Written by: BitpushNews

Recently, OpenAI launched a new feature for ChatGPT: inputting any image, and AI can transform it into a "Studio Ghibli" animation style.

Overnight, numerous users entered "Ghiblify me" or "Draw me like a Miyazaki movie" in ChatGPT, or "Ghiblified" classic memes.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also posted his Ghibli-style avatar on X platform, and this dreamy, gentle Miyazaki style quickly went viral, making social networks seem like entering an "anime parallel world".

Tesla CEO Elon Musk supported it: "Theme of the day".

Miyazaki's Dreamy World Meets meme Hype: $600 Turns into $200,000

The crypto world certainly wouldn't miss this opportunity.

Within just 48 hours, dozens of tokens riding the trend emerged on the Solana chain, including Ghiblification, TotoroCoin, SpiritedAway. The craziest $Ghibli (Ghiblification) coin soared from $0.00005 to $0.02, meaning early players could turn $100 into millionaires instantly.

Same old story: no whitepaper, no official website, just a charmingly styled token icon and a project name riding the trend. This is how it ignited the crypto community's emotions.

Twitter account @0xfacairiji seems to be the "lucky goose" in this wave. He wrote that he just "tried buying 600 USDT", unexpectedly $Ghibli was suddenly noticed by big V's, with prices skyrocketing, and his position reached 200,000 USDT, multiplying thousands of times.

He's not a famous KOL, yet his post about this experience went viral.

This is not an isolated case. The entire crypto community began to emerge with similar stories. Many people rushed into Telegram groups, DEX pages, and Reddit discussions, asking "Did you buy?" "When to sell?" "What other Ghibli-themed tokens are there?"

It's hard to explain this scene with traditional financial logic.

This meme coin frenzy is less about faith in a project and more about a collective emotional release.

Coinmarketcap data shows that over the past few months, the meme coin market has been continuously sluggish, with trading volume dropping over 50%. The visual aesthetics of Ghiblify + OpenAI's technological hotspot + the push from two tech giants perfectly filled an emotional vacuum. People don't care "if this is a useful project", but only care "if someone is buying, if it's rising, if others are following".

Artists and Speculators - A Divided World

In Reddit's crypto section, Gen Z is hotly discussing "how to ambush the next meme coin". One user shared a tutorial on using AI to transform his girlfriend's photo into a Ghibli style, and the comment section immediately had people asking: "Give me the token contract address!"

But the art community presents a different scene. Ghibli studio founder Miyazaki publicly stated in a 2016 documentary: "AI is an insult to life."

Now, his visual style is being imitated by AI and spread without compensation, even becoming a gimmick for crypto speculation.

Author Brian Merchant wrote scathingly: "Using Miyazaki's hard work to drive traffic for AI companies is a second injury to the master."

A group of hand-drawn artists launched a joint protest, demanding OpenAI disclose its training data sources. More ironically, Ghibli's official X account's comment section was occupied by meme coin ads, with a tweet "Buy GHIBLI, get NFT avatar" receiving tens of thousands of likes.

Divisions are also emerging within the crypto circle. Once-hot meme coin CHILLGUY, whose market value once exceeded $600 million, has now dropped 95%. Among Ghibli-themed tokens, some teams have been exposed for setting hidden taxes, black hole contracts, and inability to sell, with many who chased the trend becoming bagholders.

So, does this Ghiblify trend have any positive meaning?

It depends on how you understand crypto culture.

If past DeFi was about efficiency and rules, meme coins are more about "emotional value" - a financial manifestation of a social phenomenon, like "I'll invest money just because of your one sentence".

It might be absurd, might be short-lived, and might even be a bubble, but it genuinely captures some changes of the era: the pursuit of narrative, the fantasy of counterattack.

The wind will eventually stop. Whether you've made a fortune in this Ghibli coin wave, are watching from the sidelines, or have been "Ghiblified" into a leek, it's worth maintaining some clarity in the heat:

When you see screenshots claiming "Earned A7 in XX days", remember: the numbers might be AI-generated, and KOL promises might be carefully designed scripts. Behind the crypto market's magic lie countless waiting traps. All FOMO might be at the peak, and behind most wealth stories lie countless silent counterparts.