The quote “I am become meme” mimics the famous words of J. Robert Oppenheimer after the first successful test of his atomic bomb. On July 16, 1945, following the Trinity blast in New Mexico ...

A further complication, said Matsuzaki, was the “Barbenheimer” meme linking “Oppenheimer” with lighthearted “Barbie,” the other U.S. box-office juggernaut last summer. Some Japanese ...