His interest in meme culture began with a chance encounter with 9GAG, where he observed humor transcending language barriers to create a shared visual lexicon. Sourcing images from his Discord community, he reshapes them into looping GIFs that turn fleeting internet humor into recurring characters.² These characters form Level 1, a growing cast of absurd, surreal figures drawn from internet culture and meme lore, each stored as a unique 1 of 1 artwork.^3,4 The series was presented at SOLOS gallery in November 2024.^5,6

Individual pieces from the series, including sweater trex and kitty nurse, have been released as reserve auctions on the platform Verse.^3,4 TinySoul sources images from global audiences, creating pieces that invite the community to co-create the narrative. Verse uses social metrics such as likes, retweets and comments to decide which of his pieces go to auction, turning audience engagement into a curatorial tool.⁷