Search for "pixel art" in HN's search and you'll see most of the last submissions are the same fake pixel art.

"pixel art" NYC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46721802

"pixel art" Rio: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50448289

"pixel art" London: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50163735

"pixel art" Valencia: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50441518

"pixel art" world: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49674973

There's almost a hundred of them and I'm not exagerating:

> https://isometriccities.com/ Since Isometric NYC, makers around the world have been rebuilding their hometowns as giant SimCity-style maps. We collect every one of them. 98 maps

Yeah. I'm surprised this technique hasn't yet caught on among people doing generative visuals with "pixel art" aesthetics: https://github.com/Hugo-Dz/spritefusion-pixel-snapper