Now, TikTok is introducing a new AI-powered feature that feels even more meme-worthy. It's called AI Alive and it allows users to create short, stylized video clips from a static image.

In the early 2010s, meme culture still revolved around simple image macros and rage comics. You’d scroll through Reddit or Tumblr and find panels of crudely drawn characters, “Trollface ...

Archbishop of New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan condemned the meme image, which depicts President Donald Trump as a Pope and was posted on the president’s social media just days after the death of ...

White House communications official Kaelan Dorr re-posted the image, vowing that "the arrests will continue. The memes will continue." "They're leaning pretty heavily into meme culture and to ...

Playground even has AI templates to help you get started making your own memes. The realistic images rival subscription-level images of big tech chatbots. If you were disappointed by the news that ...

The tool allows users to transform images into the signature Ghibli animation style, leading to an explosion of anime-style posts. This surge in interest has fueled a boom in Ghibli-themed meme ...

OpenAI’s new image generator in GPT‑4o is producing viral Studio Ghibli-style artwork CEO Sam Altman joined in on the meme trend with a post joking about his Ghibli-ification Studio Ghibli co ...

While Miyazaki had expressed disgust and anger over AI-generated animation and art several years ago, this did not stop fans and anime watchers from turning memes, Bollywood images, and even crime ...

Technology media TechCrunch used multiple AI image generation tools, including Google's Gemini, xAI's Grok, and Playground.ai, to find out which AI could generate the most Studio Ghibli-like images.

We also are seeing the process of the native image generation model within the 4o model, turning that generated selfie into an "AGI meme." Sam Altman also teased that the native image generation ...

A new study examining meme creation found that AI-generated meme captions on existing famous meme images scored higher on average for humor, creativity, and "shareability" than those made by people.