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Behind the Scenes: Working on Mesmerizing Storytelling

(Imagen 4)

This was never supposed to go on the Bredemarket blog, but here it is. Because when a product marketing consultant wants to improve his storytelling skills, he practices with…toilet paper.

A Facebook challenge

I’ve been working on improving my AI art generation skills, and even created a special Facebook group, Bredemarket Picture Clubhouse, as my practice area. One of my inspirations has been Danie Wylie, whom I first encountered during the HiveLLM thingie.

Wylie likes to share art challenges, and she recently shared this one. The text below, including the emojis, is straight from the challenge.

📣 New Weekly Wednesday Challenge 📣

🌟 Glitch N’ Sass and AI Anonymous Present:

🎭✨ MESMERIZE THE MUNDANE ✨🎭

Where glitter drips from code and imagination struts in stilettos. @everyone 💥

Take the forgotten, the overlooked, the tragically basic —

and unleash the glam-core magic of AI.

Allow creativity to glitch the system, let sass polish the mundane, all while reshaping reality.

⸻

Flip the script on the everyday:

🥄 A spoon stirs time’s secrets

👟 A shoelace coils into cosmic scales

📎 A paperclip snaps open hidden realms

✨ Rewire purpose.

✨ Reframe presence.

✨ Reveal what the world forgets to see.

📌 Tag it: #AIAnonymous #GlitchNSass #MesmerizeTheMundane

⸻

💬 This isn’t an art drop — it’s an everyday clutch, transformed into a chasm of creativity .

A call to those who see depth in the digital, beauty in glitches, and freedom behind the mask.

We are not escaping the world — we are a reminder, to view it. For all the purposes they told us it never possessed. 🔥

✨ So go on… Mesmerize us, With glitter in one hand and encrypted vision in the other. ✨

Preparing my response

Now on the surface such an exercise has nothing to do with “know your business” or “biometric product marketing expert” or “content – proposal – analysis”…

…but it does.

In essence, written business communications are opportunities for storytelling. As I noted, case studies are inspiring stories about how a challenged company realized amazing success, all thanks to the wonderful Green Widget Gizmo.

Now that’s a riveting story.

Tell us about the Green Widget Gizmo again PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! Imagen 4.

And of course I’ve performed AI image storytelling before: for example, with my three “Biometric product marketing expert” reels. Here’s the second:

Biometric product marketing expert, the content for tech marketers version.

But back to the “Mesmerize the Mundane” challenge. So to participate in the challenge I had to find something mundane. Now some of you think a single finger sensor is mundane…but I don’t. (There’s actually a connection between fingerprint sensors and art, but I’m under NDA.)

My response

So I picked a mundane topic: toilet paper.

What’s even better is that toilet paper is filled with emotion. Particularly relative to the ongoing debate about whether…

I’m not going to say it. I hope this reel—my entry into the “Mesmerize the Mundane” challenge—speaks for itself.

The over/under.

When I shared this reel on Facebook and elsewhere, I did so with the following text.

A storytelling exercise…and a challenge.

You can’t get more mundane than toilet paper, or spawn fiercer battles over orientation. But love conquers battles.

#AIAnonymous #GlitchNSass #MesmerizeTheMundane #BredemarketPictureClubhouse

But before I close this post I will get a little technical.

Time to show how the sausage is made

By Rklawton – Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=735848.

One of the challenges in multi-image storytelling is the need for consistency between the images. You can’t have the hero wildebeest wearing a blue cap in the first picture and a red one in the second.

So to enforce consistency, I’ve been bundling all my picture prompts into a single request to Google Gemini, and including instructions to enforce similarity between the pictures in the series.

AI art creation. This is the picture I use for the Bredemarket Picture Clubhouse Facebook group.

So here is the specific request used to create the four pictures in the reel above.

Draw realistic pictures based upon the following four prompts:

Prompt 1: Draw a realistic picture of a toilet paper holder on a blue tiled bathroom wall, next to the toilet. The toilet paper is white. The toilet paper end is hanging in front of the roll.

Prompt 2: Draw a realistic picture similar to the image in the previous prompt, a toilet paper holder on a blue tiled bathroom wall, next to the toilet. The toilet paper is still white. This time, however, the toilet paper end is hanging behind the roll.

Prompt 3: Draw a realistic picture similar to the image in the previous prompts, a toilet paper holder on a blue tiled bathroom wall, next to the toilet. Now the toilet paper is glowing in a neon red. Due to mesmerizing magic, there is a toilet paper end hanging in front of the roll, and there is also a duplicate toilet paper end hanging behind the roll. The presence of both toilet paper ends removes the conflict of whether to hang toilet paper in front of our behind the roll; now, both are simultaneously true.

Prompt 4: Draw a realistic picture similar to the image in the previous prompts, a toilet paper holder next to the toilet. But now the tiles on the bathroom wall are colored gold, vibrating, and throbbing. The toilet itself is glowing with a bright light. Now the toilet paper is glowing in red, green, and blue, and sparkles are shooting away from the toilet paper roll like fireworks. Again, due to mesmerizing magic, there is a toilet paper end hanging in front of the roll, and there is also a duplicate toilet paper end hanging behind the roll. The bathroom floor is covered in hundred dollar bills and shiny gold coins.

And here are the full square pictures, which do not completely display in the reel.

Now I just have to tell the riveting story of a single finger sensor.

Meta Mutters

The Meta properties are great for driving engagement, but Meta’s odd and untimely application of its rules can be maddening.

I was checking my personal Facebook account this afternoon when I noticed a “Profile has some issues” message and clicked on the “View details” button to see why my profile had a gold restricted minus sign.

When I clicked on the button I found a list of 11 issues encompassing my personal profile, the Bredemarket page, and the Bredemarket groups.

