How do you destroy a meme, Veeky Forums?

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Memes need to be allowed to run their natural course. Eventually, only a select few will be still using them. Round those people up in the night, delete the existence of the meme from history, and keep top surveillance on everyone, punishing those who resurfaces the meme.

Easy.

Three ways, no results guaranteed.
1) Ignore it. This is paradoxical, because only YOU ignoring it does nothing, but if you try to convince others to ignore it, that's acknowledging it, which spreads it.
2) Supplant it. If another meme is, for whatever reason, more memorable and fulfills the same role as the old one, the new meme with overtake it. As long as you are fine with the new meme, this is probably the best course of action. It cannot be forced or overt, however. This could backfire and strengthen the old meme.
3) Feed it. Memes function on a Bell curve. A meme that achieves critical mass will naturally begin to decