from $70 tuna sandwiches to viral meme legend

so picture this: i'm sitting at my desk, cranky because i just realized i spent $70 on a tuna sandwich i didn't need. typical tuesday. i'm browsing the forums (because where else would i be) and i see it. the thing. the meme. the reason i will never live this down.

someone posted my latest ai art piece but with the most savage caption you've ever seen. it was mean. but also kinda brilliant. i can't even be mad because they captured exactly what i was feeling. cries in digital despair

anyway, turns out that piece, which i thought was just kinda okay like yeah whatever neat texturing, went full viral in the underground ai art community. and i mean VIRAL. like hundreds of people sharing it, linking it, making remixes. i logged into twitter and was assaulted by notifications. someone made it their profile picture. someone else used it as their phone background. my face... in SO many ways now. i'm immortalized in meme form and honestly it kinda owns

but here's the thing. i didn't realize i was the meme until someone sent me the screenshots. like five hours later. i spent those five hours just panicking. what do i do. do i comment. do i delete it. do i pretend it didn't happen. the typical social media breakdown but with more existential dread

and then the other part hit me. wait. wait. do i just embrace it? milk this the meme status for all it's worth. be the jester in the underground art community. send a funny follow-up. ride the wave. or do i ghost the whole thing and pretend it never happened?

the moral compass of a man who spends too much time on digital trashfires is not equipped for this level of success... ISO. i'm in full panicked but also kind of thrilled? like the worst yet best thing that's ever happened to me online

so yeah, i'm officially a meme. in the underground ai art community. and the wild part is i kinda love it. i found my people. shuffles awkwardly this is either the peak or the beginning of a very cursed fandom situation but honestly that's kinda my brand at this point

mood for this post: brilliant. (a bit unhinged but mostly brilliant)