#Meme Lifecycle

[mrhairybrit]

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[the-sillies-survivor]

i always get those “what do you see yourself doing as you get older?” questions and tbh i can’t see myself aging. probably cuz im a twink. but that also begs the question, what’s the lifecycle of a twink? like do i just die right when i turn thirty?? just think about it, you’ve never seen an old twink.

i’ve made another infographic. help me out here

#shitpost #memes #funny #lgbt #twink #gay twink #twink lifecycle

[satans-knitwear]

I WISH.

#Seductively lies there and pats insides of tauntaun to entice you into it with me #Thieving memes off insta to give to tumblr is just helping to complete the lifecycle of said memes #This is how im trying to be #Especially rn. Its so cold. I wanna be cosy. #sw memes

[sparkleyiff]

I keep seeing so many people reblog that post that says "idk who needs to hear this but it's time to move the frozen turkey into the fridge" how many turkeys do you have. they never end. I've been seeing this meme for months

#typical tumblr meme lifecycle honestly

[mattsmemes]

#meme #mattsmemes #memes that make you go hmmm #pasta #pasta memes #okay this is cute #lifecycles #so cute #life cycle #pastapasta

[meme-conservation]

Unfortunately my personal acquaintances dedicates to tending to the ecosystem are disappeared under mysterious circumstances: how was The Nature of Humanity Is That Every Once In A While Someone Recreates Homestuck doing again?

Someone Accidentally Invents Homestuck Again

Conservation Status: Least Concern

Classification: Non-native, non-invasive

Someone Accidentally Invents Homestuck Again is a non-native meme originating from the Twitter ecosystem. However, since its introduction to tumblr, the meme is found in abundance in a wide variety of habitats, able to survive practically anywhere in tumblr.

Why is Someone Accidentally Invents Homestuck so prevalent? Experts believe there are two main causes.

First, the meme is able to feed in any environment where anything that resembles Homestuck is available. This includes, notably, anything that resembles a wide variety of other works of fiction in any medium; the feed need not specifically resemble homestuck by any means. Since Homestuck is a large body of work, there is much, both unusual and mundane, that can be considered to replicate it. This effect is extended by the lifecycle of a possibly related meme, Boss Baby Vibes, in which an internet user whose focus is solely on one singular piece of media finds what appear to be references to it everywhere. The tumblr environment is rich with such instances and the Someone Accidentally Invents Homestuck meme thrives.

The second cause is common to several other memes. Like Loss, The Game, or the Rickroll, Someone Accidentally Invents Homestuck is often viewed with hostility by internet users and considered a noxious meme, which paradoxically increases its reproduction rate due to the enthusiasm with which other internet users attempt to combat the efforts to eradicate it.

Experts predict that Homestuck fans will discover some way in which this publication replicates an event from Homestuck.

#meme conservation #least concern #non-native memes #Homestuck #Someone accidentally invents homestuck again #the nature of humanity

[viral-virus-au]

Ok, so we know there's survivors. Now, SMG 3 and 4, what I'm wondering is how stable is the meme lifecycle? Are there corrupted and/or antimemes running around?

"TL;DR: Extremely unstable"

#au #art #drawing #digital art #digital drawing #smg4 #smg4 art #smg4 fanart #smg4 au #smg4 smg3 #smg3 #viral virus au #smg4: viral virus au

[heich0e]

This came up while I was scrolling on insta today and it felt like an inception moment

godddd i hate this post so much i literally deleted it MOMENTS after i posted it and now it's just out there in the world.. my tumblr text post of a screenshot of a tweet which was then screenshotted and posted on twitter and now that screenshot from twitter has made it to IG..... next thing u know meemaw is gonna be sharing it as a minion meme on FB and the lifecycle will be fully complete.

#liv got mail

[brotheralyosha]

Last month, Know Your Meme put together a very excellent report on the origin of memes over the last decade. And, as I wrote last month, while I have a few quibbles with tracking memes specifically by where they originate, which sort of ignores the cross-platform lifecycles of internet trends, I do think Know Your Meme’s research is useful.

