> Making silly memes or offensive jokes gets you about 10x the attention Ironically, the front section of Harper's featuring short tidbits and excerpts from ra

> Making silly memes or offensive jokes gets you about 10x the attention Ironically, the front section of Harper's featuring short tidbits and excerpts from random sources had a social-media-esque ADD vibe to it that made it feel edgy to aspiring and enlightened 20 year-olds. E.g. post 9-11 there was a list of songs banned from the radio ("it's raining men" etc.) sharing a page with a court transcript of a wiretapped conversation between a Mafia don to one of his stooges that wouldn't be out of place in an episode of the Sopranos. Lapham Quarterly also had that vibe -- I seem to remember a tongue-in-cheek visual on how many people Rambo killed in every Rambo movie. Now and then I see some people with thousands of followers on twitter mimic that style to great effect. The main difference is obviously how far down the rabbit hole they went with connecting two bits of random information, e.g being able to juxtapose a Don't Play list for the radio during modern times to a Don't Eat list from an edict in the Roman Empire during some plague.