Don't let machines or the crowd decide your world
An easy way to think about this is many are constantly eating a form of cultural Big Mac every day, while Michelin-quality food is just a click away, but essentially invisible because it requires a tiny amount more work. They don’t even know they’re doing this, how this affects their mind, or what they’re missing.
Adam Singer • Don't let machines or the crowd decide your world
. Remixes and memes abound, but almost no one shares anything weird, original or different. People wake up, perhaps with ambitions to make unique choices they believe are their own, only to find that the options have been filtered, curated, and ‘tailored to existing tastes’ by algorithms that claim to know them best.
Adam Singer • Don't let machines or the crowd decide your world
It’s interesting because a reposted meme must have been created by someone. So, some people are original creators. However, I think it comes down to volume and proportion, how many reposts are there for every original post. 10x, 100x, 1000x. I would add that the incentives/commercialisation of the content creator only fuels the volume dynamic.