Bragging about accidental internet celebrities
Happy Caturday, humans! Adam here 👋
This is my newsletter where I share cool stuff people do on the internet.
You might remember me from my CatGPT 🐈⬛ project. I created it in a single day to show that people can make fun stuff with AI, and millions of people loved it!! 😻
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You know what I love about the internet?
You can put something out, and never quite know what people are gonna get attached to. Even the most random stuff!! 😻
And this week’s “accidental celebrities” are a pretty great example of that.
This week we’re bragging about:
A 4-foot Polish-speaking robot that two friends created (and that accidentally racked up 4 billion views chasing wild boars! 🐗)
A family-friendly OnlyFans channel (!!!) that researchers launched to save a 64-year marmot study 🦦
A tiny stop-motion grandma getting demonetized for being “AI” 👵 but was actually created by animators who spent 2,000 hours hand-crafting it
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Two friends taught a 4-foot robot Polish. Now it’s chasing wild boars through Warsaw
Earlier this year, Bartosz Idzik and Radosław Grzelaczyk bought a 4-foot humanoid robot 🤖🚶named Edward and started taking it around Poland. There was just one problem:
It made people extremely uncomfortable 😱.
So Bartosz connected it to AI so it could chat in Polish, and suddenly
Edward Warchocki (the robot!) was making friends!! He’s since visited parliament, hiked mountains, chased wild boars through Warsaw, and he even got "arrested" by the police 👮 I’ve gotta admit…
This “boar patrol” clip is pretty funny 😹👇
Edward’s adventures have since racked up more than 1 million followers and roughly 4 BILLION views across social platforms.
Turns out all this robot needed was a personality 🧡
Bartosz and Radosław… way to give a robot the gift of gab!! 👏👏
Researchers who put marmots on OnlyFans to save a 64-year old study
When federal funding dried up for a 64-year marmot study in Colorado, two researchers got creative…
Daniel Blumstein, a UCLA professor, suggested an unusual way to bring in money.
Emily Renkey, a grad student in his lab, helped make it happen… and OnlyMarms was born 🦦😂
It’s a free, completely family-friendly OnlyFans account 🫣 where you can watch marmots (named Jamba Juice 🥤 and Egg 🍳) munching grass, lounging in the sun, and living their best wild lives.
You can leave a tip to support Daniel and Emily’s research too👇
Together, OnlyFans tips, crypto-related donations and other contributions raised over $100,000 for the project 🤯.
Daniel and Emily… I swear this is my first time on OF, but from what I could see, you both are totally worth bragging about!! 🤩👏👏
Two animators who went viral after YouTube accused their “tiny grandma” of being AI Slop
You’ve probably heard the term “AI slop.” But imagine spending 2,000 hours 🤯 making something by hand… only for YouTube to decide it looks “inauthentic.”
That’s what happened to 
Marie Hart and 
Peter Heacock, who make videos of a 6-inch Korean grandma cooking real food 👵🍚 Marie makes the puppets, and Pete moves them frame by frame.
So when YouTube cut off their ad revenue, Marie and Pete decided to show everyone what goes into bringing her to life.
Does this tiny grandma look like AI slop to you?? 😹👇
That little mix-up actually ended up introducing Tiny Grandma to a whole lot more people. Posts that used to get tens of thousands of views suddenly started crossing 2 MILLION.
Go Marie and Pete!! 👏👏
Which story deserves a round of ap-paws? 👏🐾 |
This week we bragged about a robot chasing wild boars 🤖 , marmots with an OnlyFans 🦦, and the creators of Tiny (not AI) Grandma 👵 who got flagged by YouTube for “inauthentic content.”
Seeing crazy projects like these makes me wonder how many other fun things we never get to see because someone thought, “Nobody’s going to care about this.”
Y’all, if you’re working on something a little unusual… show somebody this weekend!!
You don’t have to know who it’s for yet. I’m pretty sure most of us didn’t know we wanted to watch a robot chase boars until Edward came along 😹 And if you want to show me, hit reply.
I’d love to see what you’re making. You’re worth bragging about, too 🧡
 Adam Bragg |
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