DETROIT – The city of Detroit installed its own version of the “Hollywood” sign before the NFL draft, and, well, it’s fair to say some people aren’t impressed.
The sign was unveiled along eastbound I-94 between Central Street and Cecil Avenue, a collaboration between the city, DTE Energy, MDOT, FHWA and the Fairmount Sign Company.
It took several weeks for the letters to be built and then a few days for them to be installed, but now that it’s up, some people aren’t thrilled with the look.
Comments on the city’s Facebook page feature jokes like, “They got the letters off someone’s refrigerator,” and, “When you order your “Hollywood style” sign from Wish.”
Detroit rapper GMac Cash already dropped a song dissing the sign, which is just classic GMac Cash. The song starts with “it looks like they got these letters from Toys R Us, bruh!”
One of the biggest discrepancies people are pointing out is that it doesn’t look like a “rendering” that was floating around the internet, but that rendering, linked here, was never an official rendering -- it was just an AI generated image spread by Instagram accounts like MetroDetroitNews.
The sign was never going to be almost as big as the Ren Cen, guys. Come on.
The official rendering that was released by the city is below, and it’s pretty close to the real sign.
Not everyone hates it, there are plenty of supportive reactions on social media, but when you’re comparing the real world to the AI world, you’re going to have some issues.