so traumatised by what they have already done to and with eggs that they can't bring themselves to accept the truth, they gaslight themselves into thinking that was a freak occurence.
Other animals can be racist too I guess.
What about the eggs? I doubt those were willingly gathered.
My thoughts exactly.
Setting aside the fact that wolves are obligate carnivores, what is the big deal? I don’t watch TV anymore but isn’t it normal for big companies to do Christmas special commercials?
The big deal is that they actually hired artists and recognize humans making things is important. Other big companies like McDonalds made AI generated slop for their ads.
You're not gonna believe this, but: Cartoonists can put whatever they want on the screen.
One time I watched a cartoon where this scientist turned himself into a pickle. Funniest shit I've ever seen.
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It's furry
Setting aside the fact that wolves are obligate carnivores
They are not.