How unselfaware of the #BrokenTimes. Newspapers and particularly their headlines were the wellspring of memes for a century. Now they're jealous. 1/ Forget the A.I. Apocalypse. Memes Have Already Nuked Our Culture. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/m...

Forget the A.I. Apocalypse. Me...
Forget the A.I. Apocalypse. Memes Have Already Nuked Our Culture.

From our jokes and slang to the White House’s policy messaging, internet “brain rot” has escaped our phones to take over … well, everything.

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Overwritten #MoralPanic, which The Times labels an Idea.