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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I have notes on postverbal human condition, but don’t feel like writing it up as a post. Hmm. Is that ironic or merely consistent.
The number of things for which there are no German words doubles every 18 months.
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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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