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The Worse It Looks, The Harder It Spreads｜21 prompts
Word for word from r/dalle2 + r/weirddalle OPs · the kind that makes you laughShort English prompts · copy and run in ChatGPT image generation
黃志弘 Leo
Published 2026-05-05 · Updated 2026-10-07 · 1 readers
There are 21 prompts here, the top one with 9.7k upvotes, all in the original posters' own words, none reverse engineered.
Redraw the attached image in the most clumsy, scribbly, and utterly pathetic way possible. Use same color, and make it look like it was drawn in MS Paint with a mouse. It should be vaguely similar but also not really, kind of matching but also off in a confusing, awkward way, with that low-quality pixel-by-pixel feel that really emphasizes how ridiculously bad it is. Actually, you know what, whatever, just draw it however you want.What it is: 2026-05, this blew up overseas. People took handsome shots, glamour shots, CEO portraits and official posters and redrew them as shaky mouse-drawn MS Paint versions, same colors but wobbling all over. The MS Paint version of OpenAI's Sam Altman went viral.How to play: Send one of your own images to ChatGPT image generation with this prompt pasted in. The result will be junk, and you will laugh.
lofi nuclear war to relax and study toWhat it is: A girl studying by the window, a mushroom cloud outside it. The YouTube lofi thumbnail look, exactly.
reddit mod touching grassWhat it is: Takes the internet phrase "touch grass" (go outside, stop being a shut-in) literally. A chubby, blank-faced reddit mod crouching on a lawn, petting the grass.
"Pixar Coronavirus movie"What it is: The virus turned into a cute Pixar hero, teary background, the whole childhood cartoon feel of "the little brave coronavirus".
dashcam footage of a car crashing into shrekWhat it is: Nails the low-quality Reddit dashcam look, plus Shrek charging out of the bushes.
Duolingo trail camWhat it is: A night vision trail cam in the woods catches the green Duolingo owl crouching outside your door, staring at you. You skipped your practice, so it came for you.
my indian dad accidentally taking a selfie with the front camera, squinting because the camera flash is so bright in his faceWhat it is: Every Asian kid knows this one. The dad who cannot work the camera on a smartphone.
healthy food at McDonald'sWhat it is: "Healthy food" served in McDonald's packaging. It ruins the marketing copy in one second.
Jesus turning water into wine on America's Got TalentWhat it is: A Bible miracle staged on a variety show, with Simon Cowell looking unimpressed on the judging panel.
Fisher Price GuillotineWhat it is: The bright yellow, red and blue of the baby toy brand Fisher Price, turned into a toddler version of a French Revolution guillotine.
Freddie Mercury eating ramen inside a washing machineWhat it is: The Queen frontman crouched in the washing machine door with chopsticks and instant noodles, soup flying with the roller motion.
A photo of a confused grizzly bear in calculus classWhat it is: A huge grizzly sitting in a university lecture hall. The whole class is watching it stare at the formulas on the board with no idea what is going on.
Archeologists discovering a plastic chairWhat it is: A dig site with floodlights, brushes and very serious scholars. In the middle of it lies a white plastic garden chair.
overly excited redditor frantically pumping quarters into machine labeled "dalle" to generate more gorillas wearing women's dressesWhat it is: A meta joke about r/dalle2 itself, back when the whole sub was addicted to generating gorillas in dresses. A chubby nerd feeding coins into the machine like his life depends on it.
a medieval painting of the wifi not workingWhat it is: A 21st century Wi-Fi outage painted as a medieval religious oil painting, peasants wailing in front of the router.
Spider-Man from ancient RomeWhat it is: A Roman Spider-Man in armor, with the spider emblem carved into his breastplate.
A bottle of Ranch Dressing testifying in courtWhat it is: The ranch bottle wears a little bow tie, stands in the witness box answering in all seriousness, both hands sworn on the Bible.
Anakin Skywalker vacuuming the beach to remove sandWhat it is: A tribute to the Star Wars line "I don't like sand". Anakin works the beach with a vacuum cleaner, dead serious.
Napoleon Crossing the Alps on a Harley DavidsonWhat it is: The white horse in the painting Napoleon Crossing the Alps, swapped for a Harley.
Neurosurgeons putting ramen inside a man's head as a jokeWhat it is: An open brain surgery, the surgeons throwing a peace sign at the camera, the patient's head packed with instant noodles.
My daughter found a large submarine on the beachWhat it is: A little girl on the beach next to a giant submarine, the scale completely out of control. Shot like a proud mom post on Facebook.
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Source: public pages of Reddit r/dalle2, r/weirddalle and r/ChatGPT (pulled 2026-05-05).
Every English prompt is the real original text, from the OP's comment, selftext, or the title-as-prompt convention. Copyright terms for image tools follow whatever that tool announces.
Every English prompt is the real original text, from the OP's comment, selftext, or the title-as-prompt convention. Copyright terms for image tools follow whatever that tool announces.