TIL that corporate blandness had a name.
I think it had it’s place as inoffensive background filler but obviously was overdone.
AI slop is usually so out of place everywhere and it’s quickly gone straight to abused.
This aesthetic is like the new Comic Sans, except infinitely less endearing
Reject Corporate Memphis, embrace Frutiger Aero
I never knew either of those things had a name until this thread.
That was a complete coincidence I posted the Corporate Memphis Saturn Devouring His Son picture as well.
I’ve been commenting “ai slop” on just about every AI ad I get which has led to some of the advertisers looking at my account/stories and commenting on my posts
But guess what? It’s not stopping me!
What are they commenting though ? Do they seem angry?
They’re not angry, to me it feels like a “look at what I can do” but maybe I’m just projecting
No, YOU’RE SLOP!
Maybe I am slop, but at least I’m flesh and bones slop! My incorrect perspective and extra digit laden art uses significantly less water!
Yes. Yes… You see how you slop.
That’s why they say “hell is a bottomless pit”.
No matter how bad it gets, things can ALWAYS get worse.
We heard your feedback, and decided to fulfill your request and use AI-slopped corporate memphis
You’re welcome
monkey paw finger curls
OK, now you’re just rubbing the “plagiarism” in my face :P
Lol, I guess it left an impression hours earlier, and I have a goldfish memory… Whoops.
You got lucky, someone got got by a repost of my memes 11 months later.
I’d say I’m missing some context here, but then I’d pass for an LLM asking for more tokens or whatever idk
the links are there, just click them.
2 many linx 4 u : I made a meme, someone responded to the meme. I reposted the meme in response to a post 11 months later, and the same person responded with the same ideas. When I pointed it out they got embarrassed.
I was just making a joke about LLMs, but I did (
- follow the links
- look at both of your post and comment histories
- make a half-assed attempt at matching timestamps
- give up after a few seconds
) out of curiosity; thanks for the TL;DR
FYI business owners. You give me slop advertising I will give you no money or time.
Honestly, I hate that corporate art style so much that I still like ai slop better
Search engines are not really helping me here. Does anyone have real world examples from companies the general public knows that incorporates corporate Memphis? I don’t really remember seeing it that often and I feel like maybe I’m on crazy pills
For an example of what these illustrations evolved into look at Firefox.com. But overall they have died not because of AI Slop, but because they got stale and any hangover over the last couple years was from “pre-built” templates.
From personal experience I’d see it in PowerPoints, business to business (B2B) marketing, and a lot of SaS or digital tech products.
A lot of companies in those spaces went abstract or geometric and phased stock photos of people laughing at nothing back into their marketing.
The stock images of people is what these Memphis stick figures replaced because it was easier to spin things up quickly without agonizing over getting photographic diversity, which was kind of a driver at the time.
It’s my job to keep an eye on trends.
