Why Ghibli Has Taken the Internet by Storm: A Deep Dive into Its Magic

Mar 28, 2025 Komal Das Plus

Sam Altman’s Ghibli-style profile pic sparked a trend, with ChatGPT users creating Ghibli-inspired art using GPT-4o

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OpenAI’s model lets you generate Ghibli-style art by uploading a photo and prompting, “Create a Studio Ghibli version” for social media

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Studio Ghibli, founded in 1985, is a famous Japanese animation studio known for its beautiful films like Spirited Away and Grave of the Fireflies

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The Ghibli trend soared as people transformed their favorite moments into Ghibli-style art, with many Indians also searching online to create their own

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Sam Altman joked, "After years of work, I wake up to hundreds of messages: ‘I made you into a twink Ghibli style haha'

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Hayao Miyazaki rejected AI imagery as "creepy," with a user on ‘X’ lamenting Ghibli’s style being "sloppified by linear algebra"

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Leonardo DiCaprio introduced Martin Scorsese to Spirited Away, with Scorsese saying, "It was Spirited Away you told me to watch

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