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The really strange thing is that reviews of wolf shirts have been a meme on Reddit for months (years?)... then a few days back I saw it on Digg with something l
by alex_c 17y ago
The really strange thing is that reviews of wolf shirts have been a meme on Reddit for months (years?)... then a few days back I saw it on Digg with something like 6000 diggs. As far as I was concerned it was an old and tired meme which had reached its peak who knows how long ago, but it looks like it somehow got revived and amplified.
- rgrieselhuber 17y agoThere are probably two cycles to memes - one for the tech crowd / early adopters and one for everybody else. I frequently hear about stuff from my non-geek friends that I had heard about 1-2 years earlier.
- metachor 17y agoMy own anecdotal evidence agrees with this. LOL cats, FAIL, Rick Roll, Xzibit's catch phrase; this list goes on. It seems most of these memes originate or are popularized on relatively geeky web forums (4Chan, Reddit, eBaum's, SA, etc), where they propagate among those forums' readers -- the sort of geeky people that spend their time on web forums. After a while a meme reaches critical mass and spills over into popular culture, and the geeky early-adopters have to listen to the meme they helped spread all over again.
- mynameishere 17y agoI don't think it began with reddit or digg. I do know that I had an irrational degree of anger when the real deal "born to roam" wasn't mentioned in these stupid MSM pieces http://www.birkoph.com/Wolf_tshirt.htm http://www.birkoph.com/Wolf_tshirt.htm "Born to Bone" more like it.
- sho 17y agoOh I agree. It's like when you hear some teenager saying how much they love the new, lame remix of some old song. Current offender: "Right Round" by Flo Rida.