

The series Coaxed Into a Snafu features poorly redrawn variations of internet meme characters, along with reworded versions of their associated catchphrases (shown below, left). In November 2016, YouTuber The Kase Reibe called the meme style a "progressively verbose" meme, giving rise to the now common name "increasingly verbose" as it picked up in /r/coaxedintoasnafu in December 2016.

Some early, alternate names to 'increasingly verbose' include meme corruption, deconstructed memes, verbose memes, and meme decay.

This type of meme has a number of names attached to it due, in part, to a lack of comprehensive structure when creating these types of memes.
