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Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral
people were hotheaded dickheads on the public internet, and much more gracious, agreeable, and forgiving in more circumscribed settings—as a further sign that something was wrong with a prevailing assumption about the competitive marketplace of information. Maybe the winning ideas were not the best ideas but simply the most transmissible ones?
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In short, with democratized access, the web became more saturated than ever before, and as consumers, we began to spend more and more time trying to sort through it all. In a state of analysis paralysis, how do we disaggregate signal from noise?
Gaby Goldberg • Curators All the Way Down
the mainnet turns into a slop of “for anyone” consumer trends and long Twitter battles with bots, but the place where culture actually happens is hidden and so fragmented that it can’t help but create strong divergences between people.
Nick Houde • Good Is Out, Evil Is in ♞
maybe here, we do have an aesthetic counter to the wallflower non-style of Big Tech: a raging messy semiotic meltdown of radicalizing (if absurdist) meme culture where the only ideological no-go zone is the liberal center. Key here is that most of this activity is happening under the guise of avatars, pseudonyms, and collectively run social media a
... See moreCaroline Busta • The Internet Didn’t Kill Counterculture—you Just Won’t Find It on Instagram
Nadia Asparouhova's book about antimemetics helps explain why we're stuck in these destructive loops. Antimemes are high-impact, low-transmissibility ideas. Compared to traditional memes, they are hard to spread because they're complex, counterintuitive, or culturally taboo.
The attention economy is hostile to antimeme development. It rewards ideas... See more
The attention economy is hostile to antimeme development. It rewards ideas... See more