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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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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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.