Silicon Valley has found its joke of the summer and, like the enormous white sweater at the center of it, it just keeps growing.
An image of Chamath Palihapitiya, the founder of venture fund Social Capital, wearing a chunky white turtleneck, has taken over tech circles on X.
The picture, which appears to be a screenshot taken from a January 2023 episode of the “All-In” podcast, got a new lease of life when X users added a glass of wine to Palihapitiya’s hand.
Users then fed the original picture into AI image generators, repeatedly expanding and transforming the sweater to increasingly absurd proportions.
The meme has also become a vehicle for…
