Flesh emoji NFTs: When four trends collide

Ugh. Somebody stop this. We’re mixing and matching trends, and it isn’t pretty. Behold: Flesh emojis for sale. This horrible turn of events on Twitter is the result of four trends combined:

1. Emojis

2. Artificial intelligence that gives cartoonish emojis human-like skin

3. NFTs

4. AI that animates still photos

Richard Wilkinson @rjwilx

In a heroic act of procrastination, I've spent the last hour putting emojis through a neural network to make them human. Enjoy your nightmares 😬

This seems to be part of a trend where people force themselves to make “art every day.”

365AED @365_aed

#FleshEmoji #artEveryDay #day3 A series of emoji fed through a neural network designed to turn sketches of people into photorealistic images. I had no idea this would work. I think I hate them.

So then of course these are available for sale as NFTs, for some reason:

365AED @365_aed

Due to popular demand, the first batch of #FleshEmoji #NFT are now available. 35 unique emoji in total will be released.

opensea.ioAED #FleshEmoji Marketplace on OpenSea: Buy, sell, and explore digital assets#FleshEmoji is the inaugural NFT project from the art collective ArtEveryDay. Each artwork is based on the Unicode emoji faces, with each one being fed through a neural network trained on human faces. The result mixes the textural qualities of human faces with the iconic expressions of emoji used al…

And of course, somebody has to animate one:

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@rjwilx Animated. I regret nothing.