This seems to be roughly when the large-son meme went more or less mainstream.
But it's memes all the way down with this Administration: Trump, the father of the large adult son of the summer, is himself, clearly, a large adult son.
"The Land of the Large Adult Son," by Jia Tolentino.
The definitive quality of the large adult son is that he is endlessly excusable: though he does nothing right, he can do no wrong.
All told, the large, adult son is starting to look a little more like a large, adult man.
They were the three eternalized pharaohs: Khufu, the owner of the largest pyramid, his son Khafre, owner of the second largest pyramid, and his grandson, Menkaure, owner of the smallest.
These days, it's getting harder to separate the large-adult-son meme one of the few reliably good things on the Internet from the larger hellscape of adult-male behavior in which we all live.
The large-adult-son meme takes wing from the idea that men overcompensate when they are humiliated, and that a primary source of this humiliation is interdependence sons act out when they are defined by their fathers, and fathers are disgraced by the oafish flailing of their sons.
She wanted to, in the parlance of Central Brooklyn, "blow up large, son" and worked ceaselessly until she graduated to bona fide celebrity-hood.
For SRS, the T individuals that have the largest numbers of sons and daughters in the pedigree were selected.
