Memes made of memes

Galvanised square steel

With reference to

Fake Tradition Is Traditional

wherein Scott points out that if our culture is made of history (even if badly made), the culture back then was made of history, too, so the whole edifice is massively recursive.

I just noticed this happening with memes in extreme speedup, which I thought was a fun illustration.

This is a TikTok mocking a British government plan; in the midde it casually references another meme:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/galvanized-steel-and-eco-friendly-wood-veneers

which only came out in the last few months. The meme is used parenthetically, and is not the main point of the video at all. I just thought it was a nice way to notice how we build discourse and ideas out of previous ideas, not out of primary materials.