{"id":1793467,"date":"2026-02-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1793467"},"modified":"2026-02-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:00:00","slug":"emmure-slammed-for-ai-simpsons-style-announcement-frankie-palmeri-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1793467","title":{"rendered":"EMMURE Slammed For AI &#8220;Simpsons-Style&#8221; Announcement, FRANKIE PALMERI Responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/cdn-p.smehost.net\/sites\/7f9737f2506941499994d771a29ad47a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ai-frankie.png&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"zox-post-body left zoxrel zox100\">\n<div id=\"884\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Emmure<\/strong> found themselves in hot water online after releasing an announcement video for their appearance at the Orlando, FL stop of this year&#8217;s Vans Warped Tour. The clip featured frontman <strong>Frankie Palmeri<\/strong> animated in a style reminiscent of <em>The Simpsons<\/em>, prompting backlash from fans who criticized the band for using AI instead of commissioning a human artist.<\/p>\n<p>One user called out the band on social media: &#8220;All the money y&#8217;all make &amp; you can&#8217;t hire an artist to make this, instead you use ai?&#8221; <strong>Palmeri<\/strong> fired back, explaining the reasoning behind the decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have an artist I work with regularly when I aim to make content like this,&#8221; <strong>Palmeri<\/strong> wrote. &#8220;Due to time restrictions, they weren&#8217;t able to produce the content without cutting corners. To be completely honest, I didn&#8217;t even want to make anything for this announcement. But, with respect to @vanswarpedtour and @kevinlyman I went ahead and made an announcement video clip. That&#8217;s all this is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;You and countless other people have made such an incredibly, unnecessarily harsh critique about something so innocuous I&#8217;m actually shocked. Sorry I didn&#8217;t want to pretend to smile at a camera and talk about a &#8216;punk rock&#8217; fest, that of which I never even asked to be a part of to begin with. After 9 albums, a dozen music videos, countless live shows, the fucking audacity to lambast me over 15 seconds of &#8216;artificial&#8217; art is astonishing. Thanks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And sure, time constraints are time constraints. But the guy couldn&#8217;t have just done a quick voicevoer? Also, his comment about having to &#8220;talk about a &#8216;punk rock&#8217; fest, that of which I never even asked to be a part of to begin with&#8221; feels kinda shitty. I guess the dude can take the money, but he&#8217;s still gonna complain.<\/p>\n<p>Also, let&#8217;s not pretend that this is the thing that got <strong>Emmure<\/strong> in hot water. C&#8217;mon, <strong>Frankie<\/strong>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zox-post-body left zoxrel zox100\"><strong>Want More Metal? 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The clip featured frontman Frankie Palmeri animated in a style reminiscent of The Simpsons, prompting backlash from fans who criticized the band for using AI instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,55],"class_list":["post-1793467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-metalinjection-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1793467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1793467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1793467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1793467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}