been enjoying the drifella 2 🕳️
still new but noticing several (overlapping) styles including:
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Added Sep 12, 2025, 7:41 PM
each one is a nostalgia-driven internet culture bomb exploding in a native format and logic
in detail and from above, it all just works so well
clearly never left the cave all day
if gen ai is distilling an extractive, corporate version of the internet, this feel like the internet at its purest, a hyper-cynical idealism
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Added Sep 12, 2025, 8:53 PM
take this one
compositionally, texturally—even face expressionally—and emotionally it reads as a '90s baseball card. it's even scratched up; maybe your little sibling put stickers on the bottom
but something is off, too
Monk Antony (@monkantony_tez): each one is a nostalgia-driven internet culture bomb exploding in a native format and logic
in detail and from above, it all just works so well
the background isn't a field; it's from yugioh
the lip-biting baseball player is a drifella
that's a harley quinn not a baseball bat
that's no uniform! it's a tee from paris-based japanese fashion label comme des garçons
and the tattoo references manga villains Phantom Troupe
and that's 1 of 9,902
it's incredibly culturally dense on both a micro and macro level; it's brilliant
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Monk Antony (@monkantony_tez): been enjoying the drifella 2 🕳️
still new but noticing several (overlapping) styles including:
| traitmaxxed | clean | | funny | unique |
🔻
Monk Antony (@monkantony_tez): take this one
compositionally, texturally—even face expressionally—and emotionally it reads as a '90s baseball card. it's even scratched up; maybe your little sibling put stickers on the bottom
but something is off, too x.com/monkantony_tez…