Landed on what I think is basically a perfect AI-generated image via Dalle3:

There are a few other good ones in the full set here (archived).

I was also pretty impressed by its out of box ability to create the core of a meme:

It couldn’t get the text clear and legible though, so I found that just taking it into photoshop, deleting that and a few other distracting parts, and then doing a generative fill in Photoshop worked wonders. That allowed me to drop in proper text here too.

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