AI has taken over social media with images that look like Studio Ghibli movies. ChatGPT’s Latest Update. As a result of the “Ghiblification”, a Solana Meme Coin inspired by anime studio hit a market cap of $28,3 millions.
Hayao miyazaki, Studio Ghibli’s co-founder and director of the 2016 documentary “AI: A Disgusting Technology”, is well known for his disdain towards AI. “insult the life” But that didn't stop the meme coin from pumping, with Ghiblification (GHIBLI) skyrocketing to a $28.3 million market cap in less than a day. GHIBLI is now worth about $18.3 million.
This is not the first meme coin to jump on the AI bandwagon. Binance Smart Cable token GhibliCZ (GHIBLI), which is inspired by the "Ghiblified" version of Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao, spiked to a $14.6 million market cap following a related post by the Official Binance X Account. It's now down to $4.3 million.
Shibli Inu and other tokens are also available.SHIBLI)—a Ghibli-style Shiba Inu dog—and Ghibli Doge (GHIBLIDOGEThe value of the shares has since dropped.
OpenAI has made it possible to achieve this trend by reworking ChatGPT to generate images via OpenAI. GPT-4o Model. ChatGPT Plus users can simply upload their photos, and instruct the model to “restyle it in studio Ghibli-style” (or something similar) to receive images of these Ghiblifications.
Here's how you can restyle any image into the viral studio ghibli style:
Upload images in ChatGPT4o
2) Prompt: "restyle image in studio ghibli style keep all details"
3) Wait 2 – 5 min
4) Download and share pic.twitter.com/h5ger1PMWB— Ran (@RanIarovich) March 26, 2025
Studio Ghibli, the studio that created some of the best and most critically acclaimed animated films ever made, is one of the world’s leading animation studios. The studio is known for the serene fantasy animation and its immersive world-building.
Oscar winning film “The Studio’s Popular Film” is the most-watched movie at this studio "Spirited away", The movie has 19th-most fans according to the rating website Postboxes The 28th most rated movie on IMDb— ahead of titles like "Back to the Future," "Alien," and "Psycho." Other notable Ghibli films include "My Neighbor Totoro," "Princess Mononoke," and the Oscar-winning "The Boy and the Heron."
ChatGPT when another Studio Ghibli request comes in pic.twitter.com/NF5sy24GlU
— Justine Moore (@venturetwins) March 26, 2025
Hayao M. Miyazaki, the studio’s co-founder, appears to be against the use of AI. A documentary showing the filmmaker reacting an AI-generated video of a monster-like creature has resurfaced.
Miyazaki told the newspaper that he felt it was an “insult to life itself”. Translation video. I have the feeling that we are approaching the end times. Humans are losing their faith in themselves.
Pump.fun’s decentralized exchange launched a week before GHIBLI. PumpSwapThe token launchpad has seen an increase in interest since PumpSwap’s Friday launch. PumpSwap launched on Friday and has since seen an increase of token launches from 17,624 all the way up to 30,701 – a significant boost in revenue. Dune data.
PumpSwap also helped Morning Routine (ROUTINE( climbed to a market capitalization of $19 million, but has now reversed course and dropped to just $1.4 million. GHIBLI has become the second major meme coin that’s seen success within less than seven-days of the PumpSwap release.
This is a notable increase in the success of meme coins, compared to the weeks prior to PumpSwap's launch. Meme coin momentum stalled over the last couple months amid broader market volatility, along with scandals around prominent coins—such as LIBRA, the Solana token promoted in February by Argentine President Javier Milei, shortly before it crashed.
The Pump.fun industry is still a long way from the all-time record highs it reached in January, when Fartcoin was (FARTCOIN) surpassed a $2 billion market cap. Now, the market cap is about $550million.
Andrew Hayward is the editor
