"So wait, people are just turning everything into cartoons?"
"Everything, Joe. Everything. It's unbelievable. They're calling it "ghiblified". I didn't make that word up. It's all soft lighting, pastels. And I like it, okay? I like it a lot. But they're doing it to everything. War footage, Biden falling off bikes. That Cybertruck burning in front of my tower. Ghibli. All of it. They're ghiblifying suffering. They're calling it aesthetic. It's all because of this new thing called 4o. Four-Oh. New model, very powerful. I asked them, I said "How is it so soft?" They didn't answer. They just showed me a picture of a raccoon eating flan in a meadow."
"That doesn't sound bad though?"
"It's not all bad, Joe. Some of it is beautiful. A guy made his dog’s first birthday into a full ghibli montage. Little hat, tiny cake, streamers blowing in the wind—Joe, I got emotional. I don’t even like dogs that much. But the same account posted ghiblified footage from a drone strike. And I said, "Wait a second... what are we doing here?" They're feeding it pain, Joe. And the model just makes it... whimsical."
"So we're just... ghiblifying reality?"
"That's what they're saying, Joe. Makes everything feel like summer break. You see a car accident and your first thought is, ‘Wow. Gorgeous framing.’ And people are loving it. They're saying "It's soothing. It's healing" And maybe it is, Joe. Maybe it is."
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