AI-Backlash Coalitions

Aesthetic markers

• hand-drawn or visibly imperfect craft signaling human labor
• artist-credit metadata and 'made by humans' watermarks
• analog textures, grain, and physical-process artifacts foregrounded
• screenshot callout threads exposing AI-generated brand assets
• protest imagery borrowing union-movement visual vernacular

Value systems

• creative labor has intrinsic economic and moral worth that AI displaces
• consent and compensation must precede any training-data use
• authenticity is measured by verifiable human origin, not output quality
• corporate AI adoption is extractive by default until proven otherwise
• platform neutrality collapses when platforms actively devalue human creators

Conversion behaviours

• boycott decisions triggered by specific disclosed AI deployments, not AI sentiment broadly
• peer-amplified callout threads serve as primary discovery and verdict mechanism
• royalty and revenue data converts skeptics into activists
• brand trust erodes incrementally via cumulative incidents, then collapses on a single visible act
• members actively audit extensions, features, and partnerships for undisclosed AI use
• legal filings and copyright rulings cited as social proof to recruit non-activist followers

Demographic crossovers

• working creative-class: illustrators, musicians, writers with platform income at stake
• open-source and digital-privacy advocates already suspicious of platform capture
• film and prestige-TV fandoms loyal to auteur-driven studios
• labor-rights and gig-economy organizing communities
• older millennial and Gen X professionals who built careers on pre-AI creative norms