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What is $Ghibli?
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Ghibli style refers to the unique visual style of animation works created by the famous Japanese Studio Ghibli. Studio Ghibli was also co-founded by the famous Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki and his partners. There are countless well-known works from Studio Ghibli, such as Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle and so on.
The formation of the Ghibli style can be traced back to Hayao Miyazaki's early creative experience. The Ghibli style is characterized by gouache texture, high-saturation color expression and unique character images. When mentioning Ghibli, many people will easily and intuitively present a set of refreshing pictures such as a combination of blue sky + green grass in their minds. The distinctive Ghibli has become a classic painting style in the traditional animation and game industry. Since AIGC became popular in 2022, AI mapping technology has also developed rapidly. At the same time, the Ghibli style has also been adopted by leading AI mapping models such as Midjourney and Stablediffusion. In recent years, many Ghibli-style AI secondary creations have also appeared.
The explosion of $Ghibli tokens has to start with the update of GPT-4o's mapping function. Yesterday, GPT-4o's mapping function ushered in a wave of major updates. The Picture-to-Image function can be directly used in the GPT-4o dialogue bar. Specifically, give GPT a picture, and then enter a simple natural language command. GPT can generate a new picture based on the original picture and the command, such as, Change the picture to the Ghibli cartoon style.
Although this style-changing technology was relatively mature two years ago, the update of GPT-4o has lowered the threshold for AI mapping, and AI users can easily operate the image-to-image function without professional AI mapping software. The lower threshold for use and the fun of Ghibli-style secondary creation have made Ghibli-style pictures spread virally on social media since yesterday. A token named $Ghibli appeared on Pump.Fun. The token icon is the avatar of Pump.Fun founder @a1lon9 generated in the Ghibli style.
Obviously, the $Ghibli concept narrative is simple and direct, just riding on the popularity of this wave of AI mapping. However, $Ghibli did not attract much attention at the beginning of its launch, and X user @Kris7146 pointed out that the $Ghibli token chips were seriously bundled. However, many on-chain vehicles continued to buy, and the price of $Ghibli continued to rise. After the $JellyJelly incident ended last night, the market value of $Ghibli hovered around 3 million US dollars.
Sam Altman updated the X account avatar to a Ghibli-style picture. After the community discovered it, the price of $Ghibli soared from the market value of 3 million US dollars. However, this is not the end. Musk released a picture of the Lion King + self-portrait + Doge in the style of Ghibli, and wrote Today's Theme. With the support of the big guys, the price of $Ghibli can't stop, rising all the way to a market value of 28 million US dollars and then falling back. The current market value is around 20 million US dollars.
The popularity of $Ghibli is essentially the spread of market sentiment to gather attention and liquidity on the chain, and there is nothing particularly outstanding in terms of innovative narrative. However, for Meme tokens, whether the narrative is hardcore is only one of many influencing factors. When the market feels it, the rise will naturally come as expected.
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