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@AleRVG @topazlabs Yeah, looks great! Nice work! Thanks for sharing!

@rgXser Thanks! For this project at @topazlabs, I used Theia at 2k resolution and increased the FPS to 60 to make it look much smoother and more realistic.

Uncharted Life 2.0 🦠 ⚙️ Midjourney + Topaz

Would you make the journey?

Traits may have been made by drawing the pixel art but not all 10,000 pieces were individually made uniquely. They take all the traits and they mix and match them and layer them. For example, there are about 1100 that have eyes looking to the left. He did not redraw those eyes 1100 times. They get stacked generatively.

@rgXser @vangoyaa Actually the flower collection was made by hand, not generatively.

Takashi Murakami’s paintings sell for millions but his Flowers NFTs are sitting at 0.17 ETH (~$374). Is the digital/physical gap really this wide, or is this being mispirced?

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Speaking of @midjourney, I used MJ to create (discover?) this robot teacher for my content series “Attention Class” The videos using this character have 25k combined views on TikTok and climbing fast. MJ conversation mode let me test out 100+ characters for this concept in under an 45 minutes. Once I found the right one, I refined in other models and used it to build my scenes.

@JoeyMannarino The sad thing is most of it is probably for clicks and money anyway. When it’s not profitable they will move on. It’s a grift.

People knock me all the time for not calling out "the Jews". They call me a good little goyim and all the names. Honestly, I really don't hate Jews. Never have. I don't want to fake hate on a group just because it's the trendy thing to do. If I ever start to hate Jews for some reason or another, trust me, I'll be the first one to let you know... but I genuinely have no problem with them. They have a country the size of New Jersey? What's the problem? I'm Catholic. They never interfere with my life. Exactly what would I hate them as a blanket group for?

@BLVCKLIGHTai I got a check for $1.41 this month from OCME and it actually felt great to see a $ sign at all! 🤣

@Adam05296985 @midjourney Technically 5 were contractors 😜😜

@rgXser @midjourney 125 team members 🤣

The problem with @Midjourney isn't the models. It's the strategy. They've admitted they're small and bootstrapped. They can't win the realism race against well-funded competitors like NanoBanana and SeeDream. That's fine. But they're still trying to. That's the mistake. As a former founder who built a company to 125 team members, the cardinal sin of product strategy is trying to out-feature a better-capitalized competitor on their own turf. MJ has a real moat: creative-brainstorming and visual exploration. Their style blending, style reference tags, and conversation mode allow for some very powerful visual explorations (even with gaps in the quality of final outputs). No one else offers these features in any meaningful way. So go all in. Become the best visual ideation tool for artists on the planet. Integrate style codes directly into conversation mode. Let artists brainstorm in specific aesthetics at speed. Build the visual idea board no one else is building. And here's the obvious move: many MJ users pull outputs into NanoBanana to refine them. Make that handoff seamless (or even integrated!). Own the top of the creative workflow and partner for the bottom. Product strategy is about defining a moat and saying no to distractions while doubling down on strengths.

@Siggim @midjourney I totally agree. It is a completely different use case, in my opinion. They are both separate animals, and when people say that Midjourney can't do the things nanobanana can do, it's because they're probably not using it in the right way. Use nanobanana for those things!

Sounds like they are dealing with a huge marketing problem. Because Midjourney is being compared to nanobanana and they are getting loads of negative feedback. They have to be clear on their value proposition. If people think they are playing the same game as nanobanana, they will judge Midjourney based on nanobanana's strengths. My conclusion is that they lack clarity and value proposition. It is not a user issue if they misunderstand how Midjourney should be used and where it excels.

@midjourney Looking forward to seeing what you guys reveal! I still use Midjourney as a great brainstorming tool, but I do a lot of the heavy lifting and the other models. I do think you guys have some very unique features and angles for artists to explore.

@rgXser Almost all our features over the last year have been related to styles and visual exploration. Our new model is a major code clean-up and inference speed-up and speed is necessary for better creative exploration. There's more coming soon!

@SteveSkojec @midjourney It's been there for a while, actually, and it's one of the secret weapons!

@rgXser @midjourney Wait there’s a conversation mode now?

@nayverfayver For me it's identity. For some it's community. For the masses it's speculation.

What drives pfp loyalty? Art? Utility? Community?

As someone who used to work professionally with influencers in a past life, I can tell you that the pull of fame and attention is real. Most influencers I worked with were willing to project whatever version of them got the most views and likes and made the most money. Not true for everyone, but it's a real trap for many.

Sneako is one of the most insane cases of ideological radicalization ever seen He used to make really artistic social commentary videos on Youtube, And now he’s farming engagement by appealing to RADICAL EXTREMISTS in the middle of a tragic bloody war Literally caught him in 4k celebrating a building getting blown up by missiles (it was ai and he deleted the tweet) Imagine being so mentally weak that your mind gets captured by your third world bot audience Keep in mind this dude is literally from NYC, dude why tf are you even radicalized about this war in the first place And I used to be a fan. Like he’s one of my biggest inspirations ever. But he traded me for some dude in Somalia Hope it was worth it G

But I will say most platforms evaluate each content on its own and only a small percentage of your audience sees it so I try and think about creating a hook and keeping it flowing and making something shareable. Been more disciplined on those things the past month. I would rather go full artistic but gotta play to the algorithm on some level whether we like it or not (for short form at least vs film)

@rgXser That’s interesting. Are you getting much traction on TikTok? And do you feel you’re building an engaged audience, or is it quite random?

I see a lot of AI video creators expressing frustration with the platforms available to them right now. YouTube is where many of us post longer work, but a growing number of creators seem to be finding that their reach there isn't what it used to be. Most social channels are built for quick hits and virality, not for sitting down and watching a longer piece of work. Narrative films, music videos, surreal experiments; that kind of content doesn't seem to have a natural home yet, where creators can build and manage their profile. If a platform existed that was built specifically for discovering and watching longer form AI video, what would matter most to you? What would make you want to spend time there? A few things I keep coming back to: ▫️the ability to find work by mood or genre ▫️a way to follow creators whose artistic voice you connect with ▫️space for longer pieces that don't get punished by an algorithm designed for short clips Whether you make AI video or just enjoy watching it: what would pull you in?

My best video has 400k views and a few with 5k-10k and most get 500-2k but my audience is slowly growing. Took some time to get some formats and series that work and I still try and focus on things I want to make vs JUST playing to the algorithm. Instagram seems to be a little different beast and our audience is smaller there but my best video is close to 70k views. Here is my channel for @PSYCHONOT_X TikTok @psychonot_x" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tiktok.com/@psychonot_x Insta instagram.com/psychonot_x

@pzf_ai Yeah I’m not even focused on x for short form. TikTok first then instagram second then YouTube shorts third

Yes I think it's a catch-22 for many creators atm. It's disheartening when you put a lot of time into crafting a longer form piece and then it disappears because of the algorithm. I think X - overall - rewards short form content more. Not always. Some longer form pieces can do well, but it's very hit and miss.