Ever dreamed this man?

Observing the latest internet cult of personality

DALL-E 2 prompt: “A cult worships a giant smartphone, oil painting”

In 2008, an unusual website began to circulate the internet, largely via email and then-nascent social media networks. Titled Ever Dream This Man?, it included a sketch of an unsettling, vaguely simian face, with purported testimonials from thousands of people across the world who insist…