It all started, as things always begin on the Internet, with a user on social networks flying an unasquible flag for the rest, an unattainable top: an AI does something better and faster than the rest. Only this time bone touched: the hordes of Speedrunners of Photoshop They were willing to claim human talent, even if it were something as apparently useless as the yolk of an egg.
Blue eggs: Origins. The phenomenon began on August 11, 2025, when the X @Multimodalart user promoted the image generator by Alibaba Qwen-image Highlighting that very few models could, for example, create a fried egg with blue yolk. The reason: the models of AI learn patterns of real images (that is, eggs with always yellow or orange yolk), which presents difficulties for this type of generators by not starting from a real model. First answerwhich summarizes the future of events and that we save translate: “You can do in photoshop you retard”.
World records begin. The first viral response response came quickly: user @isthisa3dmodel tweeted that That could be done in Photoshop in 30 seconds. And then the demonstrations began to arrive: @c_over_d_eq_pi He did it in just five seconds and he continued to purify the technique until he reached some fulminants 0.12 seconds of time. But the competition had only begun, and like every good meme of “Doom in places“The tests in tools much simpler than Photosop began arriving.
Egg avalanche. When the X user @ceee asked for participation in the challenge of users who did not strengthen experts, began to arrive Speedrunners that used much more elementary and accessible tools than Photoshop. For example, @Pantoya It achieved very competent results with an image editing tool on the mobile. AND @v2tism He did it with Clip Studio Paint, revealing the secret: it can literally be done with any tool that allows layer edition.
What’s behind. The challenge of the yellow yolk is more than a kind tangan (the blood did not reach the river at any time): it is the perfect thermometer of the current vision we have on the Internet of the amazing advances of the image editing tools with AI. The clash raised, thanks to the ironic and carefree tone of the responses, that perhaps the artificial intelligences enthusiasts were overvaluing the abilities of AI: as one of the contestants said, perhaps the interesting thing is not that they can now paint a yolk in blue, but until now they could not and sold us as the panacea. What gives us lessons about their abilities of the present.
A debate from the past. The absolutely spectacular capabilities of new tools, Like Google Banana Nanocapable of making very advanced editions from Prompts Very simple (and yes, we have tried it: simply with “paint the yolk of this egg” blue ” The result is impeccable) They keep the background of the debate. It is no longer about whether the AI understands the blue yolk or not: it is about whether it is necessary that we replace all manual, artisanal and traditional works with automatic equivalents. It is a debate that is far from finishing.
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