Meme Lifecycle Editorial Infographic

{
  "type": "editorial infographic poster",
  "style": "Swiss-modern graphic design with brutalist typography, minimalist grid layout, monochrome base with acid-lime accents, halftone textures, collage elements, clean negative space, high-contrast black text on a very light warm gray background",
  "subject": "an infographic explaining the lifecycle of internet memes as a cultural system",
  "canvas": {
    "orientation": "portrait",
    "background": "very light gray paper texture"
  },
  "layout": {
    "headline_block": {
      "position": "top-left",
      "title": "The Meme Lifecycle",
      "subtitle_top": "Viral today, gone tomorrow.",
      "body": "Memes move fast. They're born, spread, evolve, peak, and fade—only to be remembered, remixed, or forgotten. This is the cycle."
    },
    "intro_icon": {
      "position": "upper-left near headline",
      "description": "small outlined square containing a globe icon with short caption to the right",
      "caption": "// a universal cycle in the attention economy"
    },
    "left_sidebar": {
      "position": "far-left vertical",
      "count": 4,
      "items": [
        "heart outline icon",
        "speech bubble outline icon",
        "repost/retweet outline icon",
        "bookmark outline icon"
      ]
    },
    "main_sections": {
      "count": 5,
      "path": "connected by thin black curved arrows forming a looping cycle across the page",
      "sections": [
        {
          "number": "01",
          "title": "BIRTH",
          "position": "upper-right",
          "visual": "black-and-white halftone cat portrait facing forward, wearing oversized neon-lime star-shaped sunglasses; behind the cat are a jagged acid-lime starburst with a lowercase letter 'a' on it and a lime dotted rectangle",
          "body": "A spark of an idea. New format, new joke, new context. It's niche. It's everything."
        },
        {
          "number": "02",
          "title": "SPREAD",
          "position": "center-right",
          "visual": "large warped black wordmark reading 'SPREAD' stretched vertically and liquified, with several small acid-lime square arrow icons around it and tiny black crop/corner marks",
          "body": "Shared, reposted, reshared. It escapes its original context. It finds the people."
        },
        {
          "number": "03",
          "title": "EVOLVE",
          "position": "mid-left",
          "visual": "collage of 4 overlapping elements: a browser-window-framed grayscale Mona Lisa crop, a huge lowercase acid-lime 'e' in front, a black-and-white pixel-art block shape on the right, and a small acid-lime note box listing the word 'evolve' 5 times with the last line faded",
          "body": "Remixed. Recontextualized. It mutates into new forms. The joke adapts or dies."
        },
        {
          "number": "04",
          "title": "PEAK",
          "position": "mid-right lower than spread",
          "visual": "lime bell-curve histogram made of thin vertical bars inside a black measurement frame with a small central crosshair",
          "body": "Maximum visibility. Mainstream adoption. Everyone gets it. Then it starts to get old."
        },
        {
          "number": "05",
          "title": "FADE",
          "position": "lower-left to lower-center",
          "visual": "the word 'fade' in bold black lowercase, disintegrating into scattered black particles toward the right",
          "body": "Interest drops. New memes take over. It fades into obscurity—or legacy."
        }
      ]
    },
    "bottom_callout": {
      "position": "lower-left",
      "icon": "small black square with white asterisk/star symbol",
      "text": "Memes are temporary. Impact isn't...",
      "button": "What will you create?"
    },
    "footer": {
      "position": "bottom full width",
      "count": 4,
      "columns": [
        {
          "label": "FORMAT:",
          "value": "Digital culture artifact"
        },
        {
          "label": "CYCLE TIME:",
          "value": "Seconds to years (maybe forever)"
        },
        {
          "label": "FUEL:",
          "value": "Creativity, context, community"
        },
        {
          "label": "OUTCOME:",
          "value": "Laughter, connection, culture"
        }
      ],
      "extra_icon": "small target/crosshair icon at the far bottom-right"
    }
  },
  "typography": {
    "headline": "extra-large bold neo-grotesk sans serif",
    "section_numbers": "very large bold condensed sans serif",
    "section_titles": "uppercase bold sans serif with acid-lime underline accent",
    "body": "small clean sans serif, flush-left",
    "footer": "small uppercase labels with lighter body text"
  },
  "color_palette": {
    "base": "black and off-white",
    "accent": "acid lime / chartreuse",
    "secondary": "grayscale halftone"
  },
  "composition_notes": "editorial poster balance with oversized title on the left and modular infographic panels on the right, lots of open space, precise alignment, contemporary design-magazine aesthetic, crisp vector lines mixed with distressed raster collage textures"
}