About this research.

A computational social science project studying the production, engagement, and circulation of AI-generated football-anime media on Instagram. This story visualizes saved research outputs; the underlying models do not run in your browser.

How an appearance becomes evidence

A collection becomes a field of study.

The study collected 2,021 Instagram posts. The downloaded visual corpus contains 1,901 video files; the saved identity analysis covers 1,548 video records. These counts describe different scopes of evidence.

The paper.

The 2026 World Cup, Anime Edition: Production, Engagement, and Circulation of Generative Memetic Sports Content.

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