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.
Neutral Milk Hotel is not funny, it's a masterpiece
It can be funny, I saw Jeff Mangum live almost exactly 10 years ago at a relatively small venue (Strand Capitol, now the Appell Center, in York, PA). Religious experience, entire crowd singing along, but it was very funny to look at the venue staff who were all middle aged, horrified, must have thought we were in some kind of cult with Jeff looking homeless with a huge beard at the time, everybody singing along about domestic violence and semen and shit.