The trend of Solana Meme has changed rapidly, the $Ghibli fast track has reached a market capitalization of 28 million.

Written by: Deep Tide TechFlow

The trend in the Meme market can change quickly. Today, most Meme players’ attention is drawn to $Ghibli - within less than a day of its launch, it reached a market cap of 28 million dollars.

Social media is also full of AI-generated images in the Ghibli style, even Sam Altman and Elon Musk are joining in on the fun, and crypto project teams are also urgently getting in on it, creating many Ghibli-style derivatives.

A quick introduction to the ins and outs of entering the quick access token $Ghibli.

Ghibli? Ghibli? AI Ghibli?

Ghibli (hereinafter referred to as Ghibli) style refers to the unique visual style presented in animated works created by the famous Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli. The Ghibli studio was co-founded by renowned Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki and his partners. The studio has produced countless well-known works, such as Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, and Howl’s Moving Castle, which are all household names in the world of animation.

The formation of the Ghibli painting style can be traced back to Hayao Miyazaki’s early creative experiences. The Ghibli painting style is characterized by its watercolor texture, high saturation colors, and unique character designs. When Ghibli is mentioned, many people can easily visualize a refreshing image consisting of combinations like blue skies and green grass.

Master Hayao Miyazaki’s last work “The Wind Rises”

Ghibli Style + AI

The distinctive Ghibli style has become a classic painting style in traditional animation and the gaming industry. Since the rise of AIGC in 2022, AI imaging technology has rapidly developed, and the Ghibli style has also been adopted by leading AI imaging models like Midjourney and Stablediffusion. In recent years, many AI creations in the Ghibli style have emerged.

The copyright issues surrounding AI-generated art have always been controversial, but as early as a few years ago, Hayao Miyazaki expressed his skepticism about AI-generated art, stating directly that “this is an insult to life.”

How did $Ghibli become popular?

The explosive popularity of the $Ghibli token can be traced back to the update of the GPT-4o drawing feature.

Yesterday, the image generation feature of GPT-4o received a major update, allowing users to directly use the “image-to-image” function within the GPT-4o chat interface. Specifically, this means giving GPT an image and then inputting simple natural language instructions, after which GPT can generate a new image based on the original image and the instructions, such as: “Transform the image into a Ghibli cartoon style.”

Although this technology for changing the style of images has been relatively mature for two years, the update of GPT-4o has lowered the threshold for AI image generation, allowing AI users to easily operate the “image-to-image” function without needing professional AI image generation software.

The lowered barrier to entry, combined with the fun of Ghibli-style fan art, has led to Ghibli-style images going viral on social media since yesterday.

Until around 6 PM yesterday, a token named $Ghibli appeared on Pump.Fun. The token icon is the avatar of Pump.Fun founder @a1lon9 generated in the style of Studio Ghibli.

It is clear that the $Ghibli concept narrative is simple and straightforward, just riding the wave of the rapid dissemination of AI-generated images. However, $Ghibli did not attract much attention when it first launched, and X user @Kris7146 pointed out that the $Ghibli token is severely chip-bundled.

However, with numerous on-chain buy-ins, the price of $Ghibli continues to rise, hovering around a market capitalization of 3 million USD after the $JellyJelly incident ended last night.

In the early hours of today, Sam Altman updated the profile picture of his X account to an image in the style of Studio Ghibli. After the community discovered this, the price of $Ghibli skyrocketed from a market value of 3 million dollars. However, that’s not all. At 6:33 AM, Musk posted a meme combining elements of Studio Ghibli’s style with The Lion King, a self-portrait, and Doge, captioned “Today’s theme.”

With the backing of the big players, the price of $Ghibli has soared and then dropped after reaching a market value of 28 million USD, currently hovering around a market value of 20 million USD.

The explosive popularity of $Ghibli is essentially the attention and liquidity generated by the dissemination of market sentiment on the hype chain, and it does not stand out in terms of innovative narratives. However, for meme tokens, whether the narrative is hardcore is just one of many influencing factors; when the market “feels it,” the rise naturally follows.

As an ordinary participant, when feeling the market rhythm with real money, don’t get carried away, and pay attention to the scale.

(PS: Besides the Ghibli style, GPT-4o’s drawing capabilities also offer a variety of styles to explore.)