That Coldplay 'Kiss Cam' Couple Just Became a Vibe-Coded Videogame - and Then an NFT (forbes.com) 35
"I vibe coded a little game called Coldplay Canoodlers," reads the X.com post by gaming enthusiast/songwriter Jonathan Mann. "You're the camera operator and you have to find the CEO and HR lady canoodling. 10 points every time you find them."
Mann's post includes a 30-second clip from the game, which is playable here.
Forbes notes that the TikTok video of the couple's reaction has drawn more than 100 million views — and that the married-to-someone-else CEO has now tendered his resignation from his dataops company Astronomer (which was accepted). The company is now searching for a new chief executive, according to a statement posted on LinkedIn. ("Comments have been turned off on this post...")
"Our leaders are expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability, and recently, that standard was not met."
But songwriter Mann saw a chance to have some fun, writes Forbes: Mann used ChatGPT to make the "Coldplay Canoodlers" game, inputting such prompts as: "Can you generate an 8-bit pixel image of a stadium concert viewed from the stage" and "there should be a large jumbotron somewhere up in the stadium seats." He also entered rough drawings of the visual style he envisioned... The response to the game, Mann said in an interview, has been unexpected. "I have gone viral many times with my songs," he said. It's "very strange to have it happen with a game I made in four hours."
Songwriter Mann has been sharing an original song online every day for over 17 years. Last summer Slashdot also covered Mann's attempts to sell NFTs of his songs, and his concerns about SEC regulations. (This led him to file a real-world legal challenge — and to write a song titled "I'm Suing the SEC".) So with all the attention this weekend to his instant game, there was nothing to do but... write a new song about it.
And minutes ago on X.com, Mann also posted a new update about his game.
"I turned it into an NFT."
"Took some time," Mann explained later. "But I vibe coded my own ERC-721 contract and minted the game as a playable NFT. (Plays great on OpenSea)."
Mann's post includes a 30-second clip from the game, which is playable here.
Forbes notes that the TikTok video of the couple's reaction has drawn more than 100 million views — and that the married-to-someone-else CEO has now tendered his resignation from his dataops company Astronomer (which was accepted). The company is now searching for a new chief executive, according to a statement posted on LinkedIn. ("Comments have been turned off on this post...")
"Our leaders are expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability, and recently, that standard was not met."
But songwriter Mann saw a chance to have some fun, writes Forbes: Mann used ChatGPT to make the "Coldplay Canoodlers" game, inputting such prompts as: "Can you generate an 8-bit pixel image of a stadium concert viewed from the stage" and "there should be a large jumbotron somewhere up in the stadium seats." He also entered rough drawings of the visual style he envisioned... The response to the game, Mann said in an interview, has been unexpected. "I have gone viral many times with my songs," he said. It's "very strange to have it happen with a game I made in four hours."
Songwriter Mann has been sharing an original song online every day for over 17 years. Last summer Slashdot also covered Mann's attempts to sell NFTs of his songs, and his concerns about SEC regulations. (This led him to file a real-world legal challenge — and to write a song titled "I'm Suing the SEC".) So with all the attention this weekend to his instant game, there was nothing to do but... write a new song about it.
And minutes ago on X.com, Mann also posted a new update about his game.
"I turned it into an NFT."
"Took some time," Mann explained later. "But I vibe coded my own ERC-721 contract and minted the game as a playable NFT. (Plays great on OpenSea)."
Jesus fuck everything wrong with the world here (Score:5, Insightful)
And fucking nfts? Are we going to bring back that tax dodge? Because that's what those were going to be until the IRS said no, you couldn't use the art loophole anymore and you certainly couldn't use it on nfts.
I cannot go a single day without this God forsaken world reminding me that the entirety of human civilization is collapsing. At least not without turning off the internet and any other media device.
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Re: More things wrong with the world. (Score:1)
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In no fault states, divorce is generally unfair to the person that didn't lie, cheat, and steal.
Really?
If your spouse fucks someone else, they shouldn't have a right to half of the marital assets?
You need counseling.
Re: More things wrong with the world. (Score:2)
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divides the assets basically by algorithm regardless of who cheated.
Good. What does division of the assets have to do with where your dick wandered?
As I said, you need counseling.
Marriage seems to have become a legacy concept
The irony.
I wonder why? Is it perhaps because it's used as a weapon by vindictive spouses who have had their pride wounded?
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They should get NOTHING!!
Fuck them.
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The commenter clearly seemed to think the world was going to be supremely unfair to the CEO (turns out 'exec' is ambiguous, as the man, his wife, the mistress, and the mistress' husband are all executives one place or another). You said the exec deserves to lose because of his actions, which seems to be inconsistent. The commenter's stance is based on his blatant assumption that the wife was not earning money and the mistress was just some gold digger, and that even if the wife wasn't earning money, that
Re:More things wrong with the world. (Score:5, Informative)
YEah, none of this will happen. Let's assume they don't have a prenup (in which case the settlement of assets is dictated by that). The wife would get 50% of what was generated during their marriage at best. That may include the house, but its value would be subtracted from what she got in cash. Alimony... depends on a lot of circumstances, but it's more rare and generally a limited time. Plus we have no idea what the wife's income is, she may make as much or more.
