Seems plausible, now @fireweed@lemmy.world your move to replace the slop.
The image still clearly looks like ai, the fur is like a plush animal.

If you wanna preserve the look, slap on color correction.
It's even way sharper and better looking too.

ddg uses bing, and while they can filter text things to be surprisingly usable, they can't do anything about the garbage image search.

It may be. These ai slopperies usually copy something preexisting.
Unfortunately then Im not sure how to dig it out, without some tagline the meme was under, a name, or something close enough visually to find it.
This must have come out different enough to not be reverse searchable to the original it rips off.

If you have any title or tagline you remember seeing with the image, that'd help. If it also was that same tetris shape, that'd already be a starting point. I found a very different tetris cat meme yesterday while hunting it the first time:

There is also long cat, and many instances of multiple cats one box.

Can you try to find that original? I am struggling with it.
Or do you remember anything about it? How similar was it?

In searching it I found a lot of downscales at poor enough quality it's no longer apparent to me to be AI.

I even found a video, which I'm pretty sure is generated too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNvqyYlfk4A
Note the weird way the "breathing" shifts around the cats body. And the shadow of a phone that appears in the reflection of light to the right at the end, which makes no sense with the direction of light based on that reflection and the cats shadow.

Edit: I found one from June 26 on Instagram, which is higher res and slopped with a different AI (Google's).

different, higher res slop

it's ai watermarked :(
synthid explanation

The sheer number of handles on that cupboard.

it's ai watermarked :(
synthid explanation

Thanks! I'll probably have to link to that a lot of times

I finally got around to starting my big explanation summary thing post:
https://reddthat.com/post/76302356

It'd be great if you could give some feedback. Don't feel the need to read any more than you'd have if I'd just dropped you that link, tho.

That's enough loafs of high quality sourdough bread to feed a neighbourhood.

The us is straight slopping political "infographics" now?

I think it's actually fairly common. Maybe even almost every time, just the original being unknown or killed by someone sloppifying it before it ever spread. Turns out people who use ai correlate well with people who don't have ideas.

They'll just "make this meme but slightly better", thereby usually making it both worse and less believable. The cat looks so sad in this one, prob cause of the massive tumor on its left cheek.
While the book is probably a massive walking stereotype about cultural depiction of asia in the west, has text aligned with the camera not book, and is photorealistic.

I've found brave to simply not be good enough to use as a main search engine. Depends on your needs of course.
Iirc it didn't even respect quotes.

That cat tiger image has a synthid. It's slop. The original it's ripping off shpuld be:

and also the og

Unfortunately we may be forced to remove all advertising from public spaces to make them safer to robots.

"Fire at studio, 9000 dead cause emergency services couldn't be called."

Maybe airplane mode, if not a fake app. Doing it in effects would be the same effort of recreation with way more extra work for worse results. If it matches an actual dialers modern design, rule of least effort would say airplane mode or similar. Else, fake dialer.

beware it's slop