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Re:A weird epic ramble about Etsy homepages from the middle ... by pjc50 on Saturday July 23, 2022 @04:55AM (#32201593)
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9791247-what-a-shocking-bad...

>> "What a shocking bad hat!' was the phrase that was next in vogue"

-- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds, 1841

Memetic culture is older than you think. That book covers a lot of different types of group behavior that could be called "memes".

Re:A weird epic ramble about Etsy homepages from the middle ... by whoosh3 on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @01:42PM (#32241340)
Gustave Le Bon's The Crowd is another good reference.