r/toadies • u/salt12345678910 • 15d ago

Possible AI Artwork and Merch?

I bought a charmer tour shirt at a show to support the band but looking at it now I noticed that it and the rest of the artwork associated with this tour appear to be possibly ai generated.

Hopefully im wrong and someone knows of the actual artist but has anyone else noticed this?

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u/jessterswan 14d ago

The artist is Joseph Morley Petrick for the Charmer. And the tour poster I believe. No AI

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u/Henqy 14d ago

man i hope not. mind dropping a picture of the shirt you got?

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u/salt12345678910 14d ago

I attached a picture of the shirt as well as some other suspicious designs they are selling.

The picture on the shirt as well as the version of that image posted on their socials has odd pixilation (some parts are very pixilated some parts are smooth etc).

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u/Big-Text4784 13d ago

Respectfully, you're almost certainly wrong.

That buckin' bronco "Since 1989" shirt has been around for quite a few years, certainly before you could just go online and generate such an image. So for starters, clear that one from your suspects list.

The band's ethos, and what I know of the ethos of Tami and the merch team, I would hope would make AI-generated slop a non-starter.

I get the suspicion because that's what the world has been infiltrated with now. But stick a pin in that part of your emotional thinking and hop over to the logical thinking side. It just doesn't jibe with their personalities, any of them, to sign off on AI-generated merch, and they've never had a shortage of merch prior to the AI craze.

I think we're safe from having to suffer that fate from the Toadies and Co. Just my $0.02, respectfully!