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I'd like to see someone who starts a meme really truthfully keep track of it and it's spread. I hope anyone who suspects a new meme starting on reddit, 4chan and the like take note of time and place. Then we can reconstruct the flow of information from one social web site to another and popularity spread etc.

I wish i could come up with a meme I knew would spread so I could do this.... hm.... (reminds me of DARPA red balloon challenge earlier this year. It was to study similar kind of things except with information instead of memes)

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4 points · 7 years ago

Actually yeah, 4chan started it. I was lurking /b/ when I saw the first thread.

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2 points · 7 years ago

Im a new guy, and i swear i saw that here a couple days ago. I also saw the follow up story.

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1 point · 7 years ago · edited 7 years ago

Could be that the guy who posted it on 4Chan or some of the first to see it decided to post it here.

Say what you will, 4 Chan its the mother of a lot of this stuff. Its like an army of monkeys typing away. Every now and again something truly beautiful appears in the soup of mostly random manurer.

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2 points · 7 years ago

4Chan started it, but even if they didn't, we should just be happy they are getting some good publicity.

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4CHAN DID IT!

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