[WP:63] Pink Flyod? More Like PINK BOILED [A PR Disaster Masterclass]
Introduction
You can read the original thread here.
If you're not a boomer, what even is Pink Flyod?
Well it might be many things but to few it's one of those things that you simply can't escape.
You probably know a dozen annoying friends who rant about how visionary they are...
The 👉Tweet announcing the AI animated👈 video winning the official Pink Flyod contest.
That statement sure aged like milk.
In a spectacular example of WHAT NOT to do to appear hip with the TikTok Gen Z kids... The poor bastard intern in charge of the official Twitter account of the band kicked the hornet's nest and well over 5000 accounts dog piled their post featuring arguably the ugliest AI piece.
AI & Its Stench Of Trouble
You gotta have succeeded or failed spectacularly at something on twitter dot com to have the intern at @operagxofficial to chime in.
But it gets worse...
One of the participants in the 100 000 pounds prize pool for the animated submission expressed their disgruntlement.
Their viral status is shocking considering their account is notoriously shadowbanned for explicit adult content.
User/TheInsaneum states:"...Sad AI won..."
Artist & Animator 👉TheInsaneum👈 stated on the outcome of the contest.
“Im pretty sad an AI entry won for a different song though. Im sorry to all the people who put real effort into making a video just to loose to AI.“
Public Enemy Number 1: Who Is Damián Guame?
The artist's current partner, User/vKyoosh, was quick to point out that the contestant in question spent well over 6 months (half a year’s time) for the resulting expertly animated short film.
The now viral post has nearly 50 000 likes.
But who is the winner in question everyone's mad about?
Meet the AI genius in chief, (User/DamianGaume) Damián Guame, self described musician & 3D artist.
Who as of the date of this post, has won the official animation contest.
Artists such as User/adamtotscomix, User/JasonRainville, & User/RubberNinja had some "words of encouragement".
RubberNinja:”Yeah, that looks like dog shit.”
JasonRainville:”Lazy scammer makes the art stealing machine generate the sloppiest nonsense you've ever seen and gets selected over hand made animation.
‘The technique I used was that auto generated Facebook memories video collage’
Legit embarassing.”
adamtotscomix:”Looks like dogshit.”
Conclusion
To top it all off.
The panel of judges for the competition included:
- Nick Mason
- Kyle Alba
- Gerald Scarfe
- Sarah Smith
- Daisy Jacobs
- Harry Pearce
- Terry Gilliam
- Alan Yentob
- Anton Corbijn
It's interesting to note that all these folks are very influential.
User/vivipooh_ succinctly states:"Fuck AI"
and deservingly so.
The organizers, judges & even Pink Flyod themselves are wildly out of touch.
Just another cheap attempt at cashing in on the AI hype.
An embarrassment for the world of art, music and human expression.