Illustration: THE WIRE / NOWYAKNOW. Details per Know Your Meme, VGTimes, Kotaku, VGC and XDA. Take two things people already love and flip them into something new. That's the whole trick behind this fall's viral AI mashup mods. The fights that came right after it, over credit, creativity and who gets to say no, are hip-hop's sample wars on a faster clock. Steve from Minecraft started turning up in Elden Ring in late September. On September 29, Tobyn Jacobs posted the clip that became the face of the wave: "I put the entire of game minecraft into elden ring as mod. its runs on Mac." Know Your Meme counted more than 308,000 likes in a week, and VGTimes put the clip at 22.5 million views. A few days later X was full of them: skateboarding in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Escape from Tarkov in Skyrim, Mario fighting Margit, Spider-Man swinging through Gotham. IGN's headline said it plainly: "Vibe-Coded Mashup Mods Have Taken Over X This Week." ...