Overview
- Digital artist Alexis Franklin said she painted the on-screen meme at director David Frankel’s request and posted a time-lapse of her process as proof.
- The brief gag shows Miranda Priestly in a fast-food uniform with the line “Would you like some lies with that?” during a fictional online pile-on in the film.
- Franklin said she was not told to mimic AI and aimed for a cheap, plastic 2010s meme look, which led viewers to read AI-style cues like blurred lettering.
- Her posts drew millions of views as many praised the production for hiring a human artist, though some still doubted the authorship despite the footage.
- Franklin called the skepticism a sign of mass hypervigilance toward AI, warning that reflexive disbelief can hurt working artists who now feel pressure to document how they create.