POD 74: Meme warfare with Don Caldwell of KnowYourMeme.com

Tom Suazo

You should join The Trichocereus Community on Facebook to enjoy all my cactus memes 😅

Alex Dowidchuk

In one of these recent episodes Hamilton mentioned a friend that has a great internet mysteries podcast however I cannot for the life of my find it again, I coulda sworn it was in this episode, at least an extremely recent one. Does anyone know?

Honey-el

Sure, why not! Sometimes. Who knows why people do the stuff they do, though!

Like psychic operations?

Richard Nixon

Two meme warfare examples I heard of recently were folks reposting pic of random unrelated burning cars and barns as successful Russian strikes in UKR. Also a subreddit dedicated to making memes designed to set conservatives against members of the GOP or governmental initiatives proposed by the GOP by couching the memes as outrage posts.

Honey-el

chaos magic and psyops just sayin'

Adam Perkins

Fascinating to hear about investigating the origins of popular memes. Really wild. Very curious how AI is going to impact memes going forward. We are really living in crazy times with both the rise of psychedelic and AI. Just hope that AI doesn't derail the positive attention psychoactive drugs are receiving.

alsayshello

Great pod. Appreciate the non-chemistry topic.

Rasta304

lol I don’t think so. Just google “Harvard douchebag” and it’s the blonde guy at a desk in his dorm. One of the first search results on Google is actually an interview with the Harvard Crimson that they did with him.

Anthony Roman

Is that the “you know I had to do it to em” meme guy?

Not related to the conversation but any Morris-heads in Melbourne Aus? It would be cool to connect.

Anthony Sturgell

Agreed!!

Dasloops

Surprised at all the people a bit disgruntled over meme content here. I appreciate any convos you have and enjoy the non-science as much as the meme-science :) for what it’s worth I believe both memes and psychedelics can give us insight into the workings of the human mind. What goes viral is in a way analogous to common trip hallucinations like seeing god or machine elves. It’s all in the architecture of the brain imo. So keep tripping and memeing, bc it feels good man!

Rasta304

A friend of mine became the guy depicted in the “Harvard douchebag” meme. In actuality he’s a brilliant guy that attended Harvard and likely had a really hard time with that meme circulating so widely. I couldn’t believe it when I saw someone that I *actually knew* become a viral meme! It was surreal and surely must’ve felt degrading after a certain point. At first it was probably all fun n’ games…. But then it went worldwide. The funniest part is that he’s absolutely not a pretentious douchebag.

Keep your opinion to yourself savannah

Anthony Sturgell

Thank you for your work Hamilton!! I really enjoyed our interaction at the convention. I appreciate the content and can't wait to hear what's next!

Love U Hamilton but this ain't it b