The Meme Fossil Record
These memes are extremely dense cultural talismans that accumulate layers and layers of meaning/allusion over time. Like the jargon of academia, memes look like nonsense to outsiders but facilitate deep communication between members of a subculture.Unlike offline communities, these subcultures aren’t always neatly labeled, and people don’t consciou... See more
Aaron Z. Lewis • The garden of forking memes: how digital media distorts our sense of time
(In Filterworld, everything must be a meme, like a remixable joke or image optimized to travel across the Internet.)