You know the AI hype has jumped the shark when even a game franchise's most, uh, dedicated fanbase is disgusted by it. Stellar Blade got some attention for its character designs, attracting a certain demographic of fans. But then they announced "Bloodrain" - apparently an AI-enhanced version - and even those folks were like "nah, we're good with the original, thanks." It's basically the Squidward meme perfectly capturing that moment when a product "upgrade" makes you recoil in horror. Companies keep cramming AI into everything thinking it'll print money, but sometimes your audience just wants the thing they already liked without your "innovative improvements." Not everything needs machine learning, Karen from product management. The real lesson here? If you manage to make a feature so unwanted that people who were already enthusiastically on board suddenly become your harshest critics, you've achieved a special kind of product failure. That's like negative value-add.