No, OPW isn't about internet memes at -all-. From the History section on rasputina.com:
"Creager wrote the songs featured on Oh Perilous World over the last two years after deciding current world events were more bizarre than anything she could scrounge up from the distant past. She obsessively read daily news on the Internet, copying words, phrases and whole stories that especially intrigued her. "
That said, I can't make the connection between the meaning of this song and recent events either. The emotion it evokes is crystal clear, but the exact terms on which the metaphor is based... are not.
No, OPW isn't about internet memes at -all-. From the History section on rasputina.com:
"Creager wrote the songs featured on Oh Perilous World over the last two years after deciding current world events were more bizarre than anything she could scrounge up from the distant past. She obsessively read daily news on the Internet, copying words, phrases and whole stories that especially intrigued her. "
That said, I can't make the connection between the meaning of this song and recent events either. The emotion it evokes is crystal clear, but the exact terms on which the metaphor is based... are not.