"ignore your effort"? It's the opposite, it's praise for putting in the effort when that's more optional than ever, that's the whole thing.

The context is very salient because so many people think that asking AI to make a sign is better than doing something handmade.

The comment saying, hey everybody, look at this, this is better than those AI posters, is designed to counteract this notion.

I see your point and agree. Celebrate the presence of good, rather than the absence of bad

You're just seeing one comment out of a person's day, how do you know someone pointing that out spends even five minutes a day thinking about AI? And anyway, many people come to social media and especially the fediverse with the intention of discussion the primary issues of our time, one of them being AI, and a style using wordart like this image probably became a highly upvoted post at least in part because of people being sick of AI flyers.

People "obsessed with AI" usually are concerned with the greater issues related to it, like the fascist tech-corpos taking over our government and economic systems, which is a hard thing to not agitate against when you are aware of what's going on.

Is having a stick up your ass against the rules?

I thought this was America