crungus amongus

The crungus, observed

In June 2022, comedian Guy Kelly typed a word he made up — crungus — into DALL·E mini, and the model answered ten times with the same hairy goat-demon. This archive asks every text-to-image model on Replicate the same question: 1594 images from 83 models, from the word alone.

  1. the typical crungus of 2021, by pixray/text2image2021
  2. the typical crungus of 2022, by tstramer/material-diffusion2022
  3. the typical crungus of 2023, by fofr/sdxl-emoji2023
  4. the typical crungus of 2024, by adirik/realvisxl-v3.0-turbo2024
  5. the typical crungus of 2025, by black-forest-labs/flux-dev2025
  6. the typical crungus of 2026, by openai/gpt-image-1.52026

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