Links tagged with “memes”
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The Wadsworth Constant | Know Your Meme
“… the first 30% of any video can be skipped because it contains no worthwhile or interesting information.” (via Garbage Day)
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The Absurdity is the Point - Galaxy Brain
A decent attempt to try and describe the weirdness of the current state of internet / crypto / meme news. “Personally, it scrambles my brain.” (via Web Curios)
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Nadia Eghbal | The tyranny of ideas
Really good. “Rather than viewing people as agents of change, I think of them as intermediaries, voice boxes for some persistent idea-virus that’s seized upon them and is speaking through their corporeal form.” (via Kicks Condor)
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MemeTracker: tracking news phrases over the web
This is the kind of thing I was trying to do for my futures thesis in 2000, only without the data, resources or know-how. (via @aleksk)
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Doubles Guy | Know Your Meme
I love it when Know Your Meme explains a really specific meme that most of the world is oblivious of, but that people in that niche get really worked up about.
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Waxy.org: Abort, Retry, or EPIC FAIL
On the increasingly annoying “FAIL!” meme. Half my friends on Twitter sound interchangeable these days, as if they must regurgitate this month’s coolest phrases or look like losers.
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Analysis of an artificial meme - nodalpoint.org
Graphs showing how a meme spread through websites.