Most data on the health or activity of a social network comes down to comparing daily or monthly active users. Which is fair enough. The assumption that I’m sure most companies involved with online advertising have is that an active social network must be a successful one. But what I think the Know Your Meme report illustrates so well is that we’re now currently in a world where we have two different kinds of social platforms: Ones that make new culture and ones that consume that culture. And, according to the report, the two most important platforms for creating new internet culture (which is now just pop culture) are Twitter and TikTok.

In fact, according to Know Your Meme, about 60% of the memes we’ve seen in 2022 were created by Twitter or TikTok. And the three biggest apps behind those two —YouTube, Reddit, and Instagram — all trail far behind, contributing around 10% each. And if these current trends continue, it’s likely that by next year TikTok will outpace Twitter. In fact, we’ve entered a new interesting moment where it’s usually unclear whether people on Twitter are talking about something because it’s on TikTok or if people on TikTok are talking about something because it’s on Twitter. Soon it won’t be. Very shortly, every platform on the internet will be completely downstream of TikTok.

The internet will become a place to talk about what’s being talked about on the app, just in the same way that over the last five yers, most of America’s national conversation was determined by Twitter’s trending topics. But this isn’t the first time this has happened.

Over the years, there have been lots of platforms that have assumed the role of the “the front page of the internet”. Sites like Reddit, Digg, Facebook, 4chan for a brief second, YouTube, Snapchat have all had phases where they felt like they were the main artery of the zeitgeist. Interesting aside — with TikTok’s current ascendence and Meta’s continuing existential crisis, depending on how things shake out over the next couple years, it’s possible that the January 6 Insurrection will be looked back on as the last time Facebook activity mattered irl.

The fact that an app like TikTok is about to become the number one app in America is notable for a few reasons, though. There’s obviously the fact it’s owned by a Chinese company, which seems to be making Silicon Valley feel very uncomfortable in an interesting echo of how every tech company (and government) around the world felt when American platforms were running amok in their backyards. But also TikTok is mechanically different from Facebook or Twitter.

It has easily the most aggressively personalized algorithm we’ve ever seen in a social platform. Its For You Page uses machine learning to react in almost real-time, following signals about you’re watching to offer more or less depending on how you navigate the app. A TikTok video shouldn’t be thought of as one piece content, but as a series of inputs to be analyzed by the platform’s artificial intelligence — the caption, the hashtag, the length of the video, the audio, the filters used, the comments, the accounts the commenters follow, the accounts you follow, etc. All of it creates branches of recommendations to offer you.

And, bucking a trend among apps like Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, it’s becoming easier to search TikTok, not harder. A year ago, while working on this newsletter, if I saw a TikTok video on Twitter or Tumblr and the user ID was cropped off, chances are I wouldn’t be able to ever find it again. Now, I can search some description of most videos and find them pretty quickly.

But for people who do not closely follow TikTok — of which there are still many — culture will continue to feel more and more random and confusing. You can see this in the way TikTok “algospeak” has spread to other platforms, with words like “Unalive” becoming a now very common thing to see within particularly twee pockets of the internet. And readers ask me about inscrutable TikTok trends all the time. Most recently, a reader named George sent me an email last week about a weird and confusing TikTok trend where people were posting videos of “fastest workers”. Here’s a supercut from 2020. I also suspect this is contributing to the death of the influencer, as recently noted by Embedded, and the rise of the influencer-worker. It’s not particularly interesting to just be an influencer on TikTok, but it is interesting to follow someone who does something. Perhaps this is also connected to the “faster workers” trend.

But this creeping feeling that to not “be on TikTok” is to somehow not understand what’s going on anymore is spreading. In fact, I came across a Tumblr post that I thought articulated this idea pretty perfectly.

“Frequently, I’ll see a post here that’s like ‘as a society, we all need to stop engaging in the very common [activity/ behavior/ perspective that I have never once heard about in my life]’ and I’ll feel confused at first because this post will be treating this extremely niche unheard-of topic like it’s universal,” Tumblr user keplercryptids wrote. “And then I remember that I am not on TikTok. So many takes on this site are direct responses to what’s popular on TikTok and I am so happy to live in ignorance tbh.”

The question is, how long will you be able to live in ignorance as more and more of the machinery of our culture becomes branches for TikTok to analyze and optimize around?

#ryan broderick #tiktok #internet #internet culture

[incorrectpuyotris]

Lo and behold, hate reblogs!

Anyway this dude is spouting bullshit based on outdated and biased information that I’ve addressed before, so I won’t get into much of the specifics. Announcement at the end.

is a bad source of info

I cited the original tweet, what the hell else do you want from me?

repeatedly bullied or sexually harassed minors in the fandom

This is just blatantly dishonest and a loaded accusation. The “or” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, equating something that’s only mean to do and something that’s morally reprehensible.

The only reason why people assume that I “sexually harassed minors” is because someone younger whom I met when I was 16 proposed to me first, and people rushed to assume the worst once they found out.

It also bears mentioning the concept of “Romeo and Juliet laws”, laws in some US states that rule that, if two people were both minors when they met and close enough in age (usually 5 years), statutory rape does not apply. It was made to correct this kind of stupidity happening, where two minors started dating and one turned 18 first so they’re called a pedophile.

has forged a leak for Fever1&2 remakes to rile up the fandom against Sega (she ADMITTED to this)

The fact that I edited box art for Puyo Puyo Fever Box (a remastered compilation for Fever, Fever 2, and 15th) has nothing to do with “riling up the fandom against Sega”. The only purpose for that fake leak was just to make a fake leak and see if the fandom wanted that game to be real as much as I did. I always planned to reveal that it was fake after a handful of days.

has harassed the members of Precise Museum and spread false rumors about them

Nope, no idea what this is about.

created hate subreddits entirely dedicated to slandering fandom members she dislikes

What are you on about? You mean the “cringe” subreddit? That was for everyone to post whatever they deem cringy in the fandom, including themselves in self-deprecation. People loved it when they could laugh at themselves sometimes.

has re-spread lore misinformation to further her headcanons while countering the spread of the correct info

This is the direct opposite of what happened. I countered the spread of lore misinformation in order to counter non-canon headcanons about the genders of the characters, in an attempt to further the spread of correct information, even if that correct information is “we don’t know for sure”.

Speaking of spreading correct information, it was I who dug up an unused set of lines within the data files of Puyo Puyo Fever 2 that seem to be a scrapped version of Amitie’s HaraHara cutscene with Klug. You guys verified that I was telling the truth, right?

has slandered meme tumblr accounts and their mods for the “sin” of using questies in their memes

I’ve never called it a “sin” to use obscure characters when a character from a main game fits the bill better. Re-editing the memes with those alternative characters is not “slander”, it’s making a derivative, the natural lifecycle of a meme.

is also a Transmedicalist Terf

Holy contradiction, Batman! It doesn’t help your case when you use buzzwords with no regard to what they actually mean.

A transmedicalist is someone who posits that being transgender is principally a physiological and psychological condition whose symptoms can be managed with the right healthcare. This shouldn’t be considered a bad thing, since it advocates for the right for trans people to get the care and resources they need to lead a better life, and to prevent people who would be harmed by the necessary harsh chemicals from getting harmed by them.

A TERF, however, is someone who doesn’t believe that trans people actually exist. To a TERF, a trans woman is “a trans-identified male”, a man who’s pretending to be a woman. This is incompatible with any view that defines transgender people in any way other than “they aren’t real men/women”.

“A transmedicalist TERF” makes as much sense as “the only choice”; if there aren’t at least two options, there isn’t a choice to make, making it not a choice. It makes as much sense as “a triangular square”; a shape can’t have 3 sides and 4 sides at the same time, nor can it have internal angles that add up to 180° and 360° at the same time.

has harassed minors for being nonbinary

I did no such thing. Just because someone makes fun of some ridiculous statement that happens to be said by a person who considers themself to be nonbinary, it doesn’t mean that said person “harassed” them to be “for being nonbinary”.

Sadly, lots of people still use their race, gender, or other minority status as a “get out of criticism free” card, and interpret any disagreement as being hostility towards their entire identity. If you disagree with the things I say, I won’t even think that you’re racist against Japanese people, sexist against women, nor transphobic against trans women, unless your dissent directly involves my being that minority.

Bonus hate reblog:

What makes you assume that they won’t start now? SEGA just revamped the whole app; what makes you think they won’t voice the cutscenes like in other competing gacha games?

Announcement

Anyway, I’m getting sick and tired of being unfairly gatekept out of the fandom of a game that I grew up with and still care a lot about. But I think it may be time for me to let the trolls win and stop caring about it, if it means I don’t have to be constantly talked over by self-appointed e-vigilantes who barely know how productive I’ve been and how many friends I made in a new community I’ve created for myself. (It’s a certain trivia game that I’ve programmed, written, and voiced myself.)

I’ll no longer be posting to this blog, because it’s impossible to overpower all this hostility in this so-called fandom. If anyone else wants to carry the torch, please DM me at @haleyhalcyon. Mention my name (Mod Klug) and we’ll start discussing.

So long, and thanks for all the dancing bare-legged fish.

—Mod Klug

#puyo puyo #mod klug #not incorrect quotes #discourse

[laikodaemon]

Ok. Wizard. And A Lot Of Things That Aren't Wizards.

See below for easier viewing of each and some context for the whole project.

A week ago, I saw a meme about wizard orbs being wizard eggs.

I thought the concept was fascinating. Wizard Lifecycle was born.

After I shared wizard lifecycle with some friends, one of them asked me what kind of wizard would come from a great rhombic triacontahedron. From this, Thing That Should Not Be was born.

Emboldened by my willingness to create Thing That Should Not Be, more questions kept coming. What about a coin?

This one's my personal favorite of the bunch. Ambitious little creature.

What about a teardrop shaped crystal?

This one is constantly on some type of mission and takes their role very seriously, regardless of what it is.

What about... a table?

Living tables can't use magic. Still related to wizards, though. Like how a human and a dog are both mammals.

Ok, what about witches? How do you get a witch? Well, witches and wizards, while both magic users, are completely unrelated.

Witches are plants.

I'm really happy with how the witch came out. That little stump on their heads never goes away, so the witches wear their hats to cover them. They also have to be regularly pruned. Even a big hat can't cover a whole tree.

Lastly, Knights Is Bugs.

In the flood of questions I got from people on discord and in real life after Wizard Lifecycle, I was forced to come up with Wizard Facts.

Wizards come from enchanted crystal orbs. If you use the wizard egg enchantment on something that's not an orb, it fails... unless it's close to being an orb, in which case you get a wizard that's not quite... right. This is what Thing That Should Not Be is.

Wizards are a type of mage. There's other mages besides wizards, each with different crystal shapes you need and different enchantments required to make them. This is what the coin creature and teardrop creature are.

Living objects use the same crystal as mages do, but the crystal can be in any shape - the living object simply uses it as it is with minor modifications. Living objects are less intelligent than mages.

The first wizard came from an orb enchanted by a time traveling wizard. I refuse to examine the implications of this.

Mages are going extinct because the crystal used to make their orbs is perfect for making bowling balls.

Mages can't talk, but can make weird little noises. Each type of mage has their own way of communicating - Wizards use telepathy (usually communicating with images rather than words), coin creature writes down text, teardrop creature uses magic to parrot the speech of others, and thing that should not be can't communicate at all. Knights also can't talk, as they are bugs. Witches use magic to talk, and by adulthood are quite skilled at it. They're usually a bit quiet, but talk fluently and in their own voices.

Gods exist in this setting. There's gods for pretty much everything, from life and death to chairs and frying pans. Gods are mortal - each time a god dies, their godhood is passed to a random other mortal somewhere in the world. Godhood doesn't really give you any power, just the ability to randomly smite those doing sins against your domain.

Ok I think that's it thank you for reading bye :)

#art #digital art #worldbuilding #wizard #oc

[femgineerasolution]

any tips on how a newbie could start learning about software engineering?

Hi Nonny! Oh gosh, I might go on a bit here. I got into software engineering in a really weird way, basically fell into it, and that was like over a decade ago so a lot of things might have changed! There's a lot of good online resources for getting started in programming and engineering, and the whole maker-space scene is brimming with really cool and interesting people you can learn a lot from. But, beyond the cut you'll find my not particularly well organised thoughts!

Try to pick up a few different programming languages, including different types (like interpretted/scripting, imperative, object-oriented, there's a lot!)

I highly recommend learning Python, it's really useful for a wide range of stuff, I often use it just to automate something that would otherwise be tedious to do

Remember that all languages are a bit different, and will differ in the kinds of problems they're better at solving. No language is a panacae to all problems, so the more languages you know the less time you'll spend hammering a square language into a round hole! I think all languages can teach you something about programming, even if you don't use them so much in the end

For how to learn? I can't direct you to good resources, beyond knowing that there's a lot of good tutorials online, and saying that looking at tutorials is usually better than jumping in the deep end (as you can fall into bad habits that way)

For the engineering side, a good place to start is learning about software lifecycles - how do you go from need to finished solution? Waterfall and V are easy to understand but a bit old-school now, I think agile has really taken over (though is not always implemented well)

Design and requirements capture is so, so important, and so difficult, they're really good things to look into for engineering

I can't find the right thing to call it, but a useful idea is writing tests for your code first, based on the requirements, and then writing the code to make those tests pass. Not always appropriate, but being exposed to that idea helped me change the way I did some things

Version control! Very important, I didn't use to think it was until I made an error in a script that ended up deleting all the code me and two others were working on. Now I use it even for small at-home projects, because it's great to be able to go "oh no, I've broken everything, let's revert back to something that worked". Git is probably the most popular, and github has a really good tutorial (featuring their adorable cat-octopus mascot)

Once you've got the hang of version control, you could try getting involved in some open source stuff, check out https://www.firsttimersonly.com/ for some guidance on that

For me, it was really important to get a degree in this stuff. Like, any job I would have been interested in required a degree. I don't know how much that's changed, but it's worth thinking about. Depending on where you are things like conversion courses and intercolated years (where you take a year out of a degree to do some stuff from a different degree) might be available? And maybe nowadays there might be more companies that will judge you based on a porfolio of previous work instead of just a degree

Final thought, it was a bit of a meme back in uni, but the engineers always used to say that the big different between a software engineer and a computer scientist was that an engineer would actually consider what their code was going to run on. It was a bit mean, but it really hammered in the importance of considering the environment your code will run in

Okay, that was a lot, I'm not sure how clear it was, but I hope it helps!

If anyone wants any other advice about particular stuff, shoot me an ask! Though I received this one in August so I can't guarantee how quickly I'll see it and reply, sorry.

#nonny #software engineering #actual femgineering #long post is long

[lacefuneral]

btw have we gotten to the part in the meme lifecycle where i can say "malewife" without ppl giggling and thinking i'm shitposting? like is that term dead enough yet that i can use it for real and unironically?

i want to be a malewife....

[hankwizard]

not actually a discourse post i just think the lifecycle of meme words esp on tiktok is interesting. tl;dr: Joke Among Niche Group That Everyone Knows Isn't Serious BECOMES Serious When Exposed To Wide Audience. then the white woman appears (influencer with 500k followers you've never heard of makes a sponsored post selling t shirts)

#lizardposting #is this a comic? it's not a comic. #call me beanytuesday the way i [words]

[agentgrange]

What is a Syndeme in reference to MIDCON RED or Delta Green? If you are able to answer without ruining the world building you have going on?

