But isn’t the deeper question whether it’s the content itself that corrupts a space, or the way we collectively choose to give it value? A platform doesn’t decay because faces or bodies appear, it decays when attention shifts from creation to consumption, from substance to spectacle. In that sense, the real battleground isn’t against images or “AI slop,” it’s against the human tendency to reward the shallow over the meaningful. What’s fascinating is that every community seems to face this same test eventually what it decides to glorify ends up shaping what it becomes.