I don't get these comments at all. You're willing to do the legwork of running the image through an AI detector but not willing to do basic legwork to prove/disprove it?
Tineye marks the oldest version of this image at 2019. AI wasn't good enough to generate an image this good in 2019. The butterfly may have been added in post, the borders are sharp, and that may be what is kicking off the AI detector. Just another example of why those detectors are utterly worthless.
Would kindly ask you check TinEye or something else as well if you're going to bother using one of those 'AI Detectors'. They're not reliable given they'll spark a lot of random shit as AI that was done in Photoshop or just simply exists. They're not reliable on their own.
The context of this meme (which I didn't fully lay out in the title, so that's on me) is also setting the monster up ahead of time as having a deadly looking gaze. The meme is reflecting back the immediate assumptions that people will make based off of a description of a monster, much like how your characters should also react in the same situation.
The DM needs to use language to describe a situation and put the same feeling into you that your characters are also experiencing. By referring to a monsters gaze, that could mean a hundred different things. Referring to it within combat is just adding to that anxiety your character is experiencing. Are they just piercing eyes? Or is it something more?
If anything, this is the most accurate way I can think of to get you as a player to feel the same thing that your character also feels.
You say adversarial but it isn't the DMs job to hold your hand through combat. It is your DMs job to provide a thrilling and engaging experience that pulls you in. Its your job as a player to make the decisions based on the information given you. If everytime that question is ever asked is only for a monster with a gaze attack, then you as a DM are doing a pisspoor job of disguising monster abilities by telegraphing everything they can do ahead of time.
At the very least it helps prevent meta-gaming to an extent. If you're second guessing the GM then you're second guessing the situation which, as a player, you should be. You shouldn't have all the info.
But that's not the definition of wet. Wet is something having liquid adhere to it, usually water. It's a gained quality. Water doesn't adhere to itself, it can't gain the quality of being wet because it is the thing that gives that quality. It's like saying that fire is burnt. It does the burning.
This ain't reddit and if you're talking about universal karma then I've done far far far worse things than a 9/11 joke.