Language Is a Virus, and People Could Die
The COVID pandemic seemed to accelerate the spread of new viral media, but viruses mutate, pop culture replicates, and everything’s a cover song.
Memes
Barbenheimer, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barbie
Barbie and Oppenheimer recall times when a product changed the world by introducing something new that threatened – or promised – sameness. The resulting Barbenheimer is the meme change of all memes.
In the Aeroplane Over the Meme with Neutral Milk Hotel
Neutral Milk Hotel’s ambiguous 1988 album, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, suffered a memeified atrocity. But the tides of public opinion rise and fall, and memes come and go.