Prompt: Headline: MAD MAGAZINE: (A direct, satirical play on the classic "This is your brain on drugs" PSA.)
MAD Magazine Parody Cover Concept
Cover Line:
"YOUR BRAIN ON SCREENS"
Visual:
The cover is bright, chaotic, and meticulously detailed in the classic MAD style. It features their mascot, Alfred E. Neuman, but with a major twist.
Alfred E. Neuman 2.0: Alfred is depicted as a half-human, half-robot hybrid. The left side of his face is his classic, freckled, grinning self. The right side of his face is a sleek, glowing screen, with a robotic eye and a pixelated, glitching version of his famous grin.
The "Screened" Reality: He's holding up a cracked smartphone in one hand, but the "crack" is actually a fissure in reality, leaking classic MAD-style cartoon chaos (spilling ink, tiny "What, me worry?" symbols, etc.).
Background: He's surrounded by a whirlwind of pop-culture icons, all zombified and staring at their own phones:
A superhero scrolling mindlessly through a "super-villain's" social media.
A famous cartoon mouse with giant, dilated eyes from screen time.
A political figure giving a speech to an audience of empty chairs, all holding up phones instead of faces.
Color Palette: Vivid and explosive. Electric yellows, hot pinks, and cyan blues, contrasting with the metallic silver of Alfred's robotic half. The classic MAD logo in its trademark red and white.
Taglines & Text (scattered around the cover in the classic MAD font):
"SATIRE SO DEEP, EVEN THE ALGORITHMS CAN'T KILL IT!"
"INSIDE: AI WRITES THIS ENTIRE ISSUE! (JUST KIDDING. OR ARE WE?)"
"POLITICIONS: A SPECIAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE WHERE EVERY ANSWER IS A LIE!"
"ScREAMING SERVICES: WE PARODY ALL 700 OF THEM!"
At the very bottom, in small print: "NOW AVAILABLE IN COMIC BOOK STORES BECAUSE NEWSSTANDS ARE A THING WE PARODY IN THIS ISSUE."
The "What, Me Worry?" Twist:
The classic phrase is updated. A small speech bubble from Robotic Alfred reads:
"WHAT, ME WORRY? MY PRIVACY POLICY WAS 40,000 WORDS LONG!"
Dream Level: is increased each time when you "Go Deeper" into the dream. Each new level is harder to achieve and
takes more iterations than the one before.
Rare Deep Dream: is any dream which went deeper than level 6.
Deep Dream
You cannot go deeper into someone else's dream. You must create your own.
Deep Dream
Currently going deeper is available only for Deep Dreams.
