As anyone with social media handles and more than a passing interest in video games knows, modern politicians are only too eager to co-opt gaming as a means to connect to more casual audiences. It happens across the political spectrum, but the current U.S. presidential administration has increased game-centric visibility by leaps and bounds. Including via insipid generative AI nonsense, of course.
It's been less than a day since Pokemon Pokopia's highly-anticipated (and rather highly-rated) launch. That's all it took for what was briefly a fun text generator meme to turn into something cringeworthy.
When Pixelframe crafted a text generator in the style of Pokopia's colorfully bubbly font, dozens, perhaps hundreds, of us flocked to make our jokes. Myself, I did a couple of Gundam-related things, specifically regarding the character of Banagher Links from the Unicorn series. Why? Because... well, it's a long story, an inside joke with my friends group, and it's really not worth boring you with. Suffice it to say, it was borderline-funny to at least three people. Possibly four.
Naturally, the White House's social media staff smelled blood in the water. But, like, this isn't even creative. It uses the...
