It seems to just have become a spectacle and also the way the media just focuses on Epstein and not the connections, implications of those connections and the wider structures this group operated in puts the focus on this one guy only, on purpose. This kind of shifts the focus to a very ruling class friendly place where it all just becomes an exhausting and depressing spectacle of bad with no solutions anywhere.

If we'd have journalism we might have articles on why the women in the former Soviet Union were in such a precarious situation to be exploited and how people like Epstein and many others like him utilize that, how that is tied to geopolitics, the economy and power and domination and so on and so forth. Or we might get articles on pathriarchal violence, it's ties to capitalism and domination. But we get none of that, we get the fast moving spectacle where nobody has time to stop and think.

I think the memefication of it just reflects this and it isn't just in this case, it's a kind of ironic resigned response of "it is what it is, but what can you do".