OpenAI Joins the Lobster Trend and Ruins It for Everyone

Description

A four-panel watercolor comic by @alexkrokus (an edit of his classic 'corporations ruin the fad' lobster comic). Panel 1: cheerful blue figures admire friends wearing live red lobsters on their heads - a quirky organic trend. Panel 2: the trend spreads; crowds photograph lobster-wearers with phones, one wears a lobster t-shirt. Panel 3: a huge smiling pink/red corporate blob labeled 'OpenAI' shows up wearing a lobster, while the blue figures look annoyed and skeptical. Panel 4: multiple 'OpenAI'-branded red blobs wear lobsters and high-five while dead lobsters litter the ground and the original blue figures walk away disgusted. The comic satirizes big AI companies appropriating grassroots community culture and trends (the lobster nods to the open-source lobster-mascot AI agent craze), commercializing the joke until it's dead - literally, in lobster terms