Re:This is not the future
by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @11:01AM
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I don't know if I'm misinterpreting the word "influence", but low-effort internet memes have a lot more cultural impact than a lot of high-effort art. Also there's botnets, which influence political voting behaviour.
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Re:This is not the future
by javier123454321 on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @11:34AM
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> low-effort internet memes have a lot more cultural impact than a lot of high-effort art.
Memes only have impact in aggregate due to emergent properties in a Mcluhanian sense. An individual meme has little to no impact compared to (some) works of art.
said works of art dont on their own really have that impact either.
its the hype oyher people make for them, fairly typically after the artist has died that makes the impact.
stealing the mona lisa is what gave it its impact, rather than than brush strokes