God’s Country A “leaked photo of heaven” has been going mega viral on social media this week. The purported photo shows a half-baked and architecturally unsound city, seemingly carved into a chalky material and set against what appears to be the Milky Way, strongly reminiscent of the “Heaven” called Urdak portrayed in the 2021 video game Doom Eternal. It was a lowbrow and technologically lacking instance of AI slop, but caught the attention of millions of netizens nonetheless. “Leaked photo of heaven is going viral on social media,” one X-formerly-Twitter account wrote in the caption of the photo, which has been viewed just shy of seven million times on the platform. “No wonder Christians are so determined to get there!” Whether the image was shared with the intention of making a joke about how gullible people keep falling for AI slop on social media or not, the viral post again highlights how oafish AI-generated content is slowly becoming a de facto part of content feeds, in a pervasive flood of dubious and misleading content. And while many were sharing the drek ironically, the idea that somehow a picture of “heaven” was “leaked” by some greater power paints a troubling picture of what some on social are willing to believe. “By far the funniest part of this insane post is that even the maniacs who believe this stuff are so media-pilled they refer to it as a ‘leaked photo,'” wrote author Séamas O’Reilly in a post on Bluesky. “As if God,…This "Leaked Photo of Heaven" Went Viral for All the Wrong Reasons