I hate this so much. The part that really gets me is that it's "good" enough that it could absolutely serve as a low effort corporate slop factory for any outfit with a few tens of thousands in computer hardware to trivially churn out absolute garbage that would previously cost tens of thousands per episode at least, while still being completely useless in practice because it's still just a slop gacha. Like it's not a useful, production boosting tech that could also give low-budget creators a way to actually produce their vision (the way something like SFM did for enabling amateurs and hobbyists to start animating with no barrier to entry), it's a random slop generator that makes garbage only suitable for grifters and corporate slop factories.

Also the paired audio and visual generation getting that "good" is fucking horrifying for so many other reasons too. This is something that can only make everything worse, like those fucking chatbots that are poisoning everything.

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[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think it literally just boils down to the fact that it was a relatively popular pop culture thing when they were kids. The pop culture when they were kids was good because it was before The Woke, that's literally it.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

It's definitely this combined with a lack of media literacy (99% of the time) and/or a mental block they've set up to avoid thinking about it too hard (it's just a fun show/movie, why do you have to make it political!?).