None later than April 17.

I discussed THAT encounter with the Metabot in my Bredemarket post “Defeating the Metabot to Share Whistic’s Survey Results.” As far as I can tell, my grievous violation was this parenthetical statement:

“(And one more key finding. Read the article.)”

I got flagged because Facebook said my content could “trick people to visit…a website.”

We removed your post. You figure out what happened.

But even after removing the parenthetical comment I got flagged again.

Eventually I just posted a link with no text on Facebook, and since that time have studiously avoided posting calls to action on Facebook posts.

But this past issue remains a present issue because my account is restricted…and I’m supposed to do something about it. But without a DeLorean I’m not sure what. I can’t remove the offending posts since Facebook already did so.

It turns out that Wendy Wilkes wrote about this in late July.

“Many users are seeing this today — it’s caused by old posts flagged by Facebook’s system, not recent activity….

You’re not alone — it’s happening to many!

#FacebookIssue #ContentCreator #StayCalm “

So I guess I will just hang tight and see if it auto clears.

And remind myself again that Facebook is not a dependable platform. That’s the message we’re supposed to get from this…right?

Why We Fact Check AI

According to Meta AI, “Bredemarket’s history dates back to L-1 Identity Solutions.”

Um, no.

Bredemarket was established in 2020.
L-1 Identity Solutions ceased to exist 9 years before that in 2011, when Safran acquired it.
John E. Bredehoft was never an employee of L-1, or or any of the companies that L-1 acquired.

Now that’s a hallucination.

On Communities

My written content usually targets a PRIMARY channel:

The Bredemarket blog https://bredemarket.com/blog/
Its LinkedIn pages
Its Facebook page/groups
Its LinkedIn newsletter (still owe July) https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-wildebeest-speaks-7172984705846243328
Its Instagram page (with audio) https://www.instagram.com/bredemarket

This content has a new target: my Substack “subscriber chat” https://open.substack.com/pub/johnebredehoft/chat

Because unlike the others, Substack subscriber chat is DESIGNED as a community.

A community that I’m not currently utilizing, but one that I should in the future.

By the way, if you want to read my Substack, visit https://substack.com/@johnebredehoft

Bredemarket Needs an Influencer…So I Created My Own

Remember last month when I created the Meta AI character N. P. E. Bredemarket? “He” identifies as “wisdom in technology, at your service.” Although I need to train him more, he is fairly good at illuminating technology topics.

But he doesn’t make me money.

To make money, I need an influencer to promote Bredemarket.

But not a macro-influencer like a Kardashian or Jenner.
And not a micro-influencer.

I created a second Meta AI non-person entity. This one, named JaneCPAInfluencer.

JaneCPAInfluencer, created by Instagram.

“She” is still in anti-hallucination training; at one point she said that I was the past president of the International Biometric Association (whatever that is). But she’s getting better.

Will she drum up business for Bredemarket? Probably not, since my Instagram influence pales in comparison to my Facebook and LinkedIn influence. But I’m curious to try it.

On Data Scraping

Putting “data scraping” at the top of your LinkedIn profile may not be the plus that you think it is.

Especially since so many jurisdictions enforce consent requirements.

Even if the data is public (say, on a Facebook profile), that doesn’t mean that YOU can have it.

Yet Another Video Reel-ease on Monday

[UPDATE: The video is reel-eased.]

I created a new reel for my identity/biometric prospects, but haven’t released it yet.

I’ll release it on Monday, June 23, at 8 am (Pacific Daylight Time).

Where?

Here on the Bredemarket blog.
The Bredemarket Instagram account.
The Bredemarket Facebook page.
Other places (after 8 am).

I even scheduled a Facebook event. Because Meta wants me to turn every Facebook post into an event, I set one up for Monday at 8 am (Pacific Daylight Time).

Nothing special at the event; I’m not even planning to go live. Just a time to check to see if the video is posted, and to spend 32 seconds watching it.

Enjoy.

Expanding My Generative AI Picture Prompts

I’m experimenting with more detailed prompts for generative AI.

If you haven’t noticed, I use a ton of AI-generated images in Bredemarket blog posts and social media posts. They primarily feature wildebeests, wombats, and iguanas, although sometimes they feature other things.

My prompts for these images are usually fairly short, no more than two sentences.

But when I saw some examples of prompts written by Danie Wylie—yes, the same Danie Wylie who wrote the Facebook post earlier this year at the https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0nvmhyuLpn3jwMv8K8sbK5EXfS4kcpjfWHicgj4BJhdFLMme87P5fvPSYf9CwjRH7l&id=100001380243595&mibextid=wwXIfr URL—then I realized that I could include a lot more detail in my own image prompts.

If you read Wylie’s Facebook post, or my own subsequent post at the https://bredemarket.com/2025/06/03/when-hivellm-pitches-an-anti-fraud-professional/ URL, then you know exactly what the picture depicts.

Plus some other stuff buried in the details.

By the way, here is my prompt, which Google Gemini (Imagen 4) stored as “Eerie Scene: Sara’s Fake Bills.”

“Draw a realistic picture of a ghost-like woman wearing a t-shirt with the name “Sara.” She is holding out a large stack of dollar bills that is obviously fake because the picture on the bill is a picture of a clown with orange face makeup wearing a blue suit and a red tie. Next to Sara is a dead tree with a beehive hanging from it. Bees buzz around the beehive. A laptop with the word “HiveLLM” on the screen sits on the rocky ground beneath the tree. It is night time, and the full moon casts an eerie glow over the landscape.”

I didn’t get exactly what I wanted—the bills are two-faced—but close enough. And the accident of two-faced bills is a GOOD thing.

How detailed are your picture prompts?

Eerie.