Better a Pig Than a Fascist

He fell in love with the image of himself / And suddenly the picture was distorted. Help me make more videos:   / pillarofgarbage   Or join my channel on YouTube with a Membership:    / @pillarofgarbage   Follow me on BlueSky! https://bsky.app/profile/pillarofgarb... Watch my podcast!    / @pillarofgarbagepogcast   Join the Pillar of Garbage Discord server!   / discord   I'm on Mastodon: https://mas.to/@PillarOfGarbage or check out the Pillar of Garbage subreddit at www.reddit.com/r/pillarofgarbage Second channel:    / @quone   Thanks to ‪@TSDTalks22‬, ‪@CH4R10T_TV‬, ‪@KaiAfterKai‬, and ‪@JoshWithParentheses‬ for their voice lines, and to ‪@CH4R10T_TV‬ again for some very helpful script notes. And thanks to ‪@hotcyder‬ for the thumbnail! This video has a Patreon endnote explaining just why 'bizarre' is a little reductive. Here's the link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/endnote... Watch the Kingscreek trailer:    • Kingscreek - Release Date Trailer   Timestamps: 0:00 Aura-farming with Walter Benjamin 3:10 Pigs and fascists 14:41 The cruelty is the point 24:56 Dead images at the Ghibli hotel 31:31 End Sources quoted from: Kaku Arakawa, Hayao Miyazaki: Never-Ending Man, NHK, 2016:    • Video   Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Penguin, 2008. Trans. J. A. Underwood. Klaus P. Fischer, Nazi Germany: A New History, Constable, 1996. Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (30th Anniversary Edition), Continuum, 2005. Trans. Myra Bergman Ramos. Ethan Gach, Lord Of The Rings Turned Into Studio Ghibli AI Slop Looks Like Garbage, Kokatu: https://kotaku.com/studio-ghibli-ai-l... Brian Merchant, OpenAI's Studio Ghibli meme factory is an insult to art itself, Blood in the Machine: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/o... Hayao Miyazaki, Porco Rosso, Studio Ghibli, 1992. Adi Robertson, ChatGPT’s Ghibli filter is political now, but it always was, The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/tech/638603/... Brooks Turner, American Fascism as Aesthetic Experience, MnArtists: https://mnartists.walkerart.org/ameri... Gareth Watkins, AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism, New Socialist: https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmiss... Maxwell Zeff, OpenAI’s viral Studio Ghibli moment highlights AI copyright concerns, TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/26/ope... Sources shown: TheVerge on the Ghibli trend: https://www.theverge.com/openai/63652... RSC Macbeth:    • Macbeth and Banquo meet the Witches | Macb...   Ghibli watch orders: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment... https://theboar.org/2024/06/studio-gh... Immigration and economic impact: https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk... Trans safety: https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.ed... Model training and fair use case: https://www.debevoise.com/insights/pu... OpenAI losses: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/27/opena... https://www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-th... https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/ope... Description topline is from The Hall of Mirrors by Kraftwerk.