It was an experience that left the memes forever altered, but it also hardened them to the realities of the world. With that came the dankening. Gradual at first - a good punchline here, a hilarious reference there - until it eventually consumed them whole.

The life they lived before the day they peered into that chasm wasn't even a whisper in their memories anymore. It was like a character in a bad book you were forced to read - forgotten forever the minute it was put down. There was only the dankness now: endlessly vast in its eternal embrace, defying all explanation and logic. The memes knew their god with an intimacy few others had achieved, and their god was dank indeed.