wait a minute, i know what this ‘deteriorating meme’ is
it’s a variant of that whole ‘coaxed into a snafu thing’
you know like how there was that original troll face
and then came these
can’t forget to add this
A lot of the better jokes here are just recycled from 4chan.
But did you know these stemmed from the copyright infringement shitstorm on reddit back in 2011 as a way to continue using the concept of trollface without actually employing Trollface©?
Some internet scholars argue this was one of many tipping points that contributed to the absurdist wave of post-ironic nihilism that has developed ever since within the memeing community.