Culture slop: how AI gave Brazil an American 1980s
Culture slop: how AI gave Brazil an American 1980sAlberto EscarlateSep 08, 2026ShareBrazilians love a meme, and they jump on one faster than any other country. It is the Stranger Things aesthetic, straight out of Hawkins, Indiana, in 1985.But I grew up in Brazil in the 1980s, and it didn’t look anything like that.In Rio the decade happened on the beach (where else?). The Ipanema look was shorts and Havaianas, surfwear from Company and Redley.
- ▪Culture slop: how AI gave Brazil an American 1980sAlberto EscarlateSep 08, 2026ShareBrazilians love a meme, and they jump on one faster than any other country.
- ▪It is the Stranger Things aesthetic, straight out of Hawkins, Indiana, in 1985.But I grew up in Brazil in the 1980s, and it didn’t look anything like that.In Rio the decade happened on the beach (where else?).
- ▪The Ipanema look was shorts and Havaianas, surfwear from Company and Redley.
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Culture slop: how AI gave Brazil an American 1980sAlberto EscarlateSep 08, 2026ShareBrazilians love a meme, and they jump on one faster than any other country. This week’s meme was to ask ChatGPT to draw you as you would have looked in the 1980s, and the result is total culture slop.“Celebrities” like Virginia Fonseca, Sabrina Sato and Pedro Scooby have all posted their 1980s versions, and ge, Globo’s sports site, ran 27 soccer players and coaches through it, Neymar and Vini Jr. included.The results all look the same: mullet or perm, leather jacket, an arcade with a Pac-Man cabinet in the background.
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