For the past few days, the internet has been going mad over a new trend that has taken over the entire world and has forced almost every social individual to be a part of it. This trend involves turning their pictures and snapshots into Studio Ghibli-style animation and posting them back on the internet in order to gain views, likes, and comments from the masses.
Studio Ghibli is one of the biggest animation studios in the world, co-founded by the legendary Hayao Miyazaki along with Toshio Suzuki, Isao Takahata, and Yasuyoshi Tokuma. The studio has created some of the greatest anime movies in the world, including The Boy and The Heron, Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, Ponyo, etc.
The unique animation of Studio Ghibli has recently become wildly popular because of the ongoing trend, but what fans don’t realize is that this trend is a direct hit to the anime industry. This is because it is everything that Ghibli and its founders stand against, and the people who are joining this trend are the same people who used to criticize the anime community.
The new AI Studio Ghibli art style trend
Since the wave of Artificial Intelligence has hit the world, new trends and swings have started becoming popular, and one of the most recent ones is the AI Studio Ghibli art style trend. A few days ago, the internet suddenly started flooding with animated posts and images of social media users that they generated using AI, and their speciality was that they all were animated in Studio Ghibl’s art style.
This trend quickly became a global sensation, and almost every individual who has a presence on social media started using AI tools and websites to transform their pictures into Studio Ghibli-style art. Even Open AI’s ChatGPT allowed its users to get along with the trend and jump on the bandwagon of AI and animation involving Studio Ghibli.
From social media influencers to celebrities, everyone got involved with the drift of AI being used to create animation, which has already been a contentious topic within the anime industry for a long time. It has been a few days since the trend started, and it is only growing bigger with each passing day.
The new Ghibli trend is everything the industry stands against
Although the new AI Ghibli art style trend feels exciting and intriguing in terms of social media presence, it might be the worst nightmare for the creators and founders of Studio Ghibli. This is speculated from the fact that Hayao Miyazaki, one of the founders of Studio Ghibli, has expressed his hatred towards AI on multiple fronts.
Thus, to use his art style and link it with AI tools in order to generate animation and make a trend feels like a blow to the face. Aside from that, what’s even sadder is that the social media wave that used to criticize and hate on Japanese anime style by comparing it to children’s cartoons is the same wave that is now following this trend rigorously.
It is, in many ways, a direct hit to the anime industry and Studio Ghibli. And while it might look like the trend is helping the community, it is only degrading the legacy of the many creators and animators who put their heart and soul into creating world-class animation every day.
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