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id: "2026-09-27-nothing-went-foom-accelerationist-answer"
url: "https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-27-nothing-went-foom-accelerationist-answer/"
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date: "2026-09-27"
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confidence: medium
status: [Partly confirmed]
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As of: 2026-11-13 13:49 CET.
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# "Nothing Went Foom!": an accelerationist Claude Opus 5.5 music video answers P(doom)

Full title: "Nothing Went Foom!": an accelerationist Claude Opus 5.5 music video answers the P(doom) craze

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"). It drew ~670k views and an X trending topic. It turned the Claude Pop genre into a two-sided argument between doomers and accelerationists.

## 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.

## Your AI and this story

- GPT-6 Astra (training cutoff April 2026): 150 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5 (training cutoff June 2026): 89 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen (training cutoff March 2026): 180 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7 (training cutoff May 2026): 119 days after its cutoff

## Sources

1. [Bright Mirror on X](https://x.com/_brightmirror/status/2104078568137675107) (x.com, discussion)
2. [Nothing Went Foom! (YouTube)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXoP18t1tFI) (youtube.com, video)
3. [X trending page (not readable without login/API)](https://x.com/i/trending/2104161956634517980) (x.com, discussion)
4. [Andreas Kirsch reaction (X)](https://x.com/BlackHC/status/2104479506253697265) (x.com, discussion)

## Changes

- 2026-09-29 (filed): Created

## Related

- 2026-09-22: ["Claude Pop": music videos made by Claude Opus 5.5 for the AI-doom song "I'm Upping My P(doom)" become a genre](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-22-claude-pop-genre/index.md)
- People: [Nick Cammarata](https://postcutoff.com/person/nick-cammarata/)
- Archived: 2 posts and 1 video, listed in https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-27-nothing-went-foom-accelerationist-answer/index.json