New AI cryptid just dropped (see also: Loab, Crungus)
August 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
New AI cryptid just dropped (see also: Loab, Crungus)
*Hey look, I found a live Crungus in a DALL-E 3 Mini installation. #crungus #nokidding #intheweights #slopping
August 10, 2025 at 8:53 AM
*Hey look, I found a live Crungus in a DALL-E 3 Mini installation. #crungus #nokidding #intheweights #slopping
gotta hand it to AI, that’s crungus
August 3, 2025 at 4:26 AM
gotta hand it to AI, that’s crungus
*I used to fret quite a lot about Crungus, but now I pretty well get it about the nature and origins of Crungus. I get it as a period technical glitch-artifact, and not some mindboggling cyber-rabbithole
*And I'm encouraged by that
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*And I'm encouraged by that
www.flickr.com/photos/bruce...
February 24, 2026 at 8:43 AM
*I used to fret quite a lot about Crungus, but now I pretty well get it about the nature and origins of Crungus. I get it as a period technical glitch-artifact, and not some mindboggling cyber-rabbithole
*And I'm encouraged by that
www.flickr.com/photos/bruce...
*And I'm encouraged by that
www.flickr.com/photos/bruce...
wait what’s Crungus
August 3, 2025 at 12:19 AM
wait what’s Crungus
"Crungus-pioneer, Guy Kelly"
July 21, 2026 at 2:44 PM
"Crungus-pioneer, Guy Kelly"
*Yeah, the Crungus was monstrous, but it was also *monstrously funny.* It never MEANT to be funny, but it afforded some kind of surreal psychic relief
*And now I have a Crungus archive. I suspect it may be the only one in the world. Probably I should print it on acid-free stock & bury it in a jar
*And now I have a Crungus archive. I suspect it may be the only one in the world. Probably I should print it on acid-free stock & bury it in a jar
I´m quite sure he played Bass for Gwar in the nineties.
February 24, 2026 at 8:58 AM
*Yeah, the Crungus was monstrous, but it was also *monstrously funny.* It never MEANT to be funny, but it afforded some kind of surreal psychic relief
*And now I have a Crungus archive. I suspect it may be the only one in the world. Probably I should print it on acid-free stock & bury it in a jar
*And now I have a Crungus archive. I suspect it may be the only one in the world. Probably I should print it on acid-free stock & bury it in a jar
I'm thinking about making a tiny game just for fun.
It would be a game of goblin identification. You look for the signs in your surroundings to find which goblins live with you. For example, trails of crumbs are likely from Erkly Crungus, the famed cookie thief.
It would be a game of goblin identification. You look for the signs in your surroundings to find which goblins live with you. For example, trails of crumbs are likely from Erkly Crungus, the famed cookie thief.
May 11, 2026 at 8:41 PM
I'm thinking about making a tiny game just for fun.
It would be a game of goblin identification. You look for the signs in your surroundings to find which goblins live with you. For example, trails of crumbs are likely from Erkly Crungus, the famed cookie thief.
It would be a game of goblin identification. You look for the signs in your surroundings to find which goblins live with you. For example, trails of crumbs are likely from Erkly Crungus, the famed cookie thief.
(see also: Loab, Crungus)
New AI cryptid just dropped (see also: Loab, Crungus)
Elias Vance
August 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
(see also: Loab, Crungus)
*Yeah, the good old Dall-E mini "crungus" monster, who came from nowhere with the nonsense-word prompt "crungus," he was probably some kind of "vector space embedding"
February 28, 2025 at 10:45 AM
*Yeah, the good old Dall-E mini "crungus" monster, who came from nowhere with the nonsense-word prompt "crungus," he was probably some kind of "vector space embedding"
"Crungus," a black-metal band from Amarillo, Texas, circa July 2025 #crungus #Hollow #WormHoleDeathLabel
*Whatever happens to musicians will happen to everybody
youtu.be/8ZEiFC4pwQs?...
*Whatever happens to musicians will happen to everybody
youtu.be/8ZEiFC4pwQs?...
Crungus - Hollow (Music Video)
YouTube video by WormHoleDeathLabel
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August 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
"Crungus," a black-metal band from Amarillo, Texas, circa July 2025 #crungus #Hollow #WormHoleDeathLabel
*Whatever happens to musicians will happen to everybody
youtu.be/8ZEiFC4pwQs?...
*Whatever happens to musicians will happen to everybody
youtu.be/8ZEiFC4pwQs?...
Remember Crungus? Whenever anybody asked an llm to talk about Crungus, they got consistent answers, and it spawned a whole folklore when people shared what they had with each other. That was cool but what made it cool was the act of communal storytelling and temporary willingness to be surprised.
February 1, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Remember Crungus? Whenever anybody asked an llm to talk about Crungus, they got consistent answers, and it spawned a whole folklore when people shared what they had with each other. That was cool but what made it cool was the act of communal storytelling and temporary willingness to be surprised.
*That's just not a "crungus"
January 23, 2024 at 9:06 AM
*That's just not a "crungus"
*I;m guessing that "Elara Voss" and "Elias Vance" don't last that long either, but the cool thing about the Crungus was that you could prompt-hack it and explore the weight-space in which it kind-of-existed
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www.flickr.com/photos/bruce...
August 10, 2025 at 5:50 AM
*I;m guessing that "Elara Voss" and "Elias Vance" don't last that long either, but the cool thing about the Crungus was that you could prompt-hack it and explore the weight-space in which it kind-of-existed
www.flickr.com/photos/bruce...
www.flickr.com/photos/bruce...
i KNEW you had been possessed by Crungus
February 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
i KNEW you had been possessed by Crungus
Nightdive be like "The legendary FPS, Crungus is back! Everyone hated it when it came out. Everyone hates it now. Play it in 4k. $15"
Good for them tbh
Good for them tbh
September 10, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Nightdive be like "The legendary FPS, Crungus is back! Everyone hated it when it came out. Everyone hates it now. Play it in 4k. $15"
Good for them tbh
Good for them tbh
*Indeed it is, but it certainly didn't seem simple at the time.
Which was just three years ago.
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Which was just three years ago.
www.flickr.com/photos/bruce...
February 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
*Indeed it is, but it certainly didn't seem simple at the time.
Which was just three years ago.
www.flickr.com/photos/bruce...
Which was just three years ago.
www.flickr.com/photos/bruce...
*I'd like to see some testing, but I think it's the old-school dall-e mini Crungus
At this stage do you think it’s the natural-born crungus, or training on crungus-commentary that it has since found on the internet?
August 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
*I'd like to see some testing, but I think it's the old-school dall-e mini Crungus
literally created Crungus
August 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM
literally created Crungus
Crungus was a horrible gremlin guy with red eyes, but I think he actually died out after one of the models was changed
August 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Crungus was a horrible gremlin guy with red eyes, but I think he actually died out after one of the models was changed