When you use an artificially generated image to promote your stuff, I can’t help but think you’re artificially generating everything else.
If you can’t be authentic with your promotional materials, I can’t trust that your actually authentic.
Those tools are hollow. *YOU* come across as hollow for using them. It doesn’t matter what your justifications are, your budgets, or how desperate you are. Because we all know how the sausage is made at this point, and we all know it’s a *choice* to use it or not. No one is twisting your arm.
No one is forcing you to boost posts that use it. No one is threatening your re-posting auto-bot with ultimatums. Only people with their heads under rocks at this point think your crazy amalgamation with too much contrast and big eyes is actually worth the cost of its “cute factor”.
Just stop. It’s not that hard.