TL;DR
- Trends
- Fake ChatGPT nostalgic photo-slider trend
- Views
- 3.9M+ combined views from four posts in a span of 4 days.
- Format
- Photo-slider of a recent photo and an old photo with trend-specific text copy
- Why It Works
- People stay because of the “request” creators write to ChatGPT in the first slide to see the output.
- Use It When
- You want to reminisce about the old days or the first day you and your special one met.
What is this trend
Wait, why would ChatGPT generate this picture?
1.4M 
13.4K 
287.1K Which founder do we need to sue for responsibility for making us cry? 😭
This fake ChatGPT trend is going viral because of the shocking yet nostalgic feelings it brought.
Starting off with a simple request for ChatGPT, creators put their recent photo while asking ChatGPT to fix the recent photo.
503.2K 1.8K 61.0K But once viewers slide the photos, who would ever expect that we’ll see a heartwarming photo from the past? 🥰
26.0K 13 1.9K The text copy and sound used may vary according to the creator, but the point stays the same.
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