Tag: memes

On making Meme Museum

Last weekend I was just scrolling and had an idle thought. A couple of times I started posts to say something like “I bet somebody could do something with this” but both disappeared mid-draft.* After the second one, I thought maybe I should just do it myself.

people out here trying to be mean to me when i’m just like

🎬 Rescuing Matt Damon is a costly affair

Sure it seems a legit expense...

Memes, Metal Gear Solid, and You

A history of the word 'meme'—from Richard Dawkins coining it in *The Selfish Gene* in 1976 to Advice Dog and the death of shared internet monoculture—and what happens when you take memetics seriously as a theory of culture. Metal Gear Rising's Monsoon delivers the most honest account of how memes shape who we become. The lyric essay resists this process by design.

The Lion’s Claw

If the em dash is the AI’s 'Lion's Claw,' then our messy, unpolished flaws are the only fingerprints we have left to prove we aren’t bots.

Hampster Economics

Pondering how a meme from a quarter-century ago might have gone over in today’s much-more-mature creator economy.

On Memedom

Analyzing the impact of a tweet of mine that went so viral that it nearly broke my phone. Something about sad pepperoni brings out all the retweets.

Despite All My Rage …

Why does it seem like everyone's always angry about everything? We're not sure, but hopefully we can figure it out with some psychology.