{"id":503952,"date":"2026-02-25T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/503952\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T22:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:00:08","slug":"emmure-slammed-for-ai-simpsons-style-announcement-frankie-palmeri-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/503952\/","title":{"rendered":"EMMURE Slammed For AI &#8220;Simpsons-Style&#8221; Announcement, FRANKIE PALMERI Responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/metalinjection.net\/tag\/emmure\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emmure<\/a> found themselves in hot water online after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DU_MGxfCYBu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">releasing an announcement video<\/a> for their appearance at the Orlando, FL stop of this year&#8217;s Vans Warped Tour. The clip featured frontman Frankie Palmeri animated in a style reminiscent of The Simpsons, prompting backlash from fans who criticized the band for using AI instead of commissioning a human artist.<\/p>\n<p>One user called out the band on social media: &#8220;All the money y&#8217;all make &amp; you can&#8217;t hire an artist to make this, instead you use ai?&#8221; Palmeri fired back, explaining the reasoning behind the decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have an artist I work with regularly when I aim to make content like this,&#8221; Palmeri wrote. &#8220;Due to time restrictions, they weren&#8217;t able to produce the content without cutting corners. To be completely honest, I didn&#8217;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&#8217;s all this is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;You and countless other people have made such an incredibly, unnecessarily harsh critique about something so innocuous I&#8217;m actually shocked. Sorry I didn&#8217;t want to pretend to smile at a camera and talk about a &#8216;punk rock&#8217; 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 &#8216;artificial&#8217; art is astonishing. Thanks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And sure, time constraints are time constraints. But the guy couldn&#8217;t have just done a quick voicevoer? Also, his comment about having to &#8220;talk about a &#8216;punk rock&#8217; fest, that of which I never even asked to be a part of to begin with&#8221; feels kinda shitty. I guess the dude can take the money, but he&#8217;s still gonna complain.<\/p>\n<p>Also, let&#8217;s not pretend that this is the thing that got Emmure in hot water. C&#8217;mon, Frankie.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tWant More Metal? Subscribe To Our Daily Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Enter your information below to get a daily update with all of our headlines and receive The Orchard Metal newsletter.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emmure found themselves in hot water online after releasing an announcement video for their appearance at the Orlando,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,253293,134,236088,136],"class_list":["post-503952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-emmure","tag-entertainment","tag-featured2","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}