Thousand-yard stare
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The thousand-yard stare is a blank, unfocused gaze of people experiencing dissociation due to acute stress or traumatic events. The phrase was originally used to describe war combatants and the post-t
War artist Thomas C. Lea III's The Two-Thousand Yard Stare, which has since then become an Internet meme.
An exhausted U.S. Marine exhibits the thousand-yard stare after two days of constant fighting at the Battle of Eniwetok, February 1944.
Internet meme
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An Internet meme, or meme, is a cultural item that spreads across the Internet, now primarily through social media platforms. Internet memes manifest in a variety of formats, including images, videos,
Thousand-yard stare
…War artist Thomas C. Lea III's The Two-Thousand Yard Stare, which has since then become an Internet meme. An exhausted U.S. Marine exhibits the thousand-yard stare after two days of constant fighting at the Battle of Eniwetok, February 1944. The thousand-yard…
A lolcat image macro, a meme style especially popular in the mid-and-late 2000s
An example of the Doge meme, popular in 2013 and similar in style to earlier lolcats
Example of a "deep-fried" meme, featuring distortion and saturated colors
Some Internet memes have been criticized for being deliberately meaningless and nonsensical, such as the 6-7 meme.