for how much the internet was hyped as a driver of visual-first communication it is interesting that in the last few years meme culture seems to have moved back to twitter, a mostly text based medium
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might just be my text brain talking but i feel like image/video memes inherently lack the context carrying capacity of text memes. like u can go viral for sure but the range & depth & versatility seems limited so far
feel like images are good for capturing certain thought structures but u need language to deepen them & rly root in the receiver's mind. thinkin abt how popular recent memes like galaxy brain/drake and even old impact style ones paired images with text, visuals don't stand alone
