View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgsvWeaqqW4
Not sure what happened to the original, but this video and a genre of memes known as "surreal memes" gaining notoriety in 2016 reminds me how an obscure thing can evolve and proliferate on the internet until most people are aware of it, but for reasons completely unrelated to its origins. specialmemefresh's mememan will for the foreseeable future be known by most as the stonks guy in fortnite... it makes me sad, but also kind of happy that mememan used to be an inside joke between me and my friends, and still is since most other people around me just think he is the stonks guy or diamon hanz from fortnite.
It also reminds me of how you can witness things from completely different worlds can come together to form something you never expected, like seeing cartoon crossover as a kid.
A shitty 3d model from some kid's obscure surreal ironic humor facebook group goes from the "succ" guy to the "stonks" guy format on mainstream social media, that knockoff "poorman's pubg" in july of 2017 becomes the biggest game in the world paving the way for every online game after to implement a f2p battle pass system, a bunch of shady finance bros get caught redhanded by some retards on wallstreetbets with the 2021 Gamestop diamond hands fiasco, and Epic adds "mememan" into Fortnite as diamond hanz, and inbetween all of these events is a myriad of subevents I don't have the energy to write about.
I wish i could phrase it more eloquently, but this sort of butterfly, domino, chaos, effect idk what to call it of how completely unrelated things come together and evolve in a way no one can predict is something I think about often. I guess it's essentially the same as thinking about how many events had to take place, how many people had to meet, in the particular way they did for you to be here reading this thread, type thing...
Lore.
The world is full of it.