memes (and stuff about memes)

Memes may dominate how we communicate online, but in the last few years, their rapid spread has also necessitated the birth of a parallel, shadow ecosystem, where the best ideas are paradoxically harder to find. Not everyone wants their ideas to go viral anymore. One friend writes a newsletter that he asks people not to share around. Another publis... See more

The meme economy will become real. - Meme creators will make NFTs - Timestamps give proof-of-first - Memegen partially goes on-chain - Memetic spread is more traceable - Memers become millionaires - Risky art becomes uncensorable & monetizable - Art moves outside regime control

if people are so "exhausted" by the predictability and volume of meme culture, NFTs can be seen as a way of "professionalizing" memes and liberating ordinary people from having to care and participate