Meme lore
What is the Expanding Brain meme?
Expanding Brain (also called Galaxy Brain) is a four-panel meme. The right column is baked: a small blue brain scan, glowing neurons, a luminous pink-white brain, then a cyan brain with starbursts. The left column is blank white for four captions that escalate from obvious to absurdly “enlightened.” It satirizes fake intellectualism by treating the most ridiculous option as the smartest.
Origin & history
Know Your Meme credits an r/dankmemes post by janskishimanski on January 31, 2017 pairing who → whom → whomst → whomst'd with these four stock brain images (Galaxy Brain / Expanding Brain). The template spread on r/dankmemes and r/MemeEconomy through February 2017, then to Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram.
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