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GLOBAL MEME ECONOMY COLLAPSES AFTER STEVEN TYLER’S VACATION PHOTOS GO VIRAL

Manhattan, NY – The internet was brought to a standstill today after a single, grainy photo of Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler surfaced online, single-handedly bankrupting the worldwide meme stock market.

The image, captured by a bewildered tourist at a local pharmacy, shows the 76-year-old rock legend looking like he just finished a 72-hour bender in a haunted mansion. He is wearing a single, impossibly large feather boa, a pair of sunglasses that are clearly just two separate bottle caps, and mismatched Crocs. In his hand, he holds a receipt that appears to be four feet long.

Financial analysts are baffled. “We were completely unprepared for this,” said Dr. Anya Sharma, head of the Viral Economics Institute at MIT. “The sheer velocity of the ‘Steven Tyler Drops the Milk’ meme variant has outpaced every model. It’s like he knew the precise algorithm to break the internet. He is the chaos monkey.”

The internet has been flooded with speculative memes, including:

• The Value of Time: A split image of Albert Einstein’s formula E=mc² next to a picture of Tyler with the caption: “Energy = Mass of Scarves x (Speed of Rock God)².”

• The Funko Pop Apocalypse: A photo of a single, disheveled Steven Tyler Funko Pop figurine in a dumpster with the caption: “Q4 Earnings Report.”

• Corporate Shutdown: A formal-looking graph labeled “Standard & Poor’s 500” replaced with a single line reading: “Steven Tyler found a vintage leather vest with fringe.”

The Federal Reserve has issued an emergency statement: “Do not, under any circumstances, attempt to trade Steven Tyler’s neck scar