galaxy-brain

English

Alternative forms

galaxy brain

Etymology

From a popular image macro meme in which an increasingly absurd or surreal series of thoughts with a common theme is paired with a series of images showing a human brain expanding and emitting progressively brighter beams of light, thus ironically presenting the ideas as too profound for an average mind to comprehend rather than nonsensical.[1]

Adjective

galaxy-brain (comparative more galaxy-brain, superlative most galaxy-brain)

(Internet slang, often sarcastic) Enigmatic, perplexing, unfathomable; difficult to understand or comprehend.
- 2018, Barry Thompson, "Heavy Leather Topless Dance Party", DigBoston, 20 September 2018, page 12:
  On the surface, none of this makes sense. Yet it becomes rational once you explore the context—in fact, if you glimpse the bigger picture, the scene crosses the threshold into galaxy-brain logic.
- 2019, Natalia Galicza, "For The Record", The Fine Print, Winter 2019, page 10:
  Permatemp, the upcoming album from A. J. Herring's usually one-man band Velma and the Happy Campers, seeks to explore the galaxy-brain realization that the only permanent thing about life is its impermanence.
- 2019, Laura Bradley, "Does Joker Really Have to Be About the Joker? Warner Bros. Execs Reportedly Debated Just That", Vanity Fair, 28 October 2019:
  Hollywood is no stranger to the occasional galaxy-brain take, but this one is pretty out there—as Warner Bros. execs evaluated Todd Phillips’s Joker script back in 2017, they reportedly found themselves in “lively conversations” centered around one jarring question: Does Joker really need to be about, like, the Joker?
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:galaxy-brain.

References

Brian Feldman, "What Level of Brain-Meme Irony Are You On?", New York Magazine, 15 March 2017

[1] Brian Feldman, "What Level of Brain-Meme Irony Are You On?", New York Magazine, 15 March 2017

单词	galaxy-brain
释义	galaxy-brain English Alternative forms galaxy brain Etymology From a popular image macro meme in which an increasingly absurd or surreal series of thoughts with a common theme is paired with a series of images showing a human brain expanding and emitting progressively brighter beams of light, thus ironically presenting the ideas as too profound for an average mind to comprehend rather than nonsensical.[1] Adjective galaxy-brain (comparative more galaxy-brain, superlative most galaxy-brain) (Internet slang, often sarcastic) Enigmatic, perplexing, unfathomable; difficult to understand or comprehend. 2018, Barry Thompson, "Heavy Leather Topless Dance Party", DigBoston, 20 September 2018, page 12: On the surface, none of this makes sense. Yet it becomes rational once you explore the context—in fact, if you glimpse the bigger picture, the scene crosses the threshold into galaxy-brain logic. 2019, Natalia Galicza, "For The Record", The Fine Print, Winter 2019, page 10: Permatemp, the upcoming album from A. J. Herring's usually one-man band Velma and the Happy Campers, seeks to explore the galaxy-brain realization that the only permanent thing about life is its impermanence. 2019, Laura Bradley, "Does Joker Really Have to Be About the Joker? Warner Bros. Execs Reportedly Debated Just That", Vanity Fair, 28 October 2019: Hollywood is no stranger to the occasional galaxy-brain take, but this one is pretty out there—as Warner Bros. execs evaluated Todd Phillips’s Joker script back in 2017, they reportedly found themselves in “lively conversations” centered around one jarring question: Does Joker really need to be about, like, the Joker? For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:galaxy-brain. References Brian Feldman, "What Level of Brain-Meme Irony Are You On?", New York Magazine, 15 March 2017
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