Somebody suggest dates Appears to be a missing link between doge and harambe. Could use an era label there.
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According to my teenage son, currently meme lifetime is 4-6 weeks. Anything older than that is ancient history. Black Panther using an eight month old meme was shameful.
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this is why I don't write for teenagers, they mistake subcultural time for historical time
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Spend time on 4ch4n where memes last hours/days.
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Nobody really gives a crap about memes and meme cycles that don’t crossover into mainstream visibility. It’s nice that channers have that local stuff to keep them busy but it ain’t history until it hits the mainstream.
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Not pictured for scope reasons: "Badger Badger Badger", "All Your Base", and "Gonads and Strife", the memetic equivalents of small mammals that ate dinosaur eggs. (And yet further back, ancient beasts like the Line Eater, lurking in the primordial soup that was Usenet.)
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I think the trends move even faster. Memes are already pretty weird. Reddits dankmemes and surrealmemes are pushing the boundaries at light speed. We are approaching total unstructured meme anarchy.pic.twitter.com/cIDupSeORM
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That puts the Meme singularity at about november 2020?
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BettenCourt/West suggest that innovation cycles experience are influenced by power laws. Same for memes? https://medium.com/sfi-30-foundations-frontiers/scaling-the-surprising-mathematics-of-life-and-civilization-49ee18640a8 …pic.twitter.com/ga8ynxgpJL
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