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• @allpogsgo2heavn Matthew on x

  @CultureCrave @DarrenAronofsky I'm dumbfounded and disgusted at how far you've fallen. You've made incredible works in your career. Mother!, The Wrestler, The Whale, Black Swan, to name a few. Film of astounding quality, profoundly human works of art. You're abandoning the craft …

• @ja_y007 Yoshi on x

  What a waste of time and effort and important resources and the environment and creativity. That too from someone like #DarrenAronofsky. Depressing stuff. #AI

• @nickfloats Nick St. Pierre on x

  The delta between the AI content you typically see on X and what a true storyteller like Darren Aronofsky manages to produce with the same tools is truly insane. Trailer for his new weekly series about the year that shaped a nation called ‘On This Day...1776’ Full ep below [video…

• @tsos_ @tsos_ on x

  Okay yeah, I just turned from one of Aranofsky's biggest defenders into his biggest hater, fuck you and your goddamn AI slop.

• @inceptstellar Alan B. on x

  those actors need to be booted from SAG, not even kidding

• @bikeman @bikeman on x

  @CultureCrave This look awful. It has that weird uncanny valley ai sheen on it as usual. Ai also always has boring, predictable camera movements. Slow rotations and pans every time. I see the standard ai dead eyed line deliveries, are present as well.

• @ghostesq @ghostesq on bluesky

  there are moments where I start ruminating on “is this the end times” and right now is a moment [embedded post]

• @jose-eduardo José Eduardo González on bluesky

  Is this the beginning of AI generated movies?  Funny how Aronofsky's company describe their objective as “helping people” tell stories.  —  www.primordialsoup.ai/about [embedded post]

• @trailerjones Brandon Jones on bluesky

  What a marvelous way to capture one of the greatest of humanity's struggles by telling its story using the easiest and least human method possible.  [embedded post]

• @drl @drl on bluesky

  I'm somewhat addicted to “How this movie got made” podcasts so I am often astounded how often Aranofsky's name comes up when listing “directors considered for <blockbuster>” and wonder how/why he didn't sell out and get that Wolverine Origins money?  —  homie was banking credibil…

• @emilystjams Emily St. James on bluesky

  This is one of the more technically accomplished AI videos I've seen, in a way that shows some of what might be exciting about the tech in a vacuum, but, like, it's just not able to do stuff like this yet?  It's so obviously a series of wax figurines that have come to life? [embe…

• @seanferrick Seán Ferrick on bluesky

  I just...it's like the just didn't want to bother making an actual animated series?  Yes, there's actors, which is good, but otherwise...just no.  —  This is exactly what people were worried about - replacing actors altogether.  Or in this case specifically, animators.  —  Down. …

• @ohhhaeee @ohhhaeee on bluesky

  OFC its not enough for Darren Aronfsky to have plagarized one of the greatest filmmakers Satoshi Kon and make millions doing so.  Now he gets to plagarize so many more with AI “animation” slop thx to Time Studios  —  variety.com/2026/digital...

• @ethangach @ethangach on bluesky

  You don't have the be an avowed AI hater to be impressed without lifeless and unwatchable this is.

• @culturecrave.co @culturecrave.co on bluesky

  First trailer for Darren Aranofsky's new AI animated series ‘On This Day... 1776’  —  • Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War  —  • Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind  —  • Has SAG voice actors

• r/TheBigPicture r on reddit

  Darren Aronofsky Has Reconstructed the Revolutionary War Using AI

• r/movies r on reddit

  Darren Aronofsky Has Reconstructed the Revolutionary War Using AI

• @snarkysteff Steffani Cameron on bluesky

  I guess Darrren Aronofsky's dead to me now too.

• @dlbowman76.com David Bowman on bluesky

  Well, now we know that there is no one in Darren Aronofsky's life who can tell him, “Darren, don't do this.  This is a terrible idea.  The sort of people who actually like your films are going to curse your name for doing this.”

• @dogunderwater @dogunderwater on bluesky

  “a series he made with Google DeepMind and Salesforce, which will unfurl on Time Magazine's YouTube channel every week”

• r/TrueAnon r on reddit

  Darren Aronofsky, in collaboration with Time Magazine, is using AI to make a series of shorts to commemorate America hitting the big 250. …