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[โ€“] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It must be something to do with the fact that the meme can be boiled down to just this:

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A meme's reproducibility is inversely proportional to the complexity. And the proliferation is proportional to the number of possible permutations of the meme without losing recognisably.

[โ€“] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Yes exactly!

These few lines can be represented in so many ways, it hardly gets old.