AI slop?
People are downvoting but search for the template. This looks like AI was used to alter the image https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/283/449/abc.jpg her face is all kinds of messed up
this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2026
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Wtf, I'm so used to the template that I didn't even notice her face! What was even the point in changing it?
You do post often so I imagined it was an honest mistake. I didnt notice at first too, but yeah, people are fucking lazy to use AI for this.
Yeah, 100% just didn't notice. I honestly wonder if the person who made this version even realized it or if they grabbed an AI-fried template without noticing. Or if it was made, then someone tried to "improve" it between then and the time I found it.
Ugh. I wonder if I should just delete.
I think maybe just edit the title? Don't know the procedure here tbh. Btw, thanks for all the content you post, you keep many communities alive!
Good idea. I'll edit and put a note in the body at least.
And it's my pleasure. I just really want to see federated social media make it.
AI slop.
Except it's probably not. It's an established meme template.
Edit: My mistake. The faces are different, so while it's technically possible someone manually changed it, AI seems more likely.
Except that the meme template is not shit like the one posted by OP
OP has used AI to modify the image, and that explain all the weird artifacts
You're right. I looked at the 'know your meme' page pre-coffee and thought the faces matched with one of the examples, but I was mistaken.
Even faces aside, the comic title and artist's name got messed up too.
Check it out. It’s the Mona Lisa!
Bonus: Starry Night
That's not the Mona Lisa uncultured Metarthian! (No really, don't use threads). Here it is in its full splendor, rejoice!
Colors all sepia, bro. Girl looks mad jaundiced.
And who’s using threads?
My heart almost stopped when i saw your name and then i realized
I always hope people get a little giggle out of the realization!
You def made me giggle, i was like "threads? Huh what a generic- oh wait...that's meta slop?! WE ARE COOKE- click on profile oooh, it's the display name"
Very funny name.
I see this quite often, I suspect some default Gallery app just AI-upscales downloaded images without users' knowledge. Someone downloads a thumbnail accidentally, it gets the AI treatment, you get major artifacting like this and they repost it somewhere else. I most often notice it on images of text, when all the letters are wobbly.
~~Nah, just a normal variation on a template.~~
Edit: now that you point that out, it looks like it has been changed. I wasn’t looking closely at the panels/not that familiar with the detail of the OG but actually comparing I think you’re right. If I had to guess the intention was to have AI make the HL3 logo but it changed other panels besides just that one. Boo.
It’s pretty cooked though. Almost all the detail is jpeg’d away. It’s also possible they used the source as a reference image and had AI replace part of it, which would explain the AI-like artifacts.
Nope, look at the signature in the bottom left of the first panel. It’s AI.
I want to know more about Esther Verkest.
Hands in the 8th panel got messed real good by the AI slopifier.
Do we really care if AI was used in altering a meme template?
It looks disgusting and its the laziest use of AI I've ever seen. Not to mention it fucking up the artist's signature
Is there weird compression or did the artist intentionally change up her eyes from the original?
Edit: Actually her hands are funky in some of these panels, did this get crunched through an AI filter?
Yup. Look at the signature in the first panel.
Who doesn't know esther ideesigreet
With just a tiny bit of image software use nobody would've definitively known that this was AI-modified. Cut out the frame -> AI-modify -> put back in.
It's an old meme, sir...