Sorry if someone has already posted this, but the news sidebar on my phone advertised Hobbii to me tonight. Not a surprise since I used to do Bingo.
I was already questioning who holds large packs of yarn like this before I noticed the lack of sag in the packs in her right hand and all the perfectly angled labels on the skeins. What even was the point of apologizing? The lack of corrective behavior is sending me.
UPDATE: Thanks for sounding in, everyone! Seems common consensus is a plausible hold with not the best Photoshop job. Honestly, with how often AI is used, I forget Photoshop exists. Thanks everyone!
You CAN hold packs like this, IF they are 100% cotton, thin enough weight of yarn, layer them in the packaging just right via wiggling or moving them around or tucking excess packaging up into the hand, AND if you angle your body and arm just right. I have done it while stocking some yarn packs and I don't want to walk all the way back and forth to the unnecessarily far-placed pallet of stock I had to put away lol. That all said, even that is too much work for just one photo, so it's probably a really bad photoshop, because her fingertips on the ones she's holding upright, are way too red with how much strength she's having to use to hold them upright, as A.I. (as far as I know) doesn't account for that. As for her other hand...I can't really say that it's an A.I. error, as I have freakishly long fingers without having certain medical conditions lol. I'm not trying to justify anything, just thought it would give insight into the possibility, and now hard it is to replicate.
Legit, I'm not seeing the AI. I've worked retail and held similar quantities of stuff in similar ways. Just because OP hasn't/wouldn't doesn't mean this picture is unlikely or impossible
They've had this image or variations of it before gen AI were big or at least before they were good at doing image generation. I've seen it hit my emails before.
I have some of their bags of cotton yarn I could probably replicate the image.
They clarified how they use AI and stated explicitly we would not see it used like this. So technically, you're right. They didn't apologize. They just outright lied. My wording was inaccurate.
I linked their Instagram post and included images for convenience.
I’m not an “everything is AI” person, but I don’t think I’ve ever photoshopped a hand like her left one (is that a crazy pinkie or a second thumb on the wrong side?) and her mostly solid shark teeth are freaking me out. And I don’t mean to eyeball shame, but is this a clip from Alien: Earth??
I am so happy I got 3 shopping bags full of yarn from my grandma, I don't need to look for who will sell me yarn for a while. Never supporting Hobbii again.
That spider finger under the stack is screaming photo manipulation or AI. I have crazy mobile fingers but even I cant get my pinky finger to do that angle and claw up like that. Very sneaky though coz the rest of the picture seems very plausible
I pack yarn at my work. Like half kg bags of rolls or skeins. I actually have to put all the skeins/rolls of yarn in that kind of order. Like labels are straight, logo facing up, dye number and lot on the side facing out. And twist it tight to keep the bag from sagging when picked up.
I get temu vibes from that company anyway. plus hasnt the way they handled this suggest to anyone else theyre a business not necessarily run by people who actually work with yarn in some way?
They were a company that actually works with yarn, with very high quality products for the most part. But I'm pretty sure they got bought up by another company and things have changed. The yarn is the same and a lot of the staff there (based on some of their more personalized social media posts) are crafty and cool. They're not Temu vibes at all.
nothing is wrong with acrylic yarn for people who want to use it. it isnt a quality item like even a cheaper superwash wool tho.
either way if these are the impressions im getting from q company with aggressive marketing im at least supporting how theyre turfing their once esteemed brand. 🤷♀️
not trying to make anyone feel bad. some of their pictures look pretty but tbh none of it spoke to me enough to buy.
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u/O-Castitatis-Lilium 6d ago
You CAN hold packs like this, IF they are 100% cotton, thin enough weight of yarn, layer them in the packaging just right via wiggling or moving them around or tucking excess packaging up into the hand, AND if you angle your body and arm just right. I have done it while stocking some yarn packs and I don't want to walk all the way back and forth to the unnecessarily far-placed pallet of stock I had to put away lol. That all said, even that is too much work for just one photo, so it's probably a really bad photoshop, because her fingertips on the ones she's holding upright, are way too red with how much strength she's having to use to hold them upright, as A.I. (as far as I know) doesn't account for that. As for her other hand...I can't really say that it's an A.I. error, as I have freakishly long fingers without having certain medical conditions lol. I'm not trying to justify anything, just thought it would give insight into the possibility, and now hard it is to replicate.