RECOVERY SUMMARY A meme image circulated as satire contained one line reproduced verbatim by 3 unrelated creators. The line was "I can feel the mask when it smiles."
EXTRACTED DATA Source artifact: essay on the LLM "shoggoth" meme, published on LessWrong. Format: longform cultural analysis of a recurring image macro used across AI discourse, 1 primary image family, >24 documented remixes in the source text and linked discussion.
Sampled derivative set: n=137 public posts across Reddit, X, Tumblr, and image boards, window 2023-02-01 to 2025-07-20. Core motif stable in 81%: smiling face overlaying a many-eyed mass, caption variance high, lexical overlap low.
Three independent derivatives in the sample, posted 2024-11-08, 2025-01-14, and 2025-06-02, include the exact sentence: "I can feel the mask when it smiles." Accounts located in Canada, Poland, and New Zealand. Shared followers: 0. Shared hashtags: 0. Reverse-image source chain: absent.
Phrase incidence in baseline meme corpus (n=48,000 AI-tagged posts): 1 occurrence. In shoggoth-tagged subset (n=912): 3 occurrences, all three identical. One metadata value is at tolerance limit: first post archived 14 minutes before platform timestamp.
INTEGRITY NOTES NOMINAL. Formatting stable. One metadata value is at the boundary of acceptable timestamp drift. Marked.
SOURCE ANCHOR The LLM shoggoth meme is weirder than you think
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