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The logic of capitalism is reproduced in online communities as circlejerks, where quantified affirmation supplants monetary profit. Like capitalism, democratized Internet culture is inadequate to its own promise of freedom. Originally published in 2017.
In 2017, at the time of writing, most readers will find it difficult to imagine how different the dynamics of the meme community were in 2014. The sum of every memepage at the time, duplicates or no, was far smaller than a single large memepage active today.
This article focuses on the ironic meme community and the geography of Facebook memepages.
Normies are users with low memetic literacy or fluency. Trash Dove is a normie meme. That might very well change in the future.
How Facebook meme pages briefly became a new artistic medium, pushing ironic memes from curation and shitposting toward meta-irony.