You saw the lightsabers, bitcoin, and FlyTok.
There is also a skateboard. And a robot. And HR.
Direct X posts for 14 of the 16 examples. These are creator posts, not a ranking by virality; the DOOM link is the later widely shared clip. I could not locate the exact Flybook post or an associated Workday post. Skip to the preview gallery ↓
| Example | What happens | Associated X post |
|---|---|---|
| Skateboarding to dubstep | A tiny skateboard session ends when the bass drops and the fly falls off. Tony Hawk: Pro Drosophila. | @superalesha ↗ |
| Doing the YMCA | Four tones cue four letter-shaped poses. The creator jokes that the fly has traded its capacity for love for the YMCA. | @dhruvbhatia0 ↗ |
| Getting a body. Trying to leave. | A fly-model-controlled Stack-chan robot jerks its head away from an approaching hand. Its first interaction with the physical world is an attempted exit. | @superalesha ↗ |
| The Flybook | Facebook for six flies: profiles, a wall, and the question of who gets a buzz back. Three male and three female models mingle in a digital fruit bowl. | Exact X post not located; indexed announcement ↗ |
| FlappyFly | A fly plays Flappy Bird and is, by its creator's own account, terrible at it. Somehow the one game a fly should be qualified for. | @superalesha ↗ |
| A rave it did not request | Heavy electronic music sends the virtual fly staggering and eventually to the floor. The prequel to the skateboard incident. | @superalesha ↗ |
| Super Mario 64 | A fly-model-driven Mario attempts the Mushroom Kingdom. The species crossover nobody needed, but everyone needed to see. | @barrelshifter ↗ |
| Bad Apple!! on its brain | The internet's inevitable Bad Apple port, except the screen is a visualization of a fly's neurons. | @linguinelabs ↗ |
| DOOM | Of course someone asked whether the fly could run DOOM. Game frames feed simulated sensory neurons; their activity is mapped to the controls. | @nftechie_ ↗ |
| A Minecraft life | A connectome-driven fly moves into Minecraft. An entire sandbox universe, now available to an insect. | @evnsnclr ↗ |
| Fly Escape Room | Arrange objects in a house and try to get the fly NPCs outside. Finally, a video game about the real-life difficulty of showing a fly an open window. | @dzhng ↗ |
| Fruit fly heaven | After the games and involuntary music sessions, someone proposes an endless world of fruit, trees, and peaceful flying. | @sainimatic ↗ |
| A job. With HR. | An agent turns the fly model's signals into meal-voucher and PTO requests. Startle it and it may file a workplace safety complaint about you. | No associated X post located |
| FlyTok | A fly doomscrolls its own short-video feed, with artificial dopamine stimulation. The creator's stated ambition: out-happy all other flies combined. | @mattyhempstead ↗ |
| Bitcoin trader / StonkFly | The creator gives the fly model $100 and maps neural activity to cryptocurrency trading decisions. A hedge fund with an extremely small research department. | @nftechie_ ↗ |
| Beat Saber | The lightsaber clip: a virtual fly swings through Beat Saber. Fruit flies now have a more interesting weekend than most of us. | @_lyraaaa_ ↗ |
Alexey Fateev · @superalesha
A tiny skateboard session ends when the bass drops and the fly falls off. Tony Hawk: Pro Drosophila.
A separate clip from the earlier electronic-music demo; the description follows the creator's presentation, not an independent biological validation.
Dhruv Bhatia · @dhruvbhatia0
Four tones cue four letter-shaped poses. The creator jokes that the fly has traded its capacity for love for the YMCA.
The claim about losing love is a joke, not an established neuroscience finding.
Alexey Fateev · @superalesha
A fly-model-controlled Stack-chan robot jerks its head away from an approaching hand. Its first interaction with the physical world is an attempted exit.
The creator describes mapping a simulated escape circuit to the robot's head movement. This is not a conscious fly uploaded into a robot.
Alex Wormuth · @nftechie_
Facebook for six flies: profiles, a wall, and the question of who gets a buzz back. Three male and three female models mingle in a digital fruit bowl.
The project explicitly says learned social preference is an open question. Its illustrated profiles are not literal fly-authored text.
Alexey Fateev · @superalesha
A fly plays Flappy Bird and is, by its creator's own account, terrible at it. Somehow the one game a fly should be qualified for.
An engineered mapping stimulates a simulated escape circuit as pipes approach; this is not evidence of a fly understanding the game.
Alexey Fateev · @superalesha
Heavy electronic music sends the virtual fly staggering and eventually to the floor. The prequel to the skateboard incident.
This is the creator's music-to-simulation demo; the clip does not establish suffering or musical experience.
Jessica Paquette · @barrelshifter
A fly-model-driven Mario attempts the Mushroom Kingdom. The species crossover nobody needed, but everyone needed to see.
A playful game-control demonstration, not a validated claim of competent or independently learned play.
Linguine Labs · @linguinelabs
The internet's inevitable Bad Apple port, except the screen is a visualization of a fly's neurons.
The neural visualization is being used as a display. Do not confuse that with a fly understanding or performing the music.
Alex Wormuth · @nftechie_
Of course someone asked whether the fly could run DOOM. Game frames feed simulated sensory neurons; their activity is mapped to the controls.
The original post asks whether it will learn to survive. It does not establish that it has learned to play well.
Evan Sinclair Smith · @evnsnclr
A connectome-driven fly moves into Minecraft. An entire sandbox universe, now available to an insect.
The creator explicitly describes this as an interactive connectome experiment, not a complete recreation of a living fly or evidence of consciousness.
David Zhang · @dzhng
Arrange objects in a house and try to get the fly NPCs outside. Finally, a video game about the real-life difficulty of showing a fly an open window.
The current repository says each fly uses a selected connectome subgraph with approximate dynamics, sensory inputs, and movement rules.
Macroblock · @sainimatic
After the games and involuntary music sessions, someone proposes an endless world of fruit, trees, and peaceful flying.
The original is an in-development proposal with a screenshot, not a verified released game.
Kainos Workday AI CoE
An agent turns the fly model's signals into meal-voucher and PTO requests. Startle it and it may file a workplace safety complaint about you.
A separate FlyWire-based demo, not necessarily part of this week's MaleCNS wave. A software agent interprets signals and files requests; the fly itself is not operating HR software.
Matty Hempstead · @mattyhempstead
A fly doomscrolls its own short-video feed, with artificial dopamine stimulation. The creator's stated ambition: out-happy all other flies combined.
The happiness claim is the creator's humorous framing. Simulated dopamine activity does not establish subjective enjoyment.
Alex Wormuth · @nftechie_
The creator gives the fly model $100 and maps neural activity to cryptocurrency trading decisions. A hedge fund with an extremely small research department.
The project describes approximate neurons and an engineered trading interface. Execution status can change; this roundup does not verify profits or continuous live trading.
Lyra Bubbles · @_lyraaaa_
The lightsaber clip: a virtual fly swings through Beat Saber. Fruit flies now have a more interesting weekend than most of us.
The creator clarified that the motor output reproduces a recorded sequence. The viral clip does not yet demonstrate independent Beat Saber play.