Will he get a job again? Of course he will. Probably not as a CEO in the near term, but he'll absolutely get jobs where he isn't a visible presence for the company. And in a few years the CEO jobs will open again, because nobody is going to give a fuck a year from now.
As for going to jail- no. If the alimony (which is unlikely to exist) does exist and it is set high, he goes back to court to get it lowered. Because alimony is based on your income (with a few exceptions for example purposefully staying unemployed). Given that he was just publicly fired, his current income potential is very low, so any alimony would be matchingly low. There are formulas for these things.
So in other words, your just spouting misogynistic bullshit.
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given current divorce laws, she will wind up with the house and most of his money
That depends on jurisdiction. Community property states have more reasonable divorce laws.
The community property states are Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin.
If you don't live in one of these states, you can move there, live for six months, and then file for divorce, even if your spouse lives elsewhere.
Kissgate was in Boston, so Byron is screwed if his wife files first.
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Cheaters deserve to lose everything and any bad thing that happens to them.
Fuck cheaters.
But outside of that, no, divorce shouldn't be a virtual death sentence, unless one is an abuser, child molester, etc.
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You seem to have just been hit with the headlines and manufactured a scenario where he is a rich guy married to a stay at home wife, with a gold digging mistress.
My spouse was interested enough to bother to dig in and the reality is that the CEO, the wife, the mistress, and the mistress' husband are all four rich with income, so alimony is likely not even a factor. Similarly, the assets being split is unlikely to be lopsided.
From what I've seen in actual life, that all seems to be a rich person trope, and
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Grifters every last one of them man. That game is some serious dog shit too. I feel bad if they had to vibe code it is as it seems like something that could easily be cobbled together from any number of free sample games in a few hours at most.
I had forgotten that people were still trying to use NFTs to scam people out of money by making you pay for jpgs. That is so 2010s.
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And fucking nfts? Are we going to bring back that tax dodge? Because that's what those were going to be until the IRS said no, you couldn't use the art loophole anymore and you certainly couldn't use it on nfts.
Yeah, but there's a new sheriff in town... and he thinks NFTs are great (as long as he gets to wet his beak).
Re: Jesus fuck everything wrong with the world her (Score:2)
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This. Why can't people just laugh and have a bit of fun. There's a lot of grumpyoldfart shouting at clouds energy about this.
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That's even the best use case for vibe coding / AI slop. The nuke launch system shouldn't be coded this way, but a 5 minute game is precisely the point where it's a nice to have.
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Maybe it's less about the 'AI' and more about the 'slop'. Just like mobile games are flooded with slop, even before AI.
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LOL someone pissed in your cornflakes so hard this morning you stopped learning how to use language.
If you are saying "vibe coding" isn't coding by your definition then nothing but low level assembly is coding since you're handing off instructions to something else at every step of the way. "You suck, the C compiler did all the work, booo"
Secondly "cookie cutter" implies duplication and replication. By all accounts this looks like a rather unique creation in the gaming world, and doesn't appear to be copied
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agreed except having fun merely at the expense of another's disgrace is quite cringey, not really fun for me.
i have litle sympathy for these protagonists, but they were just going about their lives. it would be different to make fun of him, say, for being a ceo and doing nasty ceo stuff that harms the world, or if they would have been previously preaching marital faithfulness on twitter. this is just exploiting/monetizing weakness and/or unleashing the mob for the lulz. fuck this guy.
Re: Jesus fuck everything wrong with the world her (Score:2)
Plus, he didn't ask for a permission to use the caught couple's image. He may need to pay back for that one day.
I'm gonna make a Error: buzzword not found (Score:1)
Then I'm going to post it on Error: timely reference sadly dated.
And then I'm going to Disney World!
Poor couple. (Score:3, Interesting)
Yeah, they were cheating. That is not a crime. At least no in the US.
They got caught, and now a bunch of scum buckets are trying to make money/internet points out of their misery. Shmucks ignoring their rights, invading both their privacy and also not paying them anything for using their name/likeness.
I hate the idiots making games, jokes, and NFTs about this incident far more than the poor couple that were caught choking.
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well, tbh they weren't really being very diligent about their privacy, but i concur. also, stuff like this going viral is a bit depressing.
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Adultery is a crime in Virginia.
18.2-365. Adultery defined; penalty.
Any person, being married, who voluntarily shall have sexual intercourse with any person not his or her spouse shall be guilty of adultery, punishable as a Class 4 misdemeanor.
Not sure about other states.
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"As of 22 November 2024, adultery remains a crime in 16 states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico but prosecutions are rare.[86][87][88]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] I agree it SHOULDN'T, but right now it is.
Should have just waved at the camera (Score:4, Insightful)
They got outed because of their reaction.
The Coldplay guy would not have noticed or commented on them otherwise.
If they had had the presence of mind to just act normal instead of hiding, 2 seconds on the big screen and they would have been done.
Re:Should have just waved at the camera (Score:4, Insightful)
It's easy to say something, and quite different to do something. Hiding when you're doing something you yourself think is wrong is a natural instinct. Yeah acting naturally would be the obvious answer, but I'd wager precisely 0% of people here would have done that.
I mean if they had presence of mind you wouldn't be at a Coldplay concert in the first place.
Re: Should have just waved at the camera (Score:2)
The next CEO search (Score:2)
They are OK as long as the Chief People Officer spearheads the effort. I heard she's intimately familiar with the position.