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Collecting and the age of memeing
- mrob 8y agoThis seems strange to me. In Western culture, I've always seen the higher quality copies valued more. Value of cultural artifacts like this usually depends on rarity, and the degraded copies are more common, so why would they be more valuable?
- a_t48 8y agoLook up “Deep Frying” - this is totally a thing in Western net culture, too.
- saagarjha 8y agoDeep frying is satirical, as far as I'm aware.
- eat_veggies 8y agoDeep fried memes are satirical ("ironic") but they were created as a response to memes that were getting fried naturally through screenshotting and transcoding/compression
- sincerely 8y agoNitpicking here but I think the "deep fried meme" phenomenon (as opposed to just images naturally becoming lower quality) is a result of the screenshot -> instagram filter pipeline.
- hi5eyes 8y agotheres bots/sites that df memes most people arent adding filters to memes to post on ig/twitter/sc
- sincerely 8y agoI agree that thats how they're made now but the phenomenon started as people parodying memes that were screenshotted and instagram filtered with structure -> 100 and sepia -> 100 etc
- hi5eyes 8y agooh yeah I remember when ig first came out and people were cross posting to twitter and Facebook/reposting/compressing the memes even more
- a_t48 8y agoA lot of memes have an aspect of satire.
- tonylinn80 8y agoThe target is making them look older, because images created long time ago usually have less quality and resolution. It is similar to antique furnitures being made to look old and crappy
- pantalaimon 8y ago> because images created long time ago usually have less quality and resolution. It's more because of this https://xkcd.com/1683/ https://xkcd.com/1683/
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoI'm not sure I'd take anything in the article at face value.
- TheAceOfHearts 8y agoThis comment brought the following quote to mind: "The fake is of far greater value. In its deliberate attempt to be real, it's more real than the real thing." Imagine a painting which is locked away from everyone in order to help preserve it. Someone then shows up and creates a replica, and they share it with the world. Which one is more valuable?
- krustyburger 8y agoThis is a silly article.
- ayy_lmao 8y ago10/10 would trade my rare Pepe and subtle merchants for some dank Chinese memes.
- praptak 8y agoIt's a tough market, with strong evidence that it is being manipulated: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rdhNkv4ryuM https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rdhNkv4ryuM
- PhasmaFelis 8y ago> Chen Mei, 25, from Jiangsu province, trawls Taobao, an online shopping site, for antique memes. She explains that the selling price of memes is really cheap, less than 4 yuan ($0.6) for over 500 images, or around 9 yuan for 4 gigabytes of memes. Most of the article sounds like someone took https://www.reddit.com/r/MemeEconomy/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MemeEconomy/ seriously. Someone's getting trolled here, I'm just not sure if it's the author or us.
- BurritoAlPastor 8y agoThis is a little tangental, but I was surprised to see Hearthstone rendered as “Hearth Stone: Heroes of Warcraft”. Does anybody know if Hearthstone is localized phonetically or semantically in Chinese markets? Was this a round-trip translation quirk, or did they re-localize the game name and not check it against the English name, or what?
- kristianov 8y agoHearth（炉）stone（石） is localized semantically.
- CPLX 8y agoThis entire article is deadpan troll. A mildly amusing one in fairness.
- stonewhite 8y agoBut apparently people really did need moar jpeg.