Oscar the Grouch Taylor Swift AI Image

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Oscar the Grouch Taylor Swift AI Image is an AI-generated image of Oscar the Grouch from Sesame Street penetrating American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift from behind (often referred to as "backshots") on top of a pile of garbage. The AI image gained virality and reposts on Twitter / X in late 2023, acting as a piece of shock media and inspiring memes.

Origin

Currently, the first-known upload of the Oscar the Grouch and Taylor Swift AI-generated image was on 4chan's /pol/ ^[1] imageboard on October 17th, 2023 (censored version shown below).

The image gained numerous replies in the days that followed. The AI-generated picture was plausibly made with either Midjourney or Stable Diffusion.

Spread

Going into late October 2023, the image was reshared on 4chan's /pol/^[2] and /x/^[3] imageboards. It spread outside of 4chan on October 28th, 2023, when X^[4] user @DARKFAGG0T9000 posted it, writing, "When was Tay on Sesame Street???" gaining over 90 likes in 12 days (shown below, left).

On November 2nd, Spanish-speaking X^[5] user @fetogay captioned it, "oomf keep liking my stories and we'll end up like this," receiving over 1,200 likes in six days (shown below, right).

ASTROTARD9000 @DARKFAGGOT9000 When was Tay on Sesame Street??? 9:29 AM Oct 28, 2023 969 Views :

lana del rey tu patrona y te callas @fetogay oomf sigue dandole like a mis stories y vamos a terminar así end 2:04 PM . Nov 3, 2023 57.7K Views

The image gained increased virality on November 9th, 2023, when X^[6] user @kirawontmiss posted the Withered Wojak image with a caption reading, "whoever made that Ai generated image of oscar the grouch blowing taylor swift back on a pile of garbage is going to heII," receiving over 28,000 likes in two hours (shown below).