Thank you!

I drew this at like 3am thank you.

I'll be more active someday, too.

ISAAAAAAAAAAAC

*STOMPS FOOT*

I know...I know...

Okay, how do I explain this?

So there's this video game called the Binding of Isaac, and last year, it recently had a big expansion released for it that not only brought over a popular mod to the base game but also added a bunch of new stuff and QOL improvements. One of the things brought over from the mod was a boss on the Mausoleum floor called the Siren. Her newfound exposure amongst a new generation of players ended up inspiring a lot of smut and fetish stuff (most notably BBW) that would sometimes find their way onto video game threads on 4chan. I once drew a comic poking fun at prevalence of it in Isaac threads at the time.

THIS YEAR, somewhere around early September I think, a powerful open source AI image generator called Stable Diffusion was unleashed onto the internet. It caused a lot of ruckus amongst professional and amateur artists alike as some fans of the technology were parading it as something to replace artists or let them be artists themselves. Other conflicts of interest included the art that was being used to train the AI, whether or not AI art could really be considered art, how being able to generate thousands of works styled after currently living working artists could devalue their work and make them less sought after, how this could be used to generate deep fake pornography and threaten people for sensitive information, etc.

In a BBC article dramatically titled 'Art is Dead, Dude' it references a tweet by sci-fi artist Simon Stålenhag who called AI art "the kind of derivative, generated goo...our new tech overlords are trying to feed us."

The discussion surrounding AI would inevitably pop up in boards and threads on 4chan and eventually became a topic for flamewars and derision. It came up briefly in a thread for the Binding of Isaac and I thought it would be funny to make a drawing based off of the talk surrounding it and post it in the thread. I also thought that the term 'derivative goo' could easily be applied to that comic I drew that one time seeing as parodies are inherently derivative.

I drew this at like 3am, so of course my thought process for this drawing made like zero sense, but I'm still glad you tried to interpret something more from this than I could!