{"id":1381,"date":"2010-01-24T23:17:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T22:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2010-01-24T23:17:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T22:17:15","slug":"do-internet-memes-ever-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/do-internet-memes-ever-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Do internet memes ever die?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"it's a cow by Gandalfar, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gandalfar\/3904340472\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2573\/3904340472_05d6da7db5.jpg\" alt=\"it's a cow\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While observing 4chan&#8217;s attack on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spar-natecaji.si\/?idC=3\">Spar&#8217;s &#8220;create your shopping bag&#8221; online tool<\/a>, I started to wonder if Internet meme&#8217;s ever die or they&#8217;ll continue to haunt us well into the future. I&#8217;m sure that on the trivial level, we&#8217;ll soon see in Jeopardy question type: &#8220;popular internet meme&#8217;s of 90&#8217;s&#8221;, but there is a different component. Given that a large amount of our current society and youth is influenced by short and not-so-short lived meme&#8217;s &#8211; what are today&#8217;s anthropologists doing to document and conserve this information? Will we need to resurrect it from old Wikipedia dumps, before they get removed for not being notable enough?<\/p>\n<p>One of the notable things happening in this area is that <a href=\"http:\/\/ascii.textfiles.com\/archives\/2083\">Jason Scott has an archive of 10 million 4chan threads<\/a> and while he isn&#8217;t releasing it to the public just yet, I&#8217;m confident that this will happen in a few years time.<\/p>\n<p>I do hope that there is a whole generation of graduate&#8217;s in anthropology that are wondering how to capture all the memes so they can build their careers on top of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While observing 4chan&#8217;s attack on Spar&#8217;s &#8220;create your shopping bag&#8221; online tool, I started to wonder if Internet meme&#8217;s ever die or they&#8217;ll continue to haunt us well into the future. I&#8217;m sure that on the trivial level, we&#8217;ll soon see in Jeopardy question type: &#8220;popular internet meme&#8217;s of 90&#8217;s&#8221;, but there is a different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[692,863,864,866,867,865,928],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","tag-4chan","tag-anthropology","tag-cognition","tag-culture","tag-internet-memes","tag-jason-scott","tag-meme"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1385,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}