makerzz Trends · Monday, 7 September 2026
Creators Are Posting "Stay Human" Rants, GTA VI Speculation Reels, and Ancient Recipe Videos
The doomscrolling backlash is content now, gaming hype is a format factory, and 3,700-year-old stew is outperforming food trends.
Three currents running through feeds this week: a wave of humanist anti-AI content sparked by real shutdowns, gaming speculation reels riding a search spike that hit 10K on Google Trends, and history-nerd food content pulling from a 3,700-year-old recipe. Plus the agent-skills repo explosion on GitHub is giving solo creators new automation angles. Here is what is working and what to post today.
What creators are doing
TikTok498 HN points"Stay Human" monologue reels — creators reading or riffing on the A/I shutdown announcement ("we are shutting down — stay human") as a cold-open hook, then pivoting to their own take on what AI cannot replace in their craft. The shutdown post hit 498 points and 355 comments on Hacker News, giving it cross-platform search lift.
Why it works: The phrase "stay human" is short, emotional, and screen-text friendly. It triggers the algorithm's engagement signals because commenters split hard for/against. The format is just a person talking to camera with one text overlay — zero production cost.
Copy this
Film a 45-second talking-head reel. Open with the text overlay "A company just shut down and said: stay human." Then share the one thing in your niche AI will never do. End with a question to drive comments.
Make this today
A "3,700-Year-Old Recipe" Carousel + Reel
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Grab the source material5 min
Go to the Yale Babylonian Collection cooking page. Screenshot the cuneiform tablet and the translated ingredient list (lamb, beets, onion, garlic, beer, coriander). Save both images to your camera roll.
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Shop and prep15 min
You likely have most ingredients already. The stew is simple: diced lamb shoulder, raw beets, onion, garlic, a dark beer, fresh coriander, salt. Dice everything before you start filming.
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Film the cook in 6 clips20 min
Clip 1: tablet screenshot on screen with your hand pointing. Clip 2: ingredients laid out. Clip 3: browning lamb. Clip 4: adding beets and beer. Clip 5: simmering. Clip 6: plated dish. Shoot vertical, natural light, phone on a jar or tripod.
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Build the carousel in Canva or makerzz10 min
Slide 1: tablet image plus text "This recipe is 3,700 years old." Slides 2-6: one cooking photo per slide with a one-line caption. Slide 7: finished dish with "Would you eat a Babylonian stew?" Use a warm, muted palette.
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Cut the reel8 min
Use CapCut or your phone editor. String the 6 clips together, add a trending ambient sound or use original audio with your voiceover narrating the recipe. Total runtime: 45-60 seconds. Add captions.
Nitter and XCancel are back — what that changes for creators on X
Nitter and XCancel resumed service after receiving legal advice that their operation can continue. This means your public X posts are once again viewable through alternative front-ends without logging in. For creators, this is a reminder that anything you post publicly on X travels further than the app itself — good for reach, worth knowing for content you want to keep gated.
- The commit restoring service has 412 points and 230 comments on Hacker News, so developer and privacy communities are paying close attention.
- If you embed tweets on blogs or newsletters, Nitter URLs are working again as a fallback when X embeds break.
- Our read: this likely increases the effective audience of your X posts among tech-savvy readers who refuse to log in.
Agent-skills repos are exploding on GitHub — what creators can use now
The top GitHub trending repos this week are almost all "skills" packages for AI coding agents: mattpocock/skills (2,207 stars), coreyhaines31/marketingskills (329 stars), and affaan-m/ECC (1,485 stars). These are drop-in instruction sets that make Claude Code, Codex, or similar agents better at specific tasks like CRO copywriting, SEO, and diagram generation.
- coreyhaines31/marketingskills includes CRO, copywriting, and SEO skills you can plug into Claude Code to draft landing pages or ad copy — useful for solo creators running their own funnels.
- cathrynlavery/diagram-design (620 stars) outputs 38 editorial diagram types as clean HTML and SVG — no Mermaid, no shadows. Good for carousel visuals or LinkedIn infographics.
- blader/humanizer (748 stars) is an agent skill that removes AI-sounding patterns from text. If you use AI drafts for captions or scripts, running them through this before posting is a practical step.
GPT-6 Astra trending in India, OpenAI publishes research acceleration
"chatgpt gpt astra" hit a Google Trends score of 2,000 in India today around the GPT-6 Astra announcement. Separately, OpenAI published a research-acceleration post (100 HN points). For creators, the practical takeaway is that AI-tool comparison content and "what is new in GPT" explainers are in high demand right now, especially for audiences in India.
- If you make AI-tool content, a "GPT-6 Astra: what is actually new" short or carousel will ride the search wave today.
- The OpenAI "Alien Mind" essay (300 HN points) is a second hook for creators who want to go deeper on AI philosophy content.
Scripts to post today
TikTokStay Human (45-sec talking head)
“An AI company just shut itself down. Their last words were: stay human.”
An AI company just shut itself down. Their last words were: stay human. And honestly? That hit different. Because here is what AI cannot do in my world. It cannot sit across from a client and feel the moment they stop trusting the process. It cannot panic-text a friend at 2 AM about a creative block and then laugh about it the next morning. It cannot taste a dish and know it needs more acid. Whatever your craft is, there is a version of that — the thing that only works because you are a person who has lived a life. So what is yours? Drop it in the comments. I want to know what stays human in your work.
Why it works: Opens with news-as-hook but immediately pivots to personal. The question at the end drives comments, which signals engagement to the algorithm. Under 60 seconds keeps completion rate high.
YouTubeGTA 6 on PC Before Rockstar? (60-sec Short)
“Someone just ran GTA 5 on a PS5 emulator — and it actually works.”
Profiles trending right now
GitHubSteal this: Package your expertise as a downloadable instruction set or template, not just a post. The repo format itself is the content.
GitHubSteal this: If you teach marketing, package your frameworks as agent-readable skill files. It is a new distribution channel that reaches developers who also run businesses.
GitHubSteal this: Take a strong aesthetic position in your tools and templates. "No shadows. No Mermaid slop." is a hook that sells a repo the way a brand voice sells a product.
What to do today
- Film a 45-second "stay human" reel: open with the A/I shutdown quote, share the one thing AI cannot replace in your work, ask viewers to comment theirs. Post to TikTok and Instagram Reels.
- Make a 7-slide carousel about the 3,700-year-old Babylonian stew recipe from the Yale collection. Use the playbook above. Post to Instagram with a save CTA.
- Write a LinkedIn post using the "intellectual fly is open" framework: share a time you were confidently wrong, close with a question. Aim for under 200 words.
- If you make gaming or tech content, post a YouTube Short about the PS5 emulator running GTA 5 and what it means for GTA 6 on PC. Ride the 10K Google Trends spike today.
- Install the humanizer agent skill from GitHub (blader/humanizer, 748 stars) and run your next three AI-drafted captions through it before posting. Compare engagement to your last three AI-drafted posts.
Sources (13)
- A/I shuts down – Stay human — Hacker News
- Your intellectual fly is open (2025) — Hacker News
- Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice — Hacker News
- Doomscrolling Ourselves to Death — Hacker News
- Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE) — Hacker News
- GTA VI trending on Google Trends US — Google Trends US
- GPT-6 Astra trending in India — Google Trends IN
- An Alien Mind — OpenAI — Hacker News
- mattpocock/skills (2207 stars) — GitHub trending
- coreyhaines31/marketingskills (329 stars) — GitHub trending
