• ThePyroPython@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    It must be something to do with the fact that the meme can be boiled down to just this:

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    A meme’s reproducibility is inversely proportional to the complexity. And the proliferation is proportional to the number of possible permutations of the meme without losing recognisably.