Originally published on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.

The following prompts were submitted to an image-generation service over the course of a century. The user has since been suspended.

Prompt 1
Create a timeless late-Victorian oil painting of the most beautiful boy in the world (me). Comely features. Lovely. Fair. Debonair and aristocratic. Use only the finest materials—expensive primers, paints, rare pigments—to conjure an illusion of wealth. A cursed, opulent portrait sucking up every wrinkle that would otherwise ravage my flawless, eternally youthful complexion. ➡️

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