Yesterday, a very strange wave exploded on social media. Suddenly everyone was sharing images in Miyazaki's artistic style, those Studio Ghibli animations we all know. From remastered classic memes to completely new scenes generated with AI, the feed was filled with that very particular aesthetic. And of course, as always happens in crypto, someone launched a token called $Ghibli right in the middle of the viral chaos.

All of this happened because OpenAI just released GPT-4o with an integrated image generator, and it turns out to be brutally good at replicating Miyazaki's style. Sam Altman even changed his avatar to an image in that style, and boom, it went viral. Even Elon Musk jumped into the trend commenting that it was the topic of the day. The model is "omni" because it processes text, image, audio, and video without needing to connect to other external models.

Regarding the token $Ghibli, it launched yesterday at 6 p.m., and in the first few hours, it skyrocketed dramatically. However, looking at the data now, the coin has already corrected significantly. The current price is practically zero, with a -15.95% drop in 24 hours and a market capitalization of just $349.66K. What started as a peak of $24 million in market cap deflated quite quickly, as is often the case with these trend-driven tokens.

Of course, Hayao Miyazaki would never agree. The co-founder of Studio Ghibli has been very vocal in his rejection of AI-generated animation, even saying he finds it "an offense to life itself." But that didn’t stop the social media community or crypto speculators.

If you want to generate your own images in Miyazaki style, it’s relatively simple. You log into ChatGPT with GPT-4o, upload an image, and ask it to redraw in Ghibli’s animation style. You can also combine multiple images. The technology is there and works.

What’s interesting is that AI giants are in a race to dominate image generation. Google also recently updated its Gemini 2.0 Flash. It’s becoming easier to have your own AI artist that understands exactly what you want. But well, with the $Ghibli token in free fall, the lesson is that viral trends and memes in crypto have a very short life. The team behind the project is also not very clear, so if you were thinking of jumping in, better be cautious.