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So, let's try something weirder. Top left: "pixelated". Top right: "8-bit". Bottom left: "low-poly". Bottom right: "HD". Top left Obama keeps turning in different directions. Bottom right Obama keeps extending his neck. I do not know what's up with that.
Enough grayscale, though! Let's try some color stuff. Left: "color". Right: "colorful". Unsurprisingly, both are brighter and more stylized than the default Obamas, and "colorful" moreso than just "color". Top-left Obama is acting weird again.
And with these two, I'm going in the other direction: right is Barack Obama::1.5 and left is Barack Obama::2. We've still got some questionable, Wish-dot-com presidents here, but I think they look more Obama-esque, while not being any less grayscale.
Here's what I get if I increase the weight of "grayscale" in the prompt. Left is grayscale::1.5 and right is grayscale::2. The more weight I give to the non-Obama terms, the less Obama the image gets.
So. With that out of the way, let's try some variations. The full prompt here is "Barack Obama::1 grayscale::1 --ar 2:3 --seed 1". I notice that there's a little bit more change happening here than JUST the color saturation. And that's kind of interesting.
That "::1" bit defines the weight or importance of the term (1 being the default), "--ar 2:3" is the aspect ratio, and "--seed 1" sets the seed for the generator so that I can get more consistent results. Running the same prompt again produces ALMOST identical Obamas.
I'm testing out different prompt modifiers with help from Midjourney Obama. He doesn't QUITE look like the real Obama, but he does at least look like a human being, which can be difficult for this AI. The prompt I used here was "Barack Obama::1 --ar 2:3 --seed 1".
These were generated from "undervalued torpid gimmicky blandishment". I can't take any credit, here. I'm just sifting through random visualizations of the collective unconscious, at this point.
...Anyway, to be clear, the King in Blue is not intruding on literally all of my Midjourney stuff. For example, I thought about Welcome to Night Vale and asked the AI to generate the Glow Cloud. No blue guy! Not even a Hooded Figure.
Still getting the blue guy in Midjourney. So I leaned into it and asked for "The King in Blue".