The sight of two dictators tooling around was unsettling but also ripe for a particular key in of mockery.

Peppers Lonely Hearts Club BandorAbbey Roadartwork.

A meme (with shirts)featuring Taylor Swift and a catappeared in 2015.

Sonic Youth (Photo by Chris Carroll/Corbis via Getty Images)

Sonic Youth in 1990. The cover of their album ‘Goo’ has spawned an inordinate number of memes.Chris Carroll/Corbis/Getty Images

In 2018,Beyonce was spottedwearing a shirt that mashed up Pettibons illustration and Jay-Z artwork.

These memes take on a life of their own, Pettibon tellsRS.

I hesitate to analyze or make sense of it.

Any attempt to do so would be futile and why do so anyway?

It might break the spell?

For her contribution, Spanish artist Paula Garcia incorporated characters fromStranger Things.

Lewis also used an image of Steve Carell in sunglasses for aGoo/The Officemashup.

It says a lot about Raymond and his artwork, which has this devilish undertone to it.

I dont even know how much Sonic Youth has to do with it at this point.

People have just applied it to so many different situations.

Unable to find any band merch in her small town, she made her ownGooshirts at the time.

I grew way more aware of my privilege, she says.

That information was so in the forefront.

It felt more heightened.

By coincidence, the 30th anniversary ofGooarrived that June.

As Legault recalls, I love that album and it just came together on a whim.

It was all whirlwind, heat and flash.

Within a week we killed my parents and hit the road) replaced with The police killed Breonna Taylor.

The police killed Isaiah Lewis.

It was all whirlwind, heat and flash.

No justice no peace.

No justice no peace.

No justice no peace.

But even 34 years afterGoo, the members of Sonic Youth admit theyre somewhat mystified by the continuing tributes.

But like anything in our punk rock universe, nothing is sacred.