If you’ve been scrolling through social media recently, you’ve probably seen a lot of… dolls. There are dolls all over X and on Facebook feeds. Instagram? Dolls. TikTok?
You guessed it: dolls, as well as doll-making techniques. There are even dolls on LinkedIn, undoubtedly the most serious and least entertaining member of the club. You can refer to it as the Barbie AI treatment or the Barbie box trend. If Barbie isn’t your thing, you can try AI action figures, action figure starter packs, or the ChatGPT action figure fad. However, regardless of the hashtag, dolls appear to be everywhere.
And, while they share some similarities (boxes and packaging resembling Mattel’s Barbie, personality-driven accessories, a plastic-looking smile), they’re all as unique as the people who post them, with the exception of one key common feature: they’re not real.
In the emerging trend, users are using generative AI tools like ChatGPT to envision themselves as dolls or action figures, complete with accessories. It has proven quite popular, and not just among influencers.