Reactjis need better theorizing as a post-verbal media phenomenon. All I can find is lazy listicles like this.https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/culture/2017/6/15/15804082/greatest-reaction-gifs-supa-hot-fire-blinking-white-guy …
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The only one I can label is the Nathan Fillion one. This is the emotion of speechlessness. Now this I’m sure is ironic for my thesis.pic.twitter.com/avGMdUnpkD
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We could either get into an arms race with the memetic environment and try to name everything new, or give up and be postverbal. Like what do you even call this? “Yessss welcome to crazytown”? I can’t think of a single word for it. Maybe neologism like crazyfirmation?pic.twitter.com/hy2ffc2sDx
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What would you guess the median half-life of reactjis is? (i.e. how quickly is, say, vocabulary you could use five or ten years out growing?)
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That would be a good thing to test. This popular one is Robert Redford from 1972 so it has a certain out-of-context timelessness. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/1690781001 …pic.twitter.com/TCf5VR7w8o
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This is the star trek theory
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Spidey sense that gendlin is the best source to jump off. Memes codify the preverbalised (no German word for it) straight into the postverbal via the imagistic. Often interpersonal situational reactionhttps://twitter.com/nosilverv/status/1193671323437981704 …
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Good tack but not the one I’m interested in
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The number of things for which there are no German words doubles every 18 months.
Most of the popular reaction gifs have no emotion-word names.