Mysterio had gone viral.
But, very unsurprisingly, not in the way he had hoped.
Humans had a peculiar habit: they liked big things, and they liked things that had not originally been big but became big even more. There was no innuendo here; that was simply how it was.
For instance, had you ever considered making your pet cat twenty times larger?
Yes, some overly practical people would say that in that case, it could swat its owner to death with one paw, which would be far too dangerous. But if that danger were erased at the level of the rules themselves, surely no one would refuse to cuddle a cat twenty times its normal size, right?
Most things humans considered cute, interesting, or beautiful worked this way. They thought a tree was beautiful, so they imagined a World Tree in the realm of elves that could hold up the sky. They found the way birds flew aesthetically pleasing, so they enlarged them into Phoenixes.
From the principles of visual perception, the bigger something was, the more attention it drew. People liked having their attention seized in this way; it gave them a wonderful sense of immersion.
Memes worked the same way.
It could not be denied that from tiny emoji to the widely used variety of meme images and reaction pictures, one easily overlooked fact was that the latter were much larger than the former.
The bigger they were, the more impact they had, the more they drew the eye, and the more fully they conveyed one's feelings. That was why the latter had gradually replaced the former, becoming the tool people used to express themselves more freely through the Internet.
But what if emoji were enlarged tens of thousands of times?
As always, people were struck by emotion