The neural series with cheating fruits has captured social networks. What is known about the new trend

A popular trend has become on TikTok, in which users generate short vertical cartoons using Artificial Intelligence, where anthropomorphic fruits and vegetables experience exciting love dramas. Piquant videos are created by users all over the world, overlaying the generated voiceover in different languages. For more information, see the Izvestia article.

What is the trend of "Cheating fruits" and how did it appear?

A new genre of content generated by neural networks is gaining popularity in social networks. Millions of views collect short stories in which strawberries, eggplants, raspberries and broccoli live a full dramatic life. On TikTok, videos with hashtags about unfaithful fruit spouses are rapidly gaining a fan base, and the platform's algorithms maintain interest, allowing neural networks to churn out new episodes almost indefinitely.

It is not uncommon to find a story where a strawberry spouse cheats on her husband with an eggplant boss. As a result, an eggplant baby is born, which causes the anger of the deceived husband. In another scenario, a cucumber child suddenly appears in the Malin family. The raspberry husband expels his wife who cheated on him outside the door, but decides to adopt and raise a little cucumber. Other characters include watermelons, apples, peppers, cherries, broccoli, oranges, and many others.

Users don't bring the generated series to perfection: the characters' clothes change from frame to frame, and the words are mispronounced. Carelessness, on the contrary, creates even greater absurdity, which attracts viewers to their phone screens.

The fruits are deliberately generated in a sexualized way: humanized carrots are endowed with curvy shapes, short skirts and a slightly open neckline, while alfacha strawberries are endowed with toned biceps. The sex itself does not appear on the screen, but the platform skips fruit foreplay into the tape, leaving the viewer the opportunity to finish what is happening in his imagination.

Some users draw parallels with the past trend "Italian Animals", in which the neural network generated anthropomorphic Cappuccino Ballerina, shark Tralalelo Tralala and Spyro Golubiro. Unlike "Italian Animals," the characters in "Unfaithful Fruits" are much more outspoken and flirt with the audience on 18+ topics.

User reaction

In the comments below the videos, viewers sneer at how much they "stuck" to these neural series. A user with the nickname "guzal" is surprised: "I don't understand why I'm watching this to the end." Another commentator, "benni.07", notes: "We need to learn how to scroll through this...". And one of the users under the nickname "bunkermafia__05" even declares: "Leave the food, vegetables and fruits alone."

Viewers seriously discuss the characters of the characters, name their favorites and advise the products on how to proceed. Users compare mini-series with reality shows: for example, the project "Fruit House" was released with an explicit allusion to "House 2". The first episode begins with the orange presenter announcing: "Welcome to the Fruit House TV project, where eight lonely fruits will build their love, plot intrigues and arrange the utter tin in the perimeter."

The trend has inspired people to get active in an offline environment: fans in cardboard masks parody AI characters and act out scenes with real bananas and strawberries, drawing their faces with markers. His fans explain the virality of the genre simply: the twists and turns of love help to distract from the gloomy news and get positive emotions.

However, some of the audience expresses concern. Some users are confused that explicit scenes can be seen by children. Such concerns are voiced against the background of the fact that, despite the absence of a direct image of intimacy, the context of most videos remains clearly adult.

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What do psychologists say about the new trend?

Andrey Drachev, a clinical psychologist at W Clinic, believes that the series about fruit infidelity plays on the most burning topics for a person, helping to safely get a psychological release.

"Treason has existed for as long as human society has existed. Jealousy, betrayal, how the story ends — our brain likes to track such conflicts because they are associated with an important need for affection and the threat of deprivation of this attachment," the psychologist told Izvestia.

Fruits, due to their absurdity and humor, create a protective buffer, allowing you to get an emotional charge of drama without unnecessary discomfort and reducing anxiety.

"There is no need to worry about a living person. The absurd removes barriers and makes the content psychologically safe for us," the expert explains.

According to Drachev, dopamine and the incompleteness loop play an important role in the desire to watch such videos, or in other words, the Zeigarnik effect, which consists in the fact that a person remembers interrupted actions better than completed ones. In the trend, all videos are built according to the classical scheme: the beginning, the conflict, the denouement, but the plots end at the moment with the "strawberry", allowing the viewer to complement the ending with their fantasies.

"Is it possible to get hooked? It's definitely possible. It's a behavioral habit that forms very quickly. The brain begins to expect a ratio of "minimum effort — quick reward" and adjusts to this scenario. The series has very familiar plots for people: betrayal, conflicts, everyday life, relationships. This also causes dopamine," the expert states.

The psychologist also notes that the popularity is also affected by the short format of the videos, which requires no effort.

"In the current context, it is more difficult for us to read long texts, watch long movies, listen to podcasts at one speed, without parallel scrolling. And not because the person has become worse at thinking, no. It's just that the threshold from which the brain is ready to engage in complex content has shifted. For objective reasons, in my opinion, in the modern world," the psychologist reflects.

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Is the new trend dangerous

At the same time, as Drachev notes, there is no danger in the videos of this format themselves. They can become a problem if this is the only way to deal with anxiety.

"In psychology, it can also be called avoidant coping. That is, a person gets away from discomfort instead of working with it. For example, he goes into watching videos, including about cheating, about relationships, about strawberries and eggplants. Anxiety temporarily decreases, so there is a possibility that the ability to tolerate it will not develop, and the threshold of "I want to run away from it all" is gradually falling," the psychologist notes.

The series fulfills a recreational mission: it allows you to distract yourself after a hard day's work, turn off your brain.

"What should we do and should we do anything about it? Well, first of all, we love drama, we need to relax, we need to disconnect from some everyday activities, and such stories, short plots with strawberries, eggplants give us such a relaxing effect. I don't see anything wrong with that for sure," says the expert.

At the same time, Drachev notes the importance of balance. Such videos become a problem when they disrupt life and functioning, affecting interpersonal relationships, social life, work in a negative way, sleep or appetite.

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