“Nothing Went Foom!”: an accelerationist Claude Opus 5.5 music video answers P(doom)
Partly confirmed
The takeaway
On 2026-09-27 the account Bright Mirror (@_brightmirror) posted a 5-minute music video “made with Claude Opus 5.5, from the perspective of Claude” that mocks decades of failed “foom” predictions and calls to pause AI (“Don’t let them win”).
Status
- Claim
Partly confirmed
- Our reporting
- Medium confidence
- Importance
- 2 of 5
- Last verified
- 29 September 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 Astra150 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.589 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen180 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7119 days after its cutoff
None of these four assistants can know about it. The closest, Claude Opus 5.5, stops 89 days before it.
Key facts
- X post 2026-09-27 05:19 UTC: ~670k views, 4.2k likes, 614 reposts, 370 replies (fxtwitter, 2026-09-29); video 5:00
- YouTube upload EXoP18t1tFI, 2026-09-26 (Pacific time)
- Production details (who wrote lyrics/music, tools) not disclosed
- Reactions (low confidence, from X’s AI trending summary, posts not read): a Nick Cammarata reaction and worries about ‘super-propaganda’
What happened
The video flips the P(doom) song’s premise: Claude sings that nothing went “foom”. Andreas Kirsch joked in a quote post that “Beff Jezos was among the first to be made redundant by automation”. Beff Jezos is the pseudonym of the e/acc figurehead Guillaume Verdon.
Why it matters
Both sides of the AI-risk debate now use Claude-made media to make their case. Safety advocates did the same with “Let’s Lower the P(doom)!” and Patryk Perduta’s source-annotated version. It shows how cheap persuasive, polished media has become.
Sources
4 sources from 2 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
4 sources: 4 reactions
Reactions
- Bright Mirror on Xx.com, discussion
- Nothing Went Foom! (YouTube)youtube.com, video
- X trending page (not readable without login/API)x.com, discussion
- Andreas Kirsch reaction (X)x.com, discussion
Changes
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