Memetic consensus (as over the meaning of words, or proper names for places/people) is wilder and more intricate than formal consensus
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You can vote all you want on a name for the first decade of the 2000s but there still won’t be a name for it
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Nobody voted on what things are called - people who needed to refer to them just gave them nicknames until one stuck
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Replying to @Tipsycaek @literalbanana
and isnt it established as aughts
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it still sounds stuffy & funny to me, all the terms sound wrong
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like how the word “blog” sounded circa 2001
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