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ChatGPT Character Creation Prompts

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8 SIGNALSFIRST DETECTED 23 March 2026UPDATED 13 May 2026
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The thread starts on March 23rd, when someone fed ChatGPT a prompt asking it to conjure the most bizarre man imaginable and found the result funny enough to post — complete with the full emoji complement of laughing tears. The internet registered it briefly, then moved on. Nearly two months passed. Then, on May 13th, a second prompt surfaced in the same loose genre: "Generate a picture of the most obnoxious guy ever." Same creative instinct, different platform function — this one reaching toward image generation rather than text. Two data points across fifty days, both essentially the same joke told twice. That is the complete chronology.

If confirmed as a genuine pattern rather than coincidence, what this actually describes is something quietly interesting: people have started using ChatGPT as a collaborative absurdist comedian, feeding it social archetypes at the extreme end and watching what it produces. The "most obnoxious guy ever" prompt is not really about the output — it is about testing where the model's social awareness lives, whether it can recognise and render a cultural caricature with accuracy and wit. If that use case is spreading, it says something real about how people are finding emotional permission with these tools. Less productivity assistant, more improv partner.

Watch for whether this prompt style — extreme character archetypes, social caricatures, deliberate absurdism — starts generating enough volume to constitute a trend rather than two people having the same idea independently.

How the story developed
29 Jun
Caillou the crackhead
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23 Jun
Generate a picture of my arch nemesis
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30 May
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13 May
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24 Apr
I used GPT-image-2, and its actually next level

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13 May
Generate photograph: Lamp that looks almost real but distorted in a subtle and uncanny way, so it doesn't look quite right but the viewer can't figure out why right away

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1tc7lc9/generate_photograph_lamp_that_looks_almost_real/"> <img alt="Generate photograph: Lamp that looks

OPINION · WHAT · ChatGPTOPEN STORY
18 May
ChatGPT leaked another user's image to me

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OPINION · WHAT · ChatGPTOPEN STORY
2 Apr
wtf? Is ChatGPT leaking other peoples uploads?

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1sa7kj3/wtf_is_chatgpt_leaking_other_peoples_uploads/"> <img alt="wtf? Is ChatGPT leaking other peoples

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13 May
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<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1tbp5op/really_the_game_begins_chatgpt_image_2_hailuo_ai/"> <img alt="Really, the game begins ChatGPT Image 2 +

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25 Apr
Picked a random person from a generated image and followed their day in 1 hour increments.

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1svbu2z/picked_a_random_person_from_a_generated_image_and/"> <img alt="Picked a random person from a generated

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23 Mar
Deep or not?

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1s1gd64/deep_or_not/"> <img alt="Deep or not?"

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28 Apr
For the first time, a robot has defeated a human verification

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1syhbc9/for_the_first_time_a_robot_has_defeated_a_human/"> <img alt="For the first time, a robot has defeated a

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