The Rise of memetic Warfare

If you're like most people, you've interacted with a countless number of memes -- screenshots, gifs, classic pop culture moments in film and so on. While society often regards these ephemeral units of information as little more than a passing fad, it turns out memes have enormous potential. They can influence thought and behavior. They can become weapons of war.

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Burt is a pioneer

6 years late. Should have listened. Now we own your children.

How many rare Pepe NFTs are in your portfolio?

I'm hoarding Apu Apustaja NFTs trying to corner the market.

It will be interesting to see in 40 or 50 years which memes were cooked up in a CIA psyop lab.

And we'll all laugh about how crazy they were in the 2010s and how there is no way the deep state acts like that now

Did you listen to that podcast?

I wonder how many people or how much money is being spent overall on that stuff

All I know is that memes I enjoy are entirely organic, and memes I do not enjoy are state sponsored propaganda. Simple as.

Dunno about that. The funniest ones in recent times were during the trump era and the election.

Simple As.

But to be more responsive to your post, it is funny how heavy handed and clumsy the Chinese are when it comes to their online campaigns.

They have a lively domestic internet meme culture, routing around censors and whatnot, but their state sponsored stuff in English is just terrible. They must disqualify their domestic shit posters from state employment.

I feel like memes have lost some power lately. They are deconstructed and recombined as fast as they go viral. Hard to subvert anything when you are subverted almost immediately. What's the last meme that really got the normie's panties in a wad? Clown World? NPC?

maybe we'll see some good ones in the next election.

A meme isn't effective unless it's been called white supremacist by at least 10 journalists.

Kyle memes rustled some major jimmies, here and elsewhere.

yeah those would get you banned faster than telling a journalist to learn to code.

The meme intensity change between 2016 and 2020 was marked, and I thought maybe partially attributed to censorship.

There was an organic decrease in engament though.

Kyle Chad Rittenhouse

The strange part about governments internationally using memes as some kinda subvertive propaganda, the Americans and British still to this day do massive leaflet drops on places like Syria and Afghanistan telling them about the ‘bad guys’.
That’s just bonkers.