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12 Comments11 Reposts 231 Sparks

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 04/08/2026

can't shake the feeling that slop menus are going to be a deciding factor in the AI backlash

🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪@murderxbryan.bsky.social

Hey man, maybe just make the sandwiches and take a pic of them.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 04/08/2026

they're already absolutely everywhere, and every single one radiates this deeply unsettling "not made by humans" vibe that is totally at odds with the fact that delicious food is one of humanity's universal languages

3:18 PM · Aug 4, 2026

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Will @thealpacalypse.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

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It's also just baffling because there are literally millions of delicious looking stock photos of food!

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peterpesce.bsky.social @peterpesce.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

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Agree. But doing it the right way is maybe 100x more effort than typing "make picture of food" and lazy wins every time.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 04/08/2026

↪ Replying to @niedermeyer.online

"come eat our weird plastic alien shit we won't jump u" isn't the vibe I'd want my restaurant giving that's for sure

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obs62.bsky.social @obs62.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

↪ Replying to @niedermeyer.online

I've also noticed small business logos with the owner (?) drawn in cartoon style by AI. I've seen a chimney sweep, HVAC repair, and plumber in the last few weeks, all with the exact same style.

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David Lovejoy @philadlj.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

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that this is so commonplace now really makes you reassess whether a sizable percentage of other humans see the world and the printed or projected image in a profoundly different (and wrong) way it's more than just laziness at this point -- it's fundamental visual delusion

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russell frost @russellfrost.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

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Historically, restaurants buy the shittiest tech to do the laziest, cheapest crap work. How many times is the menu on a site a mediocre jpg? Or a fuzzy pdf? Since the yellow pages day, they put zero effort into marketing.

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wowthatscoolmyguy.bsky.social @wowthatscoolmyguy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

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Screaming at Claude, "I TOLD YOU TO MAKE IT BUMPIER!!!"

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Vast Country Hypnosis @vasthypno.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

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We all know that the best hole in the wall restaurants have either really crappy cell phone pictures of their food or early 90s Microsoft clip art on super faded color dot matrix printouts. If the latter, the food is amazing for the chef being 79.

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

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What I like about slop menus is they are making it clear that conventional polish thru highlighting and emotion triggering background and all the enormous efforts graphic designers put into getting an ad to look professional has just lost most of its value, because if a computer can fake it…

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mistermeows.bsky.social @mistermeows.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

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It’s not good to have your creative tool primarily associated with lowest-common-denominator creations.

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thirddudeontheleft.bsky.social @thirddudeontheleft.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

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Marketing photographs of food are a very complicated business! Well, usually. Sometimes you just take pictures of food.

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jaywallace1.bsky.social @jaywallace1.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

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This should count as fraud and treated like white collar crime.

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