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javier123454321 7 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: This is not the future

> 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.

8note 7 months ago [–]

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

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