The internet is celebrating the festival season with Ghibli-style images. Instead of sharing text messages, GIFs or general photo greetings, social media users are celebration the new year festivals in a trendy way. Vibing to the recent craze of generating Ghibli Studio images using ChatGPT's newly-introduced feature, X users extended festival wishes with Ghibli images.
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Sajibu Cheiraoba
While there were several Ghibli-themed Gudi Padwa wishes on X, a few users also celebrated Sajibu Cheiraoba and Ugadi this way.
Chairman of Loktak Development Authority (LDA) and Manipur BJP worker, M Asnikumar Singh, extended his warm wishes for the Meitei New Year using an AI-generated image. Sharing hearty wishes on the occasion, he created and posted a Ghibli-style image featuring a little boy joining the festive celebrations along with his mother, who is seen dressed in a traditional Manipuri attire.
Happy Ugadi
Ugadi wishes also poured surfaced in the popular Ghibli-studio style. A cardiologist named Dr P Kamath, with 44K followers on X, followed the AI image trend to extend wishes and greetings on the occasion. Uploading a image of him dressed in his healthcare costume, he stood against the backdrop of a Lord Ganesha photo frame to wish people a "joyful and prosperous Ugadi".
It's the festival season
On March 30, India celebrates many festivals. People across cultures and communities are enjoying their new year festivities. While Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are observing Ugadi, Maharashtra is marking Gudi Padwa. The auspicious day has celebrates Cheti Chaand, a festival that marks the beginning of the Lunar Hindu New Year for Sindhi Hindus.
What's Ghibli?
Studio Ghibli is a renowned Japanese animation studio. ChatGPT rolled out a feature inspired by this Japanese digital art, resulting in a trend on social media with several users generating Ghibli-style images. From selfies to meme templates, people tweaked every photo into this trendy style.
In the context of ChatGPT, Ghibli refers to its studio which generates AI images, offering aesthetic a softer, dreamy and anime touch to the original visuals.
