MEMES, Part 11: I've Heard This Before

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🗓️ 9 December 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we cross-examine memes and their relevance, and look at a surprising hypothesis that draws a through-line from TikTok to much farther back in history –- all the way to the very beginning of human culture. Ultimately, we investigate why memes are such an obsession right now, and whether we should think about them in a completely new way.

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