About

Ostagram Spaghetti Mashups are images that have been processed with a photograph of spaghetti on the Ostagram convolutional neural network, which creates a new picture combining the two images together. The web application has been used to create a variety of humorous pictures, often making it appears as if people and fictional characters have been turned into a bowl of pasta.

Origin

In late 2015, the Ostagram^[3] web application was launched, which allows users to process custom images through a variety of filters (shown below, left). On April 4th, 2016, Something Awful Forums^[1] user YeOldePoop submitted a photograph of Donald Trump processed with the spaghetti photograph in a thread about the neural network (shown below, right).

Spread

On November 9th, 2016, the @ostagram.ru Instagram feed posted another picture of Donald Trump combined with a photo of spaghetti (shown below, left). On December 11th, Redditor GenuinePorkChops posted a picture of the Overwatch character Genji combined with the Ostagram spaghetti image to /r/Overwatch,^[2] where it received upwards of 2,400 points (96% upvoted) and 220 comments prior to being archived (shown below, right).

On May 18th, 2017, Redditor moplopplus posted an Ostagram spaghetti version of the It's Wednesday My Dudes frog picture to /r/me_irl] where it gathered more than 5,000 points (96% upvoted) and 60 comments over the next four months (shown below, left). On September 9th, Redditor Holofan4life posted the Distracted Boyfriend stock photo processed with the Ostagram spaghetti image to /r/memes^[5] (shown below, right). On September 28th, 2017, Redditor JKaro submitted a post asking about the spaghetti images to /r/OutOfTheLoop.^[4]

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