TL:DR – You can paste emoji into a MidJourney prompt and it will generate some interesting art. Some of it seems wholly unrelated to the emoji.
Everyone surely knows by now that you can create some intriguing images by sending an appropriate prompt to a bot, you can even send an image to some of them, such as MidJourney, and have it spit back something that it generates based on that input. Recently, I saw an interesting idea from Linus Ekenstam who was prompting MidJourney with emoji. My next favourite waste of time was obvious…
Prompt: Male singer emoji, the one that looks like Aladdin Sane Bowie
Prompt: Male and female singers and guitar emoji
Prompt: Three guitar emoji
Prompt: Singer, guitar, and drum emoji
Prompt: Musical keyboard
Prompt: Musical score, flat, sharp, natural emoji
UPDATE: I prompted MidJourney with the spider web emoji and it gave me two images that were reminiscent of Spider Man, another of a girl peering through a window at a fire, and this one, which looks like an out-take from Rush album cover designs of the Power Windows era…I added the text, just for fun.
I’ve gathered together more of my MidJourney output on my Pinterest page.
Update: Because of the album-like nature of the last image above, I prompted MJ with a few messages of this sort: “Hipgnosis style, surreal album cover, photorealistic, high-definition, beautiful, incredibly detailed” and it came back with some interesting generative art. The following one used that prompt but with the “woman” emoji at the front-end for good measure.
Repeated the prompt but with the “man” emoji:
I prompted MJ with the emoji representing Diwali/Diya Lamp, if you have coulrophobia, look away now. The other three generative images for that prompt were equally unrelated to Diwali, but this one was the weirdest.
