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Conversational account. For work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. IKEA builder.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Nov 2019
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      Trying out various oks for feel ok boomer ok nazi ok wokie ok centrist ok millennial ok techie ok incel ok chad damn they all work this is the broad spectrum antibiotic of memes

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Nov 2019
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      The ok * is dismissive-avoidant and maps to the “I’m ok you’re not ok” quadrant in the Thomas Harris model. It’s brilliant because it insincerely maps it to a superficially positive I’m ok you’re ok 👌

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Nov 2019
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      speak ok to power

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Nov 2019
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      ok billionaire ok china

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Nov 2019
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      https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1192832421562970118?s=21 …

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      For once a meme seems to have important content as well and isn’t just spreading because it’s good at spreading. Though it’s good at spreading too. I suspect the meta commentary is 10x higher than actual use of the line in real life, which you’d expect of a good meme. https://twitter.com/BethLynch2020/status/1192522720178774019 …
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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Nov 2019
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      I think Tyler misreads this. While he’s right that Boomers are viewed as a force of nature, ‘Ok Boomer’ signals agency to fellow Ms/Zs rather than impotence. I hear it as, “we can just go around these people or run out the clock on them. They no longer matter. https://twitter.com/tylercowen/status/1192502834803040256 …
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      • @reiver ⊼ (Charles Iliya Krempeaux) Death will not release you Tyler Laprade, CFA Ξthtective Rahul Ramchandani Warren Koch David Grover mesh Grazikyr
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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Nov 2019
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          ok weirding

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Nov 2019
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          the ghost protocol anti-meme https://twitter.com/rektide/status/1193634399016964097?s=21 …

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        4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Nov 2019
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          Venkatesh Rao Retweeted metamitya

          the exit protocol of memeshttps://twitter.com/metamitya/status/1193634166363054080?s=21 …

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          bitcoin: ok fiat https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1193628275941113858 …
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        5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Nov 2019
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          The Rick and Morty line “don’t think about it” is a distant, less hostile cousin that disregards general weirdness rather than a specific antagonist

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        6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Nov 2019
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          ok * is the sound of one meme clapping

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        7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Nov 2019
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          where it doesn’t work is where the target clearly has less power than you, in which case it degenerates to regular contempt rather than ok-to-power like a guy saying “ok metoo” would backfire badly

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        8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Nov 2019
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          I hear a note of humility too as in, “I don’t have the right answer but yours is obviously too simplistic and not even wrong”

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        9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Nov 2019
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          Also done right it breaks identity politics. By acknowledging a label the other party can’t/won’t challenge, you peg the view as saying more about the self-identification than the matter at hand. It boxes up the view in an identity

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        10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Nov 2019
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          meme jail running a meme in an identity bag-tag vm to render it toothless just true-name the assumed context of the adversary’s argument get inside rumplestiltskin’s OODA loop

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        11. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Nov 2019
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          In all cases, the main necessary and almost sufficient condition for ok * to work is that * must have just trotted our a very *-ey derp in an attempt to coerce engagement out of the okayer. If there isn’t a derp move it’s much harder to deploy effectively. Derp momentum judo.

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        12. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Nov 2019
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          True. Give a dog a derp name and hang him. https://twitter.com/polite_netizen/status/1193953564239908864?s=21 …

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