I thought I knew a lot about Internet culture, but maybe not? I'm still not sure why New Balance is the incel/ 4chan shoe; what makes the Neutral Milk Hotel album funny and "meme-able"; and why Joker (2019) was so singularly influential for the culture. Does anyone feel like they can't keep up? Should we want to keep up? This makes me wonder if there's an Internet savant out there who sits in the Aleph, the Jorge Borges invention where you can see everything in the universe, but in this case it's a couple decades of Internet drama. Maybe that would be KnowYourMeme, although whenever I've gone there it's riddled with so many ads that it's unreadable.
Joker wasn't the movie the corporate media told us it was. They told us it was going to be the incel Citizen Kane, that it was going to inspire mass shootings, and the media were practically salivating at the thought of multiple tragedies occurring at the premiere.
Nothing of the kind happened. The movie turned out to make the corporate media the villains who take the side of the powerful and tell the little guy he's the source of all evil in society. No wonder they told us not to watch it. Dishonest assholes.