Someone called it “AI crap.”

We called it an opportunity to sip tea in front of a collapsing timeline.

Elegance is the only reasonable response to digital outrage.

This post was assisted by Automaton Improvisation. Blame any errors on the temporal interference.

Facebook, 15th May 2025.

A refined Victorian steampunk gentleman with a curled moustache, wearing a top hat with goggles, a brown leather coat, and a waistcoat, stands calmly sipping tea from a porcelain cup and saucer. Behind him, glowing lightning bolts crackle through a dark sky filled with floating brass gears and clock faces, as though time itself is fracturing. Bold white text above and below reads: “Someone commented: ‘AI crap’ — so naturally, I wore my finest temporal composure. Steampunk forever.”

📜 Meme Explanation:

This meme is a witty response to the criticism often aimed at AI-generated art, in this case labelled dismissively as “AI crap.” Rather than engage in a defensive or angry rebuttal, the image portrays a refined Victorian gentleman in full steampunk regalia — top hat, goggles, and all — sipping tea with complete composure as lightning crackles and gears float in the collapsing fabric of time.

The caption “Someone commented: ‘AI crap’ — so naturally, I wore my finest temporal composure. Steampunk forever.” reframes the insult into an opportunity for dramatic elegance, turning the comment into a moment of theatrical defiance. The “finest temporal composure” line humorously suggests that, when time itself unravels (whether literally or in the heated arguments of the internet), the best thing one can do is remain poised, stylish, and unapologetically steampunk. It’s part of a larger trend in the steampunk community of meeting modern absurdity with anachronistic grace.