For some reason, my favorite internet phrase might be “HODL”. The combo of weird memetic humor and idealistic earnest belief in that phrase nicely encapsulates the exact flavor (and beauty!) of internet culture.
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Always felt a bit like hyperstition for me — the idea that by memeing something hard enough, for long enough, we might actually be able to bring it into existence
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Somehow hadn’t heard that term before, going down a rabbit hole to read more
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Seems like Baudrillard got there first https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation …
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