Ghibli-style AI art goes viral with 100x surge in half a day, fueled by new GPT-4o features
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Ghibli-style AI art goes viral with 100x surge in half a day, fueled by new GPT-4o features
The "most advanced image generator," which even rival Musk came to applaud, has a particularly insightful take on anime.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsBy 0xFacai
Since last night into this morning, social media platforms such as X have suddenly been flooded with meme images strikingly similar in style to films by Hayao Miyazaki. For instance, the following "ultra-universal" meme—already widely popular across the internet—has taken on a fresh charm and vitality when rendered in the "Ghibli style."
Of course, classic anime scenes and iconic moments have also joined this "remastering feast," turning into dark humor memes like "Vance says thanks" or "planes crashing into buildings."
At the same time, a meme coin named $Ghibli has gone into overdrive on-chain. Since its launch yesterday at 6 PM, it has surged continuously, skyrocketing in market cap amid widespread hype this morning. At the time of writing, its valuation has surpassed $24 million, with a 24-hour gain exceeding 10,824%.
What’s Happening? What is Ghibli?
All of this can be credited to the newly launched GPT-4o feature.
Tuesday saw OpenAI roll out the built-in image generator within GPT-4o—an official release described as “the most advanced image generator to date,” featuring a native multimodal architecture capable of “precise, accurate, and realistic outputs.” Users quickly discovered that this image generator excels particularly at replicating the anime aesthetic of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli.
On Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman kicked off the “Ghibli virus” trend on X, even changing his profile picture to a Ghibli-style illustration.
Soon after, numerous Twitter influencers followed suit, uploading their own Ghibli-rendered portraits. Even Elon Musk, founder of Grok AI and a rival to OpenAI, chimed in on his image-posting tweet: “This is today’s theme.”
While ChatGPT previously allowed users to generate images from text prompts, it did so by routing them to a separate OpenAI model, DALL-E 3.
The reason GPT-4o is labeled “O” is because it stands for “Omni”—a model trained not only on text and code but also on images, audio, and video. This enables GPT-4o to understand all these media types and their interrelations, generating appropriate content directly based on user input without relying on external models.
Recently, AI giants have been fiercely competing in image generation. Google has also recently updated Gemini 2.0 Flash with an experimental image creation model. Clearly, having AI act as your personal artist—one that fully understands your vision—is becoming remarkably simple.
However, Hayao Miyazaki, co-founder of Studio Ghibli, has previously expressed strong opposition to AI-generated animation. During a 2016 event, upon viewing an AI-animated demo, Miyazaki stated: “I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make something creepy, go ahead. I never wish to incorporate this technology into my work,” adding that he considers it “an insult to life itself.”
How to Create Your Own Ghibli Art?
First, navigate to chat.com or chatgpt.com, ensuring you are using a GPT Plus, Pro, or Team account with the model selector set to “GPT-4o.”
Use the “+” button located at the bottom-left corner of the prompt box to upload an image, then instruct the new GPT-4o with image-generation capabilities to “redraw this image in the style of a Ghibli animated film.” You may upload multiple images and ask GPT-4o to merge them into one cohesive piece in Ghibli style. Experiment freely—the GPT-4o model will likely surprise you.
Of course, the associated meme token $Ghibli merely leverages the artistic aesthetics of Studio Ghibli alongside the trending wave of AI-generated content. Its rapid popularity on Twitter stems largely from attention alone. However, information about the team behind the token remains unclear at present, and investors should exercise caution regarding potential risks.
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