I actually don’t particularly care about either one, but some people who hated corporate memphis must be seething at how it got replaced.
I hate corporate Memphis as well, but I do not get the meme.
From “Corporate Memphis” to “Corporate Mephistopheles”.
For those, like me, who have no idea:
Am I the only one that kind of like corporate Memphis?
I am not saying they are artistic, but minimalist. It purposely doesn’t have much details and depth so the viewer doesn’t really focus on it and just gets a pretty simple idea or emotion from it.
It’s like hating elevator music cause it’s not the type of music you would listen to recreationally.
I think the reason it’s hated is because of the “users” of this type of imagery (megacorporations) and the context it is used in. It is literally engineered, painted by numbers to make the ones displaying it seem more human(e), as having a soul, when its true purpose is to “increase engagement”. People hate it because this type of imagery is usually accompanied by slogans like “We value your privacy”, followed by a meter long paragraph describing all the ways they collect and use your data.
One of the reasons I’m pretty neutral on AI art is that it mostly replaced even more soulless stuff like corporate Memphis.
Clip art was peak corporate graphic design.
Corporate memphis would’ve been fine if it wasn’t - you know - corporate. If it had lined the halls of youth hostels like those dancy rubber guys it would’ve been just another quirky minimalist art style.
What dancy rubber guys are you thinking of? Have an example?
Keith Haring was the guy
I’m gonna guess Keith Haring
This is incredible
I hated corporate Memphis.
Now I hate AI art.
I still hate corporate Memphis though, it’s still awful.
If AI is so smart why are the expressions different in each. Not only does the style change, but the tone and her emotion vary.
They all suck, but the top-right one in the AI-generated section grinds my gears down to the atomic level. I can’t begin to explain the pure undiluted hatred I feel for slop extruded in that style.
Even AI crap is better than that utter garbage.
Don’t worry, they are one and the same now
Fuck you, one day I’ll have something like this.
Pee-wee’s-playhouse-core
I’m expecting Cowboy Curtis to bust in and then see all the furniture yelling at the word of the day.
I love the original Memphis. It feels like I’m on a weird 90s spaceship
Or just in the Telly Tubbies dome
Legally Distinct Tardis.
“Corporate Memphis” is just a particular art style that people dislike. “AI-generated images” is not an art style. I assume AI could generate something in Corporate Memphis style if you wanted it to. No one is replacing human-generated Corporate Memphis art with AI-generated art in another style. People choose Corporate Memphis for a reason. If anything, they might choose to use AI-generated Corporate Memphis now that the option exists. But people who would previously use human-generated Corporate Memphis art are not using AI-generated art in some other style now.
People choose Corporate Memphis for a reason
I always assumed that reason was that it was cheap.
I didn’t know it was called Corporate Memphis! I actually prefer it to endless dead-eyed stock photos, personally. At least someone was experimenting or focused on a goal when making it.
