About

Blue Egg Yolk Speedruns refers to a Photoshop speedrun trend where internet users change egg yolks in pictures of sunny-side fried eggs from orange or yellow to blue. The trend appeared online after X user @multimodalart posted a tweet promoting their AI image generation model "qwen-image," by claiming that "very few models can do things like 'a fried egg with a blue yolk.'" Several internet users and graphic designers pushed back on the need to use AI for simple tasks like changing the hue of an egg yolk, with X user @IsThisA3DModel claiming, "you can do this in Photoshop in like 30 seconds." This led to several internet users posting videos of them speedrunning egg yolk edits on Photoshop and various internet photo-editing apps.

Origin

On August 11th, 2025, X^[1] user @multimodalart posted a tweet promoting the AI image-generation tool "qwen-image," claiming that it "excels at following precise rule-breaking instructions" and that "very few models can do things like 'a fried egg with a blue yolk.'"

Also on August 11th, 2025, X^[2] user @IsThisA3DModel responded to a tweet by writing, "you can do this in Photoshop in like 30 seconds," gathering over 140,000 likes in four days.

On August 12th, X^[3] user @c_over_d_eq_pi posted a screen recording showing how they changed the color of a yolk from orange to blue in under five seconds, gathering over 1,000 likes in three days.

SUB 5!!
Blue yolk egg Any% WR pic.twitter.com/BFEkMP3PET

— Piiii🏳️‍⚧️ (@c_over_d_eq_pi) August 12, 2025

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On August 13th, 2025, X^[4] user @ceee quoted @IsThisA3DModel's tweet claiming that the blue egg yolk effect can be achieved on Photoshop in under 30 seconds, writing, "I’d like to see someone of average casual Photoshop experience do this in under 5 minutes." The post gathered over 11 million views and 12,000 likes in two days.

Several internet users responded to the post with their attempts at speedrunning blue egg yolks, as seen in an August 13th, 2025, post by X^[5] user @paintaya showing them using a free mobile photo editing app. The post gathered over 7 million views and 200,000 likes in two days.

https://t.co/kcmUIVz8eo pic.twitter.com/ZlRIluBNM6

— 🙇 (@paintaya) August 13, 2025

On August 14th, 2025, X^[6] user @v2tism posted a video using "clip studio paint" to turn an egg yolk blue, writing, "you can literally do this in any app that has layer modes." The post gathered over 2 million views and 75,000 likes in a day.

you can literally do this in any app that has layer modes https://t.co/Zemcg6vjsP pic.twitter.com/6uij546Dni

— 🆖 сylo / ren 🍉 i ♡ sergeant john captain (@v2tism) August 14, 2025

On August 14th, X^[7] user @berdyaboi posted a video using Paint Tool SAI, gathering over 24,000 likes on a post titled, "i dont even own photoshop."

i dont even own photoshop pic.twitter.com/pS1olqkJUu

— berd (@berdyaboi) August 14, 2025

Various Examples

19 seconds
Pretty sure no image generation model can even respond within 20 seconds pic.twitter.com/TXH7nr58Tf

— Max Rovensky (@MaxRovensky) August 14, 2025

30 seconds was generous https://t.co/Ybn3Yh6LYo pic.twitter.com/9EnNXmcNIW

— rob 🌿 (@robably__) August 14, 2025

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