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🗓️ 12 August 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Memeland and 9GAG’s Founder and CEO, Ray Chan discusses the evolution of meme culture and shares his insights on the future of internet culture and digital ownership.
In this episode, we sit down with Ray Chan, Founder and CEO of 9GAG and Memeland, one of the world's largest independent meme-sharing websites and his Web3 venture studio. Ray shares the origin story of 9GAG and offers insights into the evolution of meme culture over the past 16 years. He discusses the intersection of memes with Web3 and NFTs and provides his perspective on the future of internet culture and digital ownership.
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0:49.6 | I think most of the time a brand cannot really create a meme. |
0:53.7 | I mean, they may create some funny content, |
0:55.7 | but whether they can become a meme, as I mentioned, it requires some luck. I would say most of the time, |
1:01.0 | a good brand really good. I like this kind of so-called meme strategies, they respond really fast |
1:06.0 | so that they remake the meme in their own way. I think that's a way that is easier to, I would say, |
1:11.7 | ride on the meme way. |
1:13.6 | Another way that I see is that it didn't expect it that was a meme, |
1:17.3 | but people turn it into a meme, and then they embrace it. |
1:20.1 | But most of the time, I would say that it's really hard for a brand to create a meme from the get-go. |
1:40.0 | Yeah. a meme from the get-go. Hello, Sam. How are you doing? |
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