Months ago, the “Expanding Brain” meme took hold as the internet’s favorite way of describing increasingly bad ideas, ironically illustrated with ever-more-elaborate light-up brains. Now ...

Brain memes, like the Wojak variant, have their origin in the “Whomst” progression, an escalating, ridiculous series of not-quite-words that make someone sound smarter.

Big brain memes have carved out a unique niche in internet culture, offering a blend of humor, sarcasm, and pseudo-intellectual commentary. Expand Your Mind With These Big Brain Memes Skip to content ...

But one template message did what no other had done before: it became a meme and breached the mainstream: “This list is incomplete. You can help by expanding it,” it reads.