Internet Artist SuS BoY's Websites Will Melt Your Mind

The general adage that the internet has sped things up is of course no new observation. But what has really boosted the relentless, 24-hour cultivation of content online are Tumblr and Instagram, where a maze of re-blogs, similar visual styles, neologisms seemingly coined simultaneously, and a cohesive 'net lexicon confound all but a trace of where certain aesthetics originated, for better or worse.

It has engendered what is quite frankly a strange and incredible world—a world in which New York Times music critic Jon Caramanica shares distinct internet verbiage with the fine folks from the SuS BoY-affliated music collective WEDIDIT, for example. And it's undoubtedly why we have "Ginseng Strip 2002," my and many others' personal nomination for worst/best song of 2013 thus far.

So meet SuS BoY, a micro-famous internet artist and web designer behind the artwork and visuals for a number of up-and-coming producers and artists. As his work has become more well known, he's begun to work with more established acts, recently creating the live-show visuals and some brain-numbing web design for Skrillex.

Over the weekend, from the depths of whatever nefarious and sardonic Web 1.0-abyss he lives in, SuS BoY unleashed into the world his latest creation. It's a website he created that exists to promote a line of items from a collaboration between Skrillex and MNWKA. Skrillex's new backpack and hat or whatever are irrelevant, just click here to navigate through a portal into SuS BoY's most recent mind-numbing brain-melt (though Skrillex's new track on the site admittedly is quite good).

The sped-up proliferation of viral micro-trends, so often birthed on Tumblr, results in the very blurred line between who's producing and who's borrowing, which can make it difficult to suss out who's doing the creating versus who's merely co-opting online seconds later.

I'm not sure if SuS BoY's work falls into the former or the latter (or a mélange of the two), but maybe such a distinct line between the two is moot when it comes to human memes designing weird websites.