If you’ve been following this newsletter since the beginning, you will know that I spent several years interviewing Gen Z meme posters from across the political spectrum.
I think art is already back on its way up. Purely anecdotal, but just yesterday I overheard a kid saying to his ma something that roughly translates to; I like paintings but not museums. The mother of course found this very strange, but I think the kid was on to something.
I like memes, but not the platforms. Yet, making a platform that encourages the creation of meaningful art has to be possible. While most content is mostly meant to catch attention. There is also a lot of work made to provoke thought.
I find that, despite their shortcomings, message-boards are currently one of the better places for facilitating memes that provoke thought because there is no algorhitmic incentive to optimize for other things: watch length, likes etc.
On messageboards, people download the pictures that enter their conscious the most, and thus the most "impactful", pictures tend to proliferate. Remembering and posting such a picture later requires more effort than merely pushing a like button, or even worse, affirming by contuing to passively consume content i.e., doomscrolling. Because of this minuscule effort required there is a filter against passive affirmation, against auto-pilot sharing of content that barely enters the persons conscious.
I think art is already back on its way up. Purely anecdotal, but just yesterday I overheard a kid saying to his ma something that roughly translates to; I like paintings but not museums. The mother of course found this very strange, but I think the kid was on to something.
I like memes, but not the platforms. Yet, making a platform that encourages the creation of meaningful art has to be possible. While most content is mostly meant to catch attention. There is also a lot of work made to provoke thought.
I find that, despite their shortcomings, message-boards are currently one of the better places for facilitating memes that provoke thought because there is no algorhitmic incentive to optimize for other things: watch length, likes etc.
On messageboards, people download the pictures that enter their conscious the most, and thus the most "impactful", pictures tend to proliferate. Remembering and posting such a picture later requires more effort than merely pushing a like button, or even worse, affirming by contuing to passively consume content i.e., doomscrolling. Because of this minuscule effort required there is a filter against passive affirmation, against auto-pilot sharing of content that barely enters the persons conscious.
how did you define doxxing in this work?
https://expressiveegg.substack.com/p/literalism-limits