memeverse

When it comes to the memeverse, the academy isn’t playing. This is serious business. […] In fact, some scholar somewhere, as we speak, is probably ginning up a doctoral dissertation on Goatse (a pioneer of Internet meme culture who is famous for planting his own two hands in the deep recesses of his derriere).

2012 June 4, Matt Labash, “The Meme Generation”, in The Weekly Standard, volume 17, number 36, Washington, D.C.: Clarity Media Group, →ISSN, page 26

Like the dream state, the memeverse has a way of assembling familiar colors, shapes, and forms from the reality we more consciously occupy; but the images it conjures and captures (and captions) are unstable — they change shape, or shift premise, or take off on a tangent and turn into something else.

2017 December 27, Michael Andor Brodeur, “The meme class of 2017”, in The Boston Globe