genuinely the enormous Chinese game dev companies don't need defending or anything, but it's really annoying that when trendchasing games by white people show up at the Keighleys it's "AAA sucks" "mainstream sucks" but when trendchasing games by Chinese people show up it's "China steals everything"
August 29, 2026 at 5:29 AM
genuinely the enormous Chinese game dev companies don't need defending or anything, but it's really annoying that when trendchasing games by white people show up at the Keighleys it's "AAA sucks" "mainstream sucks" but when trendchasing games by Chinese people show up it's "China steals everything"
LRT
It’s so funny how completely trendchasing and opposite of smart Ryan Cohen is.
It’s so funny how completely trendchasing and opposite of smart Ryan Cohen is.
June 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
LRT
It’s so funny how completely trendchasing and opposite of smart Ryan Cohen is.
It’s so funny how completely trendchasing and opposite of smart Ryan Cohen is.
We trendchasing baby
October 21, 2024 at 4:17 PM
We trendchasing baby
trendchasing: you have to respond with emmy vibes
October 12, 2025 at 1:23 AM
trendchasing: you have to respond with emmy vibes
I like trendchasing :)
December 1, 2024 at 2:46 AM
I like trendchasing :)
special shout to all library administrators wasting literally everyone’s time genAI trendchasing
"It took a team of seven people and more working almost a full week to figure out how to stop this stuff in the first instance...There are lots of institutions that do not have the dedicated and brilliant staff that we have, and a lot of them are much more vulnerable."
AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”
www.404media.co
June 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
special shout to all library administrators wasting literally everyone’s time genAI trendchasing
Here I go trendchasing again.
...but this was a fun one to do, even with doing the BG from scratch! 😎💜
...but this was a fun one to do, even with doing the BG from scratch! 😎💜
June 29, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Here I go trendchasing again.
...but this was a fun one to do, even with doing the BG from scratch! 😎💜
...but this was a fun one to do, even with doing the BG from scratch! 😎💜
ways primarily money people ruin the games you’d want to play otherwise:
-by riddling them with generative AI shite/microtransactions
-underpaying staff/layoffs/crunch
-not investing in single player/ startups
-never talking to the devs on the ground about resources
-wasteful trendchasing
-by riddling them with generative AI shite/microtransactions
-underpaying staff/layoffs/crunch
-not investing in single player/ startups
-never talking to the devs on the ground about resources
-wasteful trendchasing
There are actual very real and measurable forces making every video game suck but nooooo it’s the black people
did you hate that game because it made you feel like shit every time you logged on and you never made any meaningful progress in endgame and the systems were predatory and everything was a microtransaction or because weyltir the half-elf had vitiligo?
March 6, 2024 at 11:07 PM
ways primarily money people ruin the games you’d want to play otherwise:
-by riddling them with generative AI shite/microtransactions
-underpaying staff/layoffs/crunch
-not investing in single player/ startups
-never talking to the devs on the ground about resources
-wasteful trendchasing
-by riddling them with generative AI shite/microtransactions
-underpaying staff/layoffs/crunch
-not investing in single player/ startups
-never talking to the devs on the ground about resources
-wasteful trendchasing
We do a bit of trendchasing with the one and only blahaj:3
December 22, 2024 at 8:05 AM
We do a bit of trendchasing with the one and only blahaj:3
Bis irgendein Pädagoge ein sinnvolles Konzept zum Umgang mit dieser Technologie im Unterricht überhaupt erstellt hat, werden kritische und kreative Potenziale durch dieses unreflektierte Trendchasing vernichtet.
Ich hätte gern eine Schule völlig OHNE KI, es reicht, sich später die Birne wegzuätzen
Ich hätte gern eine Schule völlig OHNE KI, es reicht, sich später die Birne wegzuätzen
January 29, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Bis irgendein Pädagoge ein sinnvolles Konzept zum Umgang mit dieser Technologie im Unterricht überhaupt erstellt hat, werden kritische und kreative Potenziale durch dieses unreflektierte Trendchasing vernichtet.
Ich hätte gern eine Schule völlig OHNE KI, es reicht, sich später die Birne wegzuätzen
Ich hätte gern eine Schule völlig OHNE KI, es reicht, sich später die Birne wegzuätzen
lrt, the video game industry is so decoupled from the reality of its cash flow that everything has become performance - performing increases in efficiency (mandatory rto) or profitability (layoffs, trendchasing features) for shareholders/investors because nothing makes enough money to support itself
December 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
lrt, the video game industry is so decoupled from the reality of its cash flow that everything has become performance - performing increases in efficiency (mandatory rto) or profitability (layoffs, trendchasing features) for shareholders/investors because nothing makes enough money to support itself
trendchasing mannequin
February 18, 2026 at 4:38 PM
trendchasing mannequin
if you've ever wanted to see a brutally clear (and hilarious) glimpse into why trendchasing is a totally morally bankrupt exercise, here you go. it's on tubi
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (1988). Penelope Spheeris' raucous look at a funny, sad, and vanished world with hair for miles and miles.
August 6, 2026 at 7:05 PM
if you've ever wanted to see a brutally clear (and hilarious) glimpse into why trendchasing is a totally morally bankrupt exercise, here you go. it's on tubi
tom macdonald's grift is super funny because he's always like 2-3 years behind the grifts that would actually make money. MGK's trendchasing guitar album was in like, 2022. the white boys are onto country-for-pay now, silly!
