The genius who misinterprets desires: What is the origin of the wave of memes that invaded the internet?

At the beginning of the year, the paintings of the Israeli artist, Irena Aizen, who portrayed rabbits in contemporary style, were the protagonists of dozens of memes around the world for their characteristic expression.These comic images had their greatest popularity in the United Kingdom, as the English phrases that accompanied them played with the double sense to generate laughter in users on the Internet. Shortly afterwards they lost populari…

After the popular memes inspired by Studio Ghibli’s universe, a new trend has taken social media by storm: “the genius misinterpreted my desire,” a series of images generated with Artificial Intelligence that combine humor, classical art and double interpretations. These memes, which simulate realistic illustrations with touches of ancient painting, display absurd or literal scenes of misspoken desires, accompanied by the text: “because the geni…