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
The human brain, and the body that it controls, cannot do more than one or a few things at once. If a meme is to dominate the attention of a human brain, it must do so at the expense of ‘rival’ memes. Other commodities for which memes compete are radio and television time, billboard space, newspaper column-inches, and library shelf-space.
Meme: a humorous image, video, piece of text, etc., that is copied (often with slight variations) and spread rapidly by internet users.