Party Animals just lit the fuse on its own funeral pyre with a $15K AI video contest that has the Steam community torching recent reviews faster than a dumpster fire in July.

Submissions open May 14 to August 31 for the Golden Paw Awards, with rules demanding generative AI handle the heavy lifting on images, video, music, voiceovers and 3D assets — all capped at five minutes and positive on the game's IP. Total purse hits $75K, but the English-speaking playerbase saw red and started slamming the game with negative reviews calling it "AI slop" and promising refunds en masse, per the Dexerto report and r/Games thread.

The irony in the rules banning plagiarism while forcing AI tools that train on stolen work has commenters howling, with one noting the dev's likely Chinese roots mean zero awareness of Western AI hate. Streamers are already canceling play sessions and wiping it from libraries, while overall Steam reviews stay Very Positive but recent ones tanked hard.

Dev radio silence ain't helping — this is pure self-own territory.