Marjane Satrapi Drops Savage Truth Bomb About AI Art, Internet Struggles to Tell If She’s Joking or Just Over It
In an interview that’s now ripping through X and TikTok, the Persepolis creator casually declared that anyone using AI to make art “has the soul of a photocopier.” The clip went viral not just for the burn, but because she said it with the exact deadpan expression of a woman who has seen too many bad digital portraits of her own graphic novel characters. Meme historians are pointing out the delicious irony: decades ago, Satrapi’s own raw, black-and-white style was dismissed by publishers as “too simple for real art.” Now she’s the gatekeeper. The internet is split between worshipping her as a prophet and joking that she’s just mad because AI can’t replicate her signature “angry eyebrow” pen stroke. Cue the remixes of her panels with robot overlords.