About

Replicate This Image 100 Times is an AI art trend where people use ChatGPT's image generation tool to try and create perfect replicas of an image. Repeated attempts to replicate an image such that it creates a chain of AI-generated images often leads to the image warping over time. The trend began with a post by Twitter / X user @papayathreesome in late March 2025, with Redditors on /r/ChatGPT continuing with the trend in April and May 2025. Several notable attempts to "Replicate This Image 100 Times" result in the subjects of the image warping into brown people with exaggerated features. The trend is similar to Make It More AI Trend from 2023.

Origin

On March 27th, 2025, Twitter / X^[1] user @papayathreesome posted a tweet that read, "asked gpt omni to recreate a photo of my friend. it did, but got a photo which looks synthetic and a bit off and isn't quite parsing as my friend." The initial tweet gathered over 400 likes in a month.

asked gpt omni to recreate a photo of my friend
it did, but got a photo which looks synthetic and a bit off and isn't quite parsing as my friend pic.twitter.com/w5CWdHzRNH

— papaya ꙮ (@papayathreesome) March 27, 2025

A subsequent tweet in the thread showed X^[2] user @papayathreesome running the image of their friend through the prompt, "create the exact replica of this image, don't change a thing," 74 times, resulting in his pale, culry haired friend being turned into a dark skinned, chubby woman resting her head on her hands. The tweet gathered over 5,000 likes in a month.

"create the exact replica of this image, don't change a thing" run 74 times pic.twitter.com/cRci1zofQV

— papaya ꙮ (@papayathreesome) April 21, 2025

Spread

On April 26th, 2025, X^[3] user @genekogan tweeted about their attempt to create a similar image feedback loop, using the Distracted Boyfriend meme as a starting template. The tweet read, "Another gpt-image feedback loop: "Generate the same photo 5 seconds into the future." The tweet showed the people in the meme turning from white young adults to vaguely short, brown, and Asian-looking people. The tweet gathered over 3,000 likes in two weeks.

Another gpt-image feedback loop: "Generate the same photo 5 seconds into the future."

Starting with distracted boyfriend meme. pic.twitter.com/xT1lOfibKy

— Gene Kogan (@genekogan) April 26, 2025

On April 29th, 2025, Redditor^[4] /u/gnutek posted about their attempt to participate in the "Replicate This Image 100 Times" trend, gathering over 2,900 upvotes on a post to the /r/ChatGPT subreddit^[4] in two weeks.

On April 30th, 2025, Redditor /u/Foreign_Builder_2238 posted their attempt at the "Create the exact replica of this image, don't change a thing" with a photo of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, where the process turned him into a distorted version of himself with blue lips, and then into abstract, brightly coloured artwork. The post on the /r/ChatGPT subreddit^[5] gathered over 80,000 upvotes in a week.

Several internet users commented on the "Replicate This Image 100 Times" trend in April and May 2025, including Redditor /u/Pillebrettx30, who joked about how the Make It More AI trend would always "end" with the software generating images of outer space, and how the "Replicate This Image 100 Times" trend supposedly generates images of "Samoan women." The post on the /r/ChatGPT subreddit^[6] gathered over 5,000 upvotes in a week.

Other internet users expressed concern about the environmental costs of the trend, with Redditor^[6] /u/Guns-and-Pumpkins writing, "It’s Time to Stop the 100x Image Generation Trend." The post read, "Yes, we get it: AI image generation involves randomness, and results will vary. But this kind of repetitive prompting isn’t a clever insight anymore--it’s just a trend that’s quietly racking up a massive environmental cost," gathering over 17,000 upvotes in a week.

On May 4th, TikToker^[7] @beautytest.me posted a video captioned, "Asking ChatGPT to replicate my selfie 100 times," gathering over 500,000 likes and 6 million views in two days.

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