11 thoughts on memes: 1. The 2024 election will be won by t...

11 thoughts on memes: 1. The 2024 election will be won by the candidate with the best memes. 2. The best memes compress mass emotion into simple contagious concepts: "Ok Boomer" or "Karen" 3. Social media has stolen the meme-industrial complex from mainstream media. 4. You… Show more

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Mistakes and Memes

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Think of Memes as any ideas that are passed between lots of people. For example, a language, scientific theory, or religious belief are all memes. Memes have to be actively replicated to survive (i.e. spoken or written and distributed). A Rational Meme is a Good Explanation that relies on the recipient's critical faculties to cause itself to be rep... See more

Alex MacCaw • The Beginning of Infinity

A meme is a piece of content with built-in distribution. It's a piece of content that people can't resist sharing.

Eugene Wei • Tiktok, Emergent Creativity, The Limits of Social Graphs, and whatever else Eugene talked about (E1)

An idea cannot truly go mainstream until it’s wrapped in a “meme” that compels people to recognize, understand, share, and invest time in it.

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