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Why memes are so effective


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2022 Jul 22, 6:32pm   48,404 views  511 comments

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https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-revenge-of-the-shape-rotators

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-revenge-of-the-shape-rotators-735

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-revenge-of-the-shape-rotators-a5e


lying with taut talking points or evocative images is easy. hell, that’s what they’re for.

but memes that lie mostly do not work.

they are not funny or evocative because the analogy fails. it’s code that won’t compile. only that which draws valid comparison sets off the associational informational cascade that leads to the vast enhancements in informational density that make this modality special.

and without that your meme loses its potency.

you can only tell people so much in a brief span.

that’s why they call it an “attention economy.”

the true meme gets you to run code you already have installed.

that’s why it is so powerful and why its effect cumulate.

we are just starting to see the capability of this jump in communication evolution.

it will shake worlds.

and this is a glorious thing.

it skewers everything.

no one is safe.

(not even if they were promised that there would be a monkey to help them)

the speed with which this can pour a spicy glass of “shut the hell up” and provoke real thought by eliciting and evoking analogy is unprecedented as is the sublime, anarchic free market to select and spread the best means of doing so.

once, the powers that be needed fear only a few cartoonists and voices and could easily suppress their spread. now you must fight against the full force of the insight and creativity of the global myriads and the relentless upvote of the informational instantiations which best work to convey meaning as infallibly adjudicated by an audience of billions that play off one another like jazz night at birdland.


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450   Ceffer   2024 Sep 4, 11:03am  

Patrick says

Brilliant! We should all be posting such signs everywhere!

Yeah. They are getting that sneaky suspicion that their plantation masters, beguiling them with the usual fake litanies of reparations, loan forgiveness, and free shit, are just pushing them back to hind tit again as useful titiots. Thus is following the path of the KommieKunt carrot dangler.
463   zzyzzx   2024 Sep 11, 5:23am  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCNhcTLyeh0

Hitler is informed it’s Downfall’s 20th anniversary
465   Patrick   2024 Sep 17, 8:07am  

A meme reader ( https://nitter.poast.org/kombuchakid ) sent me a modified version. I like it:


467   Ceffer   2024 Sep 17, 9:01am  

After hundreds of years of twisting and falsifying history, culture, and world news, memes are the karmic rebound of the internet information age on the Satanic power brokers.
468   Patrick   2024 Sep 18, 9:42am  

https://nitter.poast.org/MikeBenzCyber/status/1729299702313549836#m


@MikeBenzCyber
28 Nov 2023
NATO military intelligence became obsessed with stopping funny online memes that seeded support for populist right-wing political parties in Europe.

The Integrity Initiative leaks had required reading material for new NATO cluster cell recruits to defeat funny online memes



484   WookieMan   2024 Oct 12, 9:27am  

I probably have commented before on this. Oh well. I think memes are annoying. Honestly I think they're childish. I think it's more Idiocracy https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

Written word or printed books worked well forever. If you're too incompetent to get your message across, I guess use memes. I know this will piss some off, but it's basic fact. We've become a dumber society with technology which is the opposite of what it should have been.
485   HeadSet   2024 Oct 12, 5:21pm  

WookieMan says

Oh well. I think memes are annoying. Honestly I think they're childish. I think it's more Idiocracy

Sounds like a subject for a good meme.

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