Fake news, propaganda and the illusion of “Real” online 2026 is not the year when fake news suddenly appears, it is the year when it becomes harder to tell the difference between what is real, what is edited and what is deliberately engineered to manipulate you. For a long time, misinformation was relatively easy to recognize, it came with obvious signals like bad grammar, low quality images, exaggerated headlines or stories that sounded absurd on first read. You did not nee

By the end of 2025, artificial intelligence was no longer something experimental or optional, yet much of the public conversation still treated it as if it were a personal preference rather than a structural reality. Many of the loud opinions about AI this year were built on misunderstandings, not because people are malicious, but because they are reacting to a system they only see at the surface level. "If you stop using AI, you are reducing its environmental impact." This m

Last week I had a meeting with a client. AI came up. He said no serious brand will ever use AI to create ads. That brands using AI are cutting corners, that it kills creativity. I said brands are already using AI for social media posts, ads, visuals and variations. I said this will only increase next year, especially on social platforms. The conversation ended there, so did the collaboration. What he said didn’t surprise me. The gap between what people think is happening and

Maybe you’ve seen NanoBanana Pro floating around the internet. Maybe you haven’t, and everyone using it is just quietly pretending they suddenly became designers, editors, photographers, and brand strategists overnight. NanoBanana Pro is not just a “make me pretty” tool. It’s a full AI engine that can transform photos, create consistent characters, rebuild scenes, change environments, enhance quality. At its core, NanoBanana Pro takes whatever you give it a selfie, a product

Short answer: maybe. Long answer: It depends on whether you plan to adapt or plan to sit there hoping the world magically slows down for you. I understand that you might be frustrated. I've seen the posts on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, everywhere you look, people are mad and complaining about AI more and more. Artists posting about how AI stole their style, writers saying AI took their clients, designers watching their jobs get posted at half the salary with "AI sk

But first, welcome to my blog! So hello. I’m Diana. Graphic designer, video editor, world-traveler, and recently… full-time curious human trying to understand where this whole AI wave is taking us. I’ve spent the last years mixing design, photography, video, travel, burnout, chaos, and more AI tools than I can count. I used AI when people still thought it was “cheating.” I argued with designers who hate it. I proved to clients that AI is actually saving them money. And I le