Deep fried memes emerged as a unique internet phenomenon on Tumblr in 2015. While the origin of the meme is unknown, the first recognized use of the term came from user paparoachscarsmp3 ...

Internet memes are a thriving new medium ... The whole franken-image is then “deep-fried“—hit with a bunch of Photoshop distortion and graininess—and emblazoned with the caption ...