funhouse mirror

plural funhouse mirrors

1. A type of distorting mirror with strong distortion effect used for amusement in funhouses and carnivals, especially in a hall of mirrors.

   In this chapter I want to offer a suggestion that in any other field would be stunningly obvious, boring even, but in the funhouse mirror of intellectual property appears revolutionary.

   2008, James Boyle, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, Yale University Press

   1 more example

   For while most comics have designated entry points into the story in the form of arcs, Homestuck is one elaborate, self-referencing inside joke collapsed inside its own funhouse mirror reflection.

   2015 February 24, Lilian Min, “How the Internet Invented a New Kind of Storytelling”, in The Atlantic