Emmure‘s recent announcement video for their inclusion on the Orlando, FL stop of this year’s ‘Vans Warped Tour‘ drew heavy criticism from countless individuals on social media. While Palmeri himself has been a divisive figure in the metalcore scene for a variety of reasons, this ire was instead directed at the video’s use of AI. That clip found the band’s frontman Frankie Palmeri animated in a style befitting of ‘The Simpsons‘ announcing Emmure‘s involvement in the fest this year. The comment section for that post (see below) is littered with condemnations for employing AI.
At least one of those responses calling him out over the matter appears to have elicited a pointed reply directly from Frankie himself. The below screencap of that reported exchange has been circulating online recently. One social media user commented, “All the money y’all make & you can’t hire an artist to make this, instead you use ai?” Palmeri appears to have responded directly as follows:
“I have an artist I work with regularly when I aim to make content like this. Due to time restrictions, they weren’t able to produce the content without cutting corners. To be completely honest, I didn’t even want to make anything for this announcement. But, with respect to @vanswarpedtour and @kevinlyman I went ahead and made an announcement video clip. That’s all this is.
You and countless other people have made such an incredibly, unnecessarily harsh critique about something so innocuous I’m actually shocked. Sorry I didn’t want to pretend to smile at a camera and talk about a “punk rock” fest, that of which I never even asked to be a part of to begin with.After 9 albums, a dozen music videos, countless live shows, the fucking audacity to lambast me over 15 seconds of “artificial” art is astonishing.
Thanks.”
The user behind the account that directed the aforementioned criticism towards Emmure has since claimed that the band blocked them following the comment.
