Severin Matusek

This universalism of meme-feels is almost as resilient as the cheesy “unbreakable” human spirit itself. One can even draw parallels along the late David Lynch’s Transcendental Mediation* chart. Oupi Goupi, again, attests to this. Lakaka’s TikToks transcended language and cultural barriers because beneath all those layers of irony, it tapped into me... See more

Every once in a while I think about the insanity of HBR asking Seinfeld if McKinsey could have made him more efficient

What kind of memetic monsters evolve in a primordial stew made of fractalized identities, multipolar geopolitics and viral media? Conspiracy theories, of course.

Memetic warfare is not new, but it’s beneficial to contextualise with new zeitgeists to identify new tactics of feed control.

But at least one thing has always felt clear to us: If you want to try and do something fun, strange and special on the internet, it helps to owe nothing to anyone but your readers.

Such people have come to be known as the “dissident right,” a loose constellation of artists and strivers clustered around the Bay Area, Miami, and the Lower East Side micro-neighborhood Dimes Square. The milieu was drawn together by a frustration with electoral politics, Covid lockdowns, and the strictures of “wokeness.” Vice signalling has been c... See more