The 70 Best Studio Ghibli Memes (so far)
We scoured the internet and compiled the best studio ghibli memes -- iconic photos, classic memes, famous movie scenes, and meta ghiblis.
The Era of Ghibli Has Arrived
Nothing will ever be the same.
This week, ChatGPT released a new feature that turns any image into a Studio Ghibli-style animation (aka anime).
🤔 How does it work?
You paste a photo into chatgpt and put the prompt:
“make it studio ghlibli style. keep all details.”
That’s it.
First, we got recreations of all the classic memes:
⚠️ WARNING: Going forward, some of these memes get pretty dark. But that’s kinda the funny thing about this studio ghibli style — it makes any photo feel fun and heartwarming.
Then, we got some classic movie scenes:
Then, the best part. We got ghiblis of the most iconic photos on the internet from the past few years
Raygun breakdances at the Olympics:
Chill Turkish guy shoots at the Olympics:
Merkel gives Trump the business:
Guy stands down tanks at Tiananmen Square:
Hillary and Kamala on election night:
JD Vance at the VP Debate:
Stalin disappears a guy:
Elon puffing on Joe Rogan:
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang signs tiddies:
Roof Koreans protect their stuff during the L.A. riots:
O.J. Simpson tries on the leather gloves:
Trump works at McDonalds:
Product Managers work from home:
Product Managers make tiktok:
Elon balances his fork:
Biden sniffs kid’s head:
David Guetta ends racism:
Zuck peeps cleavage and Trump inaugeration:
Hillary enters totally normal apartment, is horrified:
*To be fair to hillary, there were plants growing out of the sink.
Trump touches orb with Saudi King:
Wright brothers achieve flight:
Trump serves McDonalds at the White House:
Trump Drinks Diet Coke And Stares in the Other Direction as Hillary Clinton Speaks:
Osama Bin Laden makes an announcement:
Trump goes on Joe Rogan:
Justin Trudeau does blackface:
Bonnie Blue breaks record for banging most most dudes:
Trump survives assassination attempt:
Trump does Miami Vice:
Paul Graham looks at you:
Trump and JD bully Zelenskyy:
Trump hangs with Epstein:
Epstein poses with Ghislaine:
Ghislaine hangs with a prominent magazine editor:
Bryan Johnson says goodnight:
Elon’s Roman Salute:
👉 SIDE NOTE: looking through these pics, you might think I’m a trump guy, but I’m really not. It’s just that his team has produced a lot more iconic photos than the other guys.
Elon with Lil X:
Bernie wears cute gloves to Biden inauguration:
Trump swing around a sword at his inauguration:
Bush does 9/11:
Then we started to get these meta ghiblis:
My twitter feed was 95% ghibli memes for an entire day:
Sam Altman chimes in and gets burned:
Me today while writing this piece:
Now, the interesting part..
Here’s Nikita Bier saying something smart:
One last ghibli..
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This was interesting to look at! To me though, the irony of using GenAI to mimic Ghibli, a studio explicitly dedicated to the warmth of hand-drawn humanity, is palpable. It looks cool on the surface, but feels hollow knowing how it was built. CODA (also represents Nintendo, Bandai Namco, and Square Enix) sent a letter to OpenAI in November threatening to sue if they don't stop training on their art, it'll be interesting to see how that goes.