funhouse mirror

English

Noun

funhouse mirror (plural funhouse mirrors)

1. A type of distorting mirror with strong distortion effect used for amusement in funhouses and carnivals, especially in a hall of mirrors.
   • 2008, James Boyle, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind‎^[1], Yale University Press:

     In this chapter I want to offer a suggestion that in any other field would be stunningly obvious, boring even, but in the funhouse mirror of intellectual property appears revolutionary.

   • 2015 February 24, Lilian Min, “How the Internet Invented a New Kind of Storytelling”, in The Atlantic‎^[2]:

     For while most comics have designated entry points into the story in the form of arcs, Homestuck is one elaborate, self-referencing inside joke collapsed inside its own funhouse mirror reflection.