6-7 and the First World War: How Internet absurdism became Dada's unlikely heir

The article compares internet absurdist memes like '6-7' to Dadaism, a 1916 art movement founded at Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich as a reaction to World War I.

Dadaists like Tristan Tzara and Marcel Duchamp rejected conventional meaning, with Duchamp's 'Fountain' (a signed urinal) redefining art, reflecting similar anti-meaning in modern memes.