About

Artflow.ai is a website that hosts an artificial intelligence program that allows its users to generate digital faces based on short, textual input. Interest in the website increased notably in August 2021.

Origin

Artflow.ai was launched in mid-July 2021 by Artflow Program, with its earliest social media post on Facebook announcing the websites' launch on July 16th, 2021.^[1][2] The site's Twitter^[10] account often posts advertisements and examples of AI creations that users can generate or have generated.

On July 28th, Artflow.ai's Twitter account posted an image containing 2 classic memes with AI added features: A gender-bent version of the Overly Attached Girlfriend (Overly Attached Boyfriend) and Scumbag Steve vampire (shown, below).^[3]

Spread

On August 29th, 2021, Twitter user @imFireMonkey posted several renditions of various memes, such as Big Chungus, which received 72 likes and 1 retweet in 4 days (shown below, left).^[4] On August 31st, 2021, Reddit user Fall_of_89 posted a rendition of Vinny Vinesauce on r/Vinesauce, garnering 44 points in 2 days (shown below, right).^[5]

Several threads were made on image-board website 4chan, particularly on the /pol/ board, where anonymous users posted their own renditions and AI creations.^[6][7][8] On August 31st, Redditor u/BloodyPommelStudios posted an image to /r/Berserk^[11] showing renditions of characters from the anime Berserk, gaining over 2,100 upvotes in four days (shown below).

On September 1st, 2021, Redditor u/mstilw577 posted a rendition of all nine characters in Team Fortress 2 using their Wikipedia descriptions as the input to /r/tf2^[9] gaining over 8,700 upvotes in two days (shown below).

Various Examples

Search Interest

External References