A lot of the combinations with 🦋 + rare emoji end up looking like that, just putting the rare emoji as the head and tip of wand and coloring the “humanoid with wings” body in the rare emoji’s color.

I’m not saying it’s definitely not GenAI, but it’s also something that can easily be solved with an explicit algorithm.

Most emoji work that way, they have a few templates and then paste the other emoji into predetermined places.

One field it impacts is radio astronomy. We can already see Musk’s satellites mess with it (unintentionally) and it’s probably only going to get worse from here.