Gossip Goblin

Gossip Goblin is the working name of Zack London, a 35-year-old Los Angeles native who lives in Stockholm and makes dark, satirical science-fiction shorts with generative AI tools. His Instagram, YouTube and TikTok feeds fill with bleak worlds of mutated creatures, bunker societies and cyborg aristocrats, carried by a philosophical narrator and set in his own mythology, the Thirteen Cycles of Humanity.

London grew up in the San Fernando Valley, studied sculpture and anthropology at Pitzer College, held a Fulbright in Malaysia and then worked as a product designer at start-ups and at Facebook on Oculus virtual-reality projects. He told The Hollywood Reporter that he had always illustrated and written, including self-published travel writing and short fiction, but never saw filmmaking as an option. Around 2022 he began experimenting with early image generators with a coworker. His first hit was a tongue-in-cheek series about Urumquan, an invented Soviet satellite state written up in the style of 1980s National Geographic, with Midjourney images. He moved to Sweden after meeting his Swedish partner, and says the name Gossip Goblin began as a deliberately unserious internet alias.

He describes his process as script first: a script is broken into a shot list, a visual world is defined, and hundreds or thousands of images and clips are generated and refined across 15 to 25 tools, then assembled and edited in DaVinci Resolve. Tools reported in his own Instagram stories include Midjourney, Seedream, Veo 3, Runway and HeyGen. On his longer films every voice is a human actor, and he works with a foley artist and a composer. He has said most AI content is 'slop' and that he is more interested in building a mythology with recurring characters than in single striking images.

In 2026 London quit his tech job, raised a small round and launched Gossip Goblin Studio. He released the 20-minute short The Patchwright in spring 2026 and Pomegranate in July. His anthology feature Gods Don't Give Gifts, four connected stories set on the planet Niiro Cradle, is produced with the Amazon-backed AI studio Fable, sold internationally by AGC International and scheduled for a limited US and UK theatrical release on 4 December 2026 after an earlier 30 October date. By November 2026 his YouTube channel had about 1.58 million subscribers, his Instagram about 1.58 million followers, and press coverage reported studios and streamers had approached him.