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Anatomy of a Meme

Started by Cramulus, July 24, 2007, 02:10:42 PM

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Triple Zero

http://danzarrella.com/designing-for-contagiousness.html

relevant. this guy researches how memes become viral, and does it using statistics and numbers he gets from analyzing (amongst other things) huge amounts of twitter-data, what gets retweeted etc.
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This is some excellent info. I've definitely got plans* to put this all to good use**...

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Triple Zero

Another really good post by this Dan Zarella guy:

How to Make and Spread Rumors
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Cramulus

zip, both of those articles are  :memnoch:



and that's good

in particular, I think the first one suggests we should turn the default forum skin to MEATSCAPES

Rococo Modem Basilisk

Second one indicates that probably most of our good memebombs aren't contagious -- we might benefit from having better capsids (so that people will pass them along before they 'get' them). It seems to indicate that stuff will generally be spread between two groups who are in agreement in a memeplex, and since memebombs break memeplexes they won't be catchy with their intended audience.


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Reginald Ret

that is a fascinating idea enki.
maybe a memebomb that is very infectuous when not understood in a certain way and memeplex breaking when understood in that way.
that way it will propagate untill everyone receiving it gets 'it'
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There's an example direct from the Principia.
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The best I could do in terms of trying to adapt the memebomb idea to something that will memebomb and *still* be catchy is subversive limericks. I haven't come up with any yet, for the record.


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Sir Bearington

My personal checklist for making the anatomy of a meme is

- Stupidity/Obscurity

- Catchy Name

- Abundant retards with Reddit

Rococo Modem Basilisk

Quote from: Sir Bearington on July 27, 2012, 04:12:49 PM
My personal checklist for making the anatomy of a meme is

- Stupidity/Obscurity

- Catchy Name

- Abundant retards with Reddit

Not all memes are image macros.


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Nephew Twiddleton

The idiot is banned. But quite right. Zombie apocalypse is a meme for example.
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