Ep. 53—Cracking Midjourney’s Style Explorer + Freepik’s Rise + Higgsfield Prompt Hack
Two tired dads with graying hair accidentally stumble into a killer AI workflow.
In this Halloween-season hang, Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn trade Midjourney Office Hours intel (V8, maybe no 7.1), go deep on the Style Explorer/Style Finder with token-level searches, then build a rapid prompt-testing pipeline across Weavy + multiple image models.
Somewhere between Scream and Sandstorm, they also unpack Freepik’s new “aggregator” lane and Higgsfield’s Popcorn storyboard—then end by stealing prompts (on purpose) with a Chrome trick.
If you’re asking “How do I actually use Midjourney’s Style Explorer to find usable looks?” or “What’s a fast way to test a single prompt across lots of models?”—this one answers both, with receipts.
What you’ll learn
– Midjourney V8 expectations, edit models, multi-image refs, UI shift (less typing, more visual control)
– Token-based Style Explorer searches
– Practical permutations (exp, Chaos 5–7), when Draft Mode helps (and when it doesn’t)
– Weavy “fan-out” testing: run one prompt through Re-Render/Ideogram/Flux/Mystic/Imagen/Luma/etc.
– Freepik as a real workflow hub (collections, templates, brand swaps)
– Higgsfield Popcorn: storyboard → video; plus the Chrome “Recreate” move to harvest solid prompt structure
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#aiart #aivideo #aiworkflow #weavy #freepik #higgsfield #promptengineering #aiimagegeneration #generativeai #texttoimage
#midjourneytips
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⏱️ Midjourney Fast Hour
00:00 Cold open, Halloween vibes, aging gracefully (or not)
02:32 Scream, Stranger Things, Blade nostalgia
06:19 Kids’ costumes, seasonal prompting (moody fall looks)
07:43 Midjourney Office Hours recap: V8 hype, maybe skipping 7.1
09:14 Draft Mode real talk; permutations (exp, chaos) habits
11:38 “Try style” quirks and SRF stacking behavior
14:04 Deep dive: Style Explorer (search by tokens, textures, cameras)
18:00 Token combos for discovery
20:46 Treating styles as presets; niche searches
25:04 “This is my new obsession” → why the search now lands
28:15 Style Creator talk and the coming no-words UI paradigm
31:22 New UI learning curve; what should get simplified or cut
32:10 “Pan/Zoom” redundancy; grid-UI vs chat-UI debate
35:22 Option overload vs micro-tools; how people really adopt features
36:28 Editing & creative features pipeline, edit models, multi-image refs
41:31 Weekly release cadence returning; “sailboat”/secret-projects notes
43:19 Market share, comms, and why MJ must show up on more channels
46:46 Freepik: models, workflows, collections, brand-swap use cases
52:26 From icon packs to aggregator; Canva/Krea comparisons
58:00 Genie note; Higgsfield’s “rage-bait” marketing, Popcorn storyboard
1:00:04 Camera-move snippets as prompt clauses (easy wins)
1:05:05 Higgsfield Chrome extension → “Recreate” → steal the prompt skeleton
1:10:59 Turn that skeleton into a reusable prompt template
1:12:44 Weavy fan-out: test same prompt across 6–8 generators fast
1:15:45 Comparing results; where each model shines
1:17:28 The nugget for the real ones + sign-off and Halloween tease
