Overview
- Social platforms are filling with AI images and short videos that depict pets undertaking the Mictlán journey for Día de Muertos.
- Google’s Gemini generates these scenes from text prompts and optional pet photos, producing stills or animations within moments.
- Many participants use the results as memorials to dogs and cats that have died, giving the trend an overtly sentimental purpose.
- Mexican media, including Excélsior and RÉCORD, have published step-by-step guides, with Excélsior offering a detailed example prompt.
- Typical compositions feature cempasúchil, candles and calaveras, and posts are spreading under #CruzandoElMictlán and #DíaDeMuertosIA on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook.