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106: Luke Burgis on Mimetic Desire, Thick vs. Thin Desires & Power of Memes
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The Evolution of Meme Culture
I've followed meme culture from past decades on Reddit. It's not just touches everything right like no matter what industry you're in and you're seeing it now is a lot of like niche Twitter influencers like Alex Sue who does legal memes that didn't exist one or two years ago. I think that's what makes this meme explosion feel like so meaty is like every industry now Right, we like a you be like a recycling expert and start using his memes. But then there's something subjective about it too, right? Like it's kind of in the in what Jack and I worked on together like certain memes like take hold they catch fire They become memetic.
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