February 8, 2026 at 1:27 AM
tom macdonald's grift is super funny because he's always like 2-3 years behind the grifts that would actually make money. MGK's trendchasing guitar album was in like, 2022. the white boys are onto country-for-pay now, silly!
Like there’s nothing illegal with it, but it should be seen as just soulless trendchasing. It’s tacky and reeks of a lack of original concepts.
We’ve just survived the Bad Battle Royale wave and we’re literally still going through it right now with all the Vampire Survivors clones.
We’ve just survived the Bad Battle Royale wave and we’re literally still going through it right now with all the Vampire Survivors clones.
June 20, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Like there’s nothing illegal with it, but it should be seen as just soulless trendchasing. It’s tacky and reeks of a lack of original concepts.
We’ve just survived the Bad Battle Royale wave and we’re literally still going through it right now with all the Vampire Survivors clones.
We’ve just survived the Bad Battle Royale wave and we’re literally still going through it right now with all the Vampire Survivors clones.
and even then, audiences are for sure more interested in variety than trends and focus groups give them credit for! your personal sincere authoral stuff might as well outperform the repetitive trendchasing slop!
September 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
and even then, audiences are for sure more interested in variety than trends and focus groups give them credit for! your personal sincere authoral stuff might as well outperform the repetitive trendchasing slop!
Thinking out loud but the reason people get really mad at the phrase "right wing grifter" is because it's raising the spectre of 'stream meta' and trendchasing, and it's clear that most "right wing grifters" are not satirically benefiting from a trend or w/e, and I wouldnt trust em later anyway.
August 23, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Thinking out loud but the reason people get really mad at the phrase "right wing grifter" is because it's raising the spectre of 'stream meta' and trendchasing, and it's clear that most "right wing grifters" are not satirically benefiting from a trend or w/e, and I wouldnt trust em later anyway.
Trendchasing
October 20, 2024 at 3:43 AM
Trendchasing
Yeah, so many of these are just dogshit even without the fact that they're made with genAI, mostly because the people "making" them don't really care about what they are using AI to generate — they just want a quick payday. It's why you see so much trendchasing, those people don't care either!
September 10, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Yeah, so many of these are just dogshit even without the fact that they're made with genAI, mostly because the people "making" them don't really care about what they are using AI to generate — they just want a quick payday. It's why you see so much trendchasing, those people don't care either!
similarly, if i was 11-12 years old, and current wwe (via netflix) was my main exposure to wrestling: nothing but wall to wall ads and unabashed fascism and desperate trendchasing, i doubt i'd be interested.
Genuinely unsure if there's a place for me in MMA anymore. What I do know for sure is if I was younger and encountering MMA for the first time, there is no possible way I'd ever become a fan.
May 30, 2026 at 3:43 PM
similarly, if i was 11-12 years old, and current wwe (via netflix) was my main exposure to wrestling: nothing but wall to wall ads and unabashed fascism and desperate trendchasing, i doubt i'd be interested.
Si l'art généré par l'IA a pu écraser aussi facilement les créateurs et créatrices les plus modestes, c'est aussi à cause de ce cynisme, de cette quête de rentabilité, du trendchasing, qui avaient déjà envahi le marché de l'art et du divertissement, bien avant l'arrivée de l'IA.
January 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Si l'art généré par l'IA a pu écraser aussi facilement les créateurs et créatrices les plus modestes, c'est aussi à cause de ce cynisme, de cette quête de rentabilité, du trendchasing, qui avaient déjà envahi le marché de l'art et du divertissement, bien avant l'arrivée de l'IA.
you can have a much more productive conversation set up around Sales and Marketing and the fact that publishers *do* want everyone reading the same books bc they're trendchasing dogs but a lot of the books depicted do not fly with majority of their reading demographics. theyre just memetic
April 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
you can have a much more productive conversation set up around Sales and Marketing and the fact that publishers *do* want everyone reading the same books bc they're trendchasing dogs but a lot of the books depicted do not fly with majority of their reading demographics. theyre just memetic
they are not immune to trendchasing.
December 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
they are not immune to trendchasing.
my stance on like art redraws and whatnot is i think that plagiarism is simply not that serious(sorry!) but i do think that a lot of the trendchasing does simply express a kind of creative bankruptcy
August 14, 2026 at 6:02 PM
my stance on like art redraws and whatnot is i think that plagiarism is simply not that serious(sorry!) but i do think that a lot of the trendchasing does simply express a kind of creative bankruptcy
i think holding GOAT up as a beacon of an original animated film ignores the fact that "GOAT" was the marketing buzzword of 2025 and there's definitely trendchasing there
that said, it looks like a solid film in its own right, and sony pictures animation continues to flex their pipeline here!
that said, it looks like a solid film in its own right, and sony pictures animation continues to flex their pipeline here!
Sony's 'GOAT' is a slam dunk! In a huge win for original animation at the box office, the studio's latest exceeded expectations over the holiday weekend, pulling in nearly $26M domestically and $48M worldwide.
www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...
www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...
Sony’s 'GOAT' Pushes Near $50M Over The Holiday Weekend
The Sony Pictures Animation release debuts above projections, showing family audiences still turn out for well-marketed, non-franchise theatrical films.
www.cartoonbrew.com
February 16, 2026 at 9:26 PM
i think holding GOAT up as a beacon of an original animated film ignores the fact that "GOAT" was the marketing buzzword of 2025 and there's definitely trendchasing there
that said, it looks like a solid film in its own right, and sony pictures animation continues to flex their pipeline here!
that said, it looks like a solid film in its own right, and sony pictures animation continues to flex their pipeline here!