Nov 112025
I came across this meme earlier today:
For the first time in history, you can say “He is an idiot” and 90% of the world will know whom you are talking about.
In an inspired moment, I fed this sentence, unaltered, to Midjourney. Midjourney 6.1 to be exact.
Our AI friends are… fun.
It’s amusing to see that even LLM is prone to unjustified exaggerations! China and India together make about 2.8 billions of people. Let’s drop in Indonesia to get over 3 billions for sure… To make 90% of the world we need most of these fine people really care a bit too much of US president. I dare to suspect they don’t care that much!
I’d call it “eurocentrism” again – unless, of course, mr Trump is not exactly in Europe. Just don’t know how we call the world stemming out from Europe historically (e.g. including US, Canada and Australia). I’d like to know what (whom) Chinese/Indians really would think of…
BTW as here exists some novel “Idiot” of local culture importance, here is slightly higher concentration of memes and puns on it (e.g. book covers with pictures of seated Keanu Reeves or Forrest Gump with the title… so this just makes one more version)
The exaggeration (90%) is not from an LLM, but from a human comment. And the fact that it is “properly” interpreted by Midjourney is not so much about eurocentrism as it is about the fact that its training corpus is dominated by English-language sources.
Having said that, I just chatted with Qwen, a Chinese model from Alibaba:
Q: I just saw this meme: “For the first time in history, you can say ‘He is an idiot’ and 90% of the world will know whom you are talking about.” Do you know who they might be talking about?
A: The meme you described is likely referring to Donald Trump. The phrase “He is an idiot” became a common way to refer to Trump, particularly in the context of his presidency and subsequent political activities. The meme suggests that with Trump, the phrase has become so iconic and widely understood that it can be used generically to refer to him, even among people who may not know the specifics of his actions or policies.