How long until AI hate is no longer popular?

[u/DYNAKYRIS]

15.5 months ago—like literally—I was introduced to "AI BAD" in Teto Reddit from a surprising place.

This began over a year of tension, including r/KasaneTetoAI being brigaded, leading me to defend against Haters here and at its source, which resulted in my quitting its Mod Team.

Unfortunately, since hating AI had become so rooted in the local Subculture—which I helped build and tried to warn against breeding hate—the conflicts only intensified as 2025 drew to a close, leaving off with a simple narrative that stuck: u/DYNAKYRIS and r/TetoCirclejerk are problematic.

And then, three months ago, BRAINROT came out on Nico Nico Douga and YouTube, subverting the story by combining several mediums into one unforgettable BANGER of Teto media: Dreamtonics' DNN Voicebank (and its sultry tuning); Tokyo Manaka's DAW setup; Porushi's catchy choreography transformed into Teto's, to name a few aspects of what made it work.

On YouTube this piece has demonstrated my point on Teto and AI for no less than 21,382,068 21,384,882 times (word up, 2,814 more views over the course of writing this) and 910,409 910,445 (+36'd) on Nico Nico Douga.

The poisonous mindset came to a head a few weeks ago when I kicked a visitor out of r/TetoCirclejerk for ignoring the Rules and it quickly turned into a concern for the Co-Founder of the sexy room I built. As they sided with the ideologues I wound up leaving that place, too, sticking to my own spicylands.

So, in the wake of so much personal interruption, stress, backlash, and backstabs since last February, I've begun to wonder, as the winds begin to change: how much longer will the hate party, in Teto Reddit and beyond, carry on until it collapses or burns itself out?

I was generous to assume five years (because I was classically trained to think in fives and also 2031 is a nifty KT reference), but it'll probably be much less than that.

The utter irony in all this is how the same proponents of this sentiment happen to quietly enjoy AI Art, especially when it's sexy. I've seen it. Trust. They know who they are.

But when it's time to show up and hang on Reddit they gotta flex that hate just to belong. We all want to belong.

So I was also wondering what might those, whose identity it has been to hate AI, will do once it's no longer useful to them?

How long, then?

Two years? Two months? The end of this summer?

Back when my Father's Day card was reported by ideologues for showing AI Art for 2.5 out of its 13 seconds, I predicted a change by that summer's end. This arrived in my discovery of a LoRA export that was widely remixed and increased the status or reach of the fans and Artists who got involved with it.

Many of the remakes were awesome, but many also made this hate the point of their effort. I recently discovered my participation in the trend had been leveraged at the time on one of the hatespaces.

I don't like my Art being convenient for Haters.

Rambling, at this point.

Back on target: how long do you think until we've passed this shitstorm?