Meme Magic, How Conservatives Are Able To Keep Winning
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🗓️ 15 October 2018
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Meme Magic is real, its how Conservatives Are Able To Keep Winning. It is their not so secret weapon. Memes are meant to be fun and funny. The right is constantly making inside jokes (the latest is the NPC meme) and funny images to spread ideas. It makes hard to swallow political ideas fun and exciting.
For the average person they can participate by iterating and changing memes. This makes jokes constantly evolve and allows ideas to spread even further.
This works because their counter parts on the regressive left constantly restrict and police language. Social justice activists and feminists are known to call things bad or problematic restricting their virality.
This means that so long as conservatives are having fun and inviting people in and the regressive left is angry with people and restricting language, conservative ideas will travel further and be more appetizing to regular folks.
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| 0:00.0 | The latest meme to be sweeping the internet is the NPC meme, NPC stands for non-player character. |
| 0:06.2 | Basically, if you've ever played a video game, you've experienced an interaction with a non-player character. |
| 0:10.7 | There basically any character controlled by the computer and not a human. |
| 0:14.4 | The meme states that there are some people who are not actually in control of themselves, |
| 0:19.6 | they are computer controlled automatons. |
| 0:21.7 | And that's why when you ask them specific questions about politics, they give you canned responses, |
| 0:26.2 | no response or just get angry, because they have a limited set of responses they can give |
| 0:31.2 | as a non-player character. |
| 0:33.2 | Many people on the left are upset, saying it's dehumanizing. |
| 0:36.2 | But at the same time, the left has been calling the right Russian bots for a long time, |
| 0:39.4 | so it's not too different. |
| 0:40.7 | It's actually a bit late if you're to ask me. |
| 0:42.8 | The latest news is that it appears Twitter may be banning many different NPC accounts. |
| 0:48.1 | Basically, people make Twitter accounts with this little meme image, and Twitter is banning lots of them. |
| 0:53.8 | But this got me thinking about the difference between how the left and the right interact on social media, |
| 0:58.8 | and the power of something they call meme magic. |
| 1:02.0 | meme magic is kind of a joke. |
| 1:03.6 | It's the idea of this power that memes actually have, how they can influence things and change things, |
| 1:09.2 | and they call it meme magic as a joke. |
| 1:10.9 | Many people on the left have insinuated that people on the right literally believe memes are magic. |
| 1:16.0 | And this is a good example of the divide. |
| 1:18.8 | People on the right are constantly making jokes. |
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