It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when AI-generated “slop,” as it’s being called, began infiltrating your Instagram feed. All I know is that one day, cartoonish videos of cats as barbers and the Sex and the City characters as Victorian-era women showed up alongside the, uh, more normal Reels.

The chronically online know one genre that lives underneath the AI umbrella: “ Italian brainrot. ” This name comes from the audio (a man speaking Italian gibberish) as well as the characters’ names. The characters in question? Half-animals or people, half-everyday objects doing ordinary things. You know, like a three-legged shark wearing sneakers or a baseball bat-yielding log.

Among them are Ballerina Cappuccina and Espresso Signora . The former is quite literally a ballerina with a mug of cappuc

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