Formation
Morphological reading: paparazzi + panopticon.
Celebrity photography and total surveillance are welded into one apparatus. The joke is also diagnostic: being looked at becomes system architecture.
Source
Earliest indexed occurrence: Normie Repellent, $5/mo. · 2022-06-10.
“closed-casket massacrees, velvet-interiored, guilty and inferior. disembodied paparazzopticon surveillance apparatus I never signed up for any of this…”
Why it matters
The point is not merely novelty. The collision arrives before the definition does. See The JQD word-machine and the lexicon entry.