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Dinosaurio or AI Drawings Of Dinosaurs With Jobs, also known as Dinoprofesiones, refers to a series of AI-generated drawings of dinosaurs in different human professions, like doctors, firemen, journalists and other professionals. The trend was popularized in January of 2023 by the Instagram page @the_ai_dreams and inspired discussions and parodies of it on social media.

Origin

On January 29th, 2023, Instagram^[1] user @the_ai_dreams shared a collection of AI art titled "Dinosaurs at work part 1" featuring small animals dressed in the uniforms of a fireman, a trucker, a musician, a bartender and many other professions. The images were created using the Midjourney^[2] artificial intelligence tool and received 5,689 likes in one month (seen below).

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These dinosaur AI drawings attracted people on social media, who downloaded the images and edited them to add cute names using the suffix "saurus," such as "doctorsaurus," "surgeonisaur," "dentisaur," etc. On February 2nd, 2023, the Twitter^[3] meme page @nacional_memes shared two images of the dinosaurs with the captions "businessaur" and "chemistsaurus" in Spanish. The post garnered 7,504 likes and 1,127 retweets in a week (seen below).

Abro hilo de dinosaurios profesionales pic.twitter.com/HNOwwJVqZK

— Memes Universidad Nacional (@nacional_memes) February 2, 2023

The AI dinosaur characters became popular in parodies fan art about things not related to professions, but other human characteristics. For example, on February 6th, 2023, TikTok^[4] user @zoe.guate uploaded a fan video (below, left) showing that her dinosaur is the "toxicsaurus." The video received 30,300 plays and 715 likes in a day. Another example, posted by TikTok^[5] user @pepe.jose1 on February 5th, 2023, shows his dinosaur with a profession of "drinksaurus." The video garnered 7.8 million plays and 336,000 likes in two days (seen below, right).

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