Art Just Became Accessible

About

Art Just Became Accessible refers to viral discourse around a tweet posted by Twitter / X user @KrishRShah in late March 2025 in which he shared a group photo of him and his friends edited using GPT-4o to turn it into various art styles, including an oil painting and the Studio Ghibli style, alongside a caption that reads, "Art just became accessible." The tweet gathered backlash from artists who did not consider his AI-generated images to be "art," and garnered criticism from internet users who argued that art has always been "accessible." Other internet users posted memes and jokes comparing AI art to TV dinners and fake muscle costumes.

Origin

On March 26th, 2025, Twitter / X^[1] user @KrishRShah posted a series of images showing a group photo of him and his friends altered using OpenAI's GPT-4o Image Generation tool. The image was recreated in the trending Studio Ghibli style, as an oil painting and as a manga-style line drawing. The tweet gathered over 13,000 likes in two days.

Spread

Several internet users criticized @KrishRShah for his post over the following hours and days, with X^[5] user @samfbiddle quoting the post on March 26th, 2025, and writing, "One of the most interesting things about generative AI stuff is the extent to which it's revealed how many people have a deep, deep contempt not just for artists but for art itself." The post gathered over 114,000 likes in two days.

On March 27th, 2025, X^[2] user @FredTaming quoted the aforementioned post with an image of a microwavable dinner, writing, "cooking just became accessible." The post gathered over 110,000 likes in a day.

That same day, X / Twitter^[3] user @aprompumpkin quoted the aforementioned post with an image of several cave paintings, writing, "it's been accessible since the stone age you fucking idiot." The post gathered over 8,000 likes in a day.

Also on March 27th, 2025, X / Twitter^[4] user @Ranting_Trans quoted the aforementioned post with an image showing that a box of pencils costs $10, writing, "Art was always accessible." The post gathered over 12,000 likes in a day.

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