Like most of the population on social media yesterday, I was delighted to see all the classic memes get the Studio Ghibli treatment. To be honest, I’m still enjoying them today! It’s fun to see everything get the recreated by AI to look like it was made by Studio Ghibli! Here’s some of our favorites. Also, how you can make your own and lastly, why this whole Ghibli-fication is very sad ultimately. Which is the most Studio Ghibli thing ever.

And for those who may not know: Studio Ghibli is a Japanese animation studio, responsible for some the best 2-D, hand drawn, heartwarming, creative movies of all time. Their films are all worth watching. Brilliant stuff. Highly recommend you watch as many as possible. No lie.

But now, back to our favorite memes in the style of Studio Ghibli. Ah, the classics.

And as promised, here’s how to make your own:

Now for the horrible truth about the studio Ghibli filter.

It has no soul. The Studio Ghibli filter is the perfect representation of machine art. Just have a computer program make an imitation of something that was made with care, by hand, that needed a human mind to imagine it. It’s a heartbreaker really. Studio Ghibli embodies the beauty and optimism of the human experience. Now a program on the internet can give you fake version in a few moments. It’s all just a shadow of the original, but for many, that shadow will be enough. Entire movies and event’s that get run through filter, mixed up and recreated for people on the internet? It’s coming. It’s coming like cartoonishly friendly looking freight train.