This Secret Midjourney Style Explorer Trick Changes Everything

The short version

In this short clip, Drew, Rory, and guest Allar Haltsonen stumble onto a Style Explorer trick: running Midjourney's smart search on a style code, instead of an image, surfaces its closest visual cousins. They call it a hidden game-changer for quickly finding related aesthetics without endlessly scrolling Explorer's normal search.

Key takeaways

Run Midjourney's smart search on a style code instead of an image to instantly surface its closest visual cousins.

Smart search results are consistently higher quality than the normal Explorer search in the top right, according to the hosts.

Smart search also works on images, not just styles: click any image, like a product shot, to find visually similar ones.

Switching Explorer's tab to styles after a smart search applies that close stylistic connection instead of just a generic image match.

Receipts · said on the record

“That's a nugget right there. I guarantee nobody knows about that right now.”

Fast Hours His reaction to discovering the smart-search style trick

“Let me find the one style I like and let me find the the distant, you know, like the close cousins to it here.”

Fast Hours On why smart search beats scrolling to find related styles

Questions this episode answers

How do you find styles similar to a Midjourney style code?

Drew, Rory, and guest Allar Haltsonen show that running Midjourney's smart search on a style code, rather than an image, surfaces its closest visual cousins instead of making you scroll through Explorer.

Is Midjourney's smart search better than the regular Explorer search?

The hosts say yes: they've found smart search results are consistently higher quality than using the normal search bar in the top right of Explorer.

Does Midjourney's smart search work on images too, not just styles?

Yes. Clicking an image, like a product shot, and running smart search on it surfaces other images that are visually similar.

Show notes

What if Midjourney’s Style Explorer had a hidden backdoor that nobody told you about? In this clip, Drew, Rory, and Allar stumble onto a secret Smart Search hack that doesn’t just show you images — it reveals the style cousins of any code you plug in.

This little trick feels like cheating. Instead of endlessly scrolling, you instantly uncover new looks, related aesthetics, and styles you’d never find otherwise. Think of it as a style treasure map buried inside Midjourney.

If you’re a creator, designer, or AI tinkerer, this discovery changes how you explore Midjourney forever.

We’ll show you exactly how to do it, why it works better than the normal Explorer search, and how it unlocks a whole new world of creative directions.

Watch until the end — because once you see this hack in action, you’ll never search styles the same way again.