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MITIGATION AND DEFEAT, CONTINENTAL READINESS TRAINING TAPES

100-SERIES, APPENDIX A

ENTRY, SYNDEME-- Used to denote separate classifications of intraspace parasite borne by social transmission.

Expounded Syndeme Theory was pioneered by Tiger Team MADCHIMP by tracking intraspace incursions using outbreak analysis. Syndeme Theory views intraspace incursions as clusters of symptoms and patterns of behavior, prone to preferred transmission vectors and hosts. At the time of it's discovery, MADCHIMP had identified six "primitive" syndemes that could be used to classify and catalog intraspace incursions. MIDCON-REDs sister agencies noted syndeme theory as an unfalsifiable curiosity while failing to see the potential, and shelved future research while MIDCON chose to develop the concept and recatalog intraspace threats to fit syndeme categorization.

Syndeme Theory further developed with the release of Richard Dawkin's "The Selfish Gene" in 1976, at a time [when] MIDCON-RED's sister organizations including MADCHIMP had gone inactive or absorbed into MIDCON. While Dawkins used the concept of memes to describe the process by which mundane ideas evolve and replicate as a social contagion, syndemes could now be understood as the process by which interspace entities propagate and spread in the minds of those afflicted, spark identifiably behavioral symptoms in the host necessary for its development, then reach maturity by manifesting intraspace entities in our physical reality.

Similar to viral strains, syndemes can be broken into subclassifications and variants. The largest taxonomic grouping of syndemes identified by Midcon-Red remains OD URANIDES, which itself is broken into Twelve global-threat level variants created at the point of exposure when Majestic-12 first converged in 1949.

Of important note is that MIDCONs understanding of syndemes and intraspace entities remains theoretical, with many of MIDCON's contemporary sister agencies misunderstanding our commitment to syndeme theory as an overreliance. To understand why we conform to this method when dealing with intraspace entities, consider the following. MIDCON has only been able to document subjective accounts of interaction on the astral plane, or those fleeting moments of contact as they pass through our dimension like the Many-Angled ones of Edwin Abbott's Flatland. Critical questions abound, such as why one syndeme variant of the same classification of URANIDE will develop into a Lam entity while another will develop into a lloigor construct. It is difficult, if not impossible, to assess the true nature of these beings through comprehensive empirical analysis. We can, however, measure them by displacement by cataloging the specific symptoms they generate in those exposed to their influence. Therefore, MIDCON's best strategy is to track and catalog clusters of intraspace incursions by patterns of behavior and transmission vectors rather than individual entities.

For example, OD URANIDES "Rhea" Variant often seeks adolescents as their preferred host. But URANIDES evolutionary niche developed within the relatively isolated world of government Black Science projects far from adolescents. Thus variant Rhea-1-o-Nine evolved to begin its lifecycle as a cognitive meme spread through the medical field-- belief in the Incastagive Learning method of teaching. This intangible idea generates behavioral symptoms where the medical professional will transmit the syndeme to adolescents through tangible abuse and trauma just as the flu is transmitted through physical contact. Once Rhea-1-o-Nine has been passed to adolescents, it will pupate within the host until it matures into an intraspace incursion which may be an invasion vector for the Lam or lloigor plexus.

Over the course of these tapes, you will be given enough examples to assist in determining what classification of URANIDE an intraspace incursion may be based on a close analysis of its specific syndeme. Correctly identifying a syndeme often plays a critical role in tracking its spread, finding its vulnerabilities, and even predicting future incursions.

#MIDCON-RED #delta green #fall of delta green #field notes #training tapes #hope that clears things up #ooc tldr theyre cognitohazards that turn into entities

[the50-person]

At one time in our internet’s history, memes were perhaps regarded as mere playful and inconsequential byproducts of online culture. However, now, it is clear that memes have very real impacts on our world. Things that leave impacts also leave history.

So not only do memes play a clear role in public discourse, but we are now appreciating that the family tree of memes holds memory. Memes are simultaneously a fascinating historical record of digital culture as well as the detritus of the cyber age.

#culture #languages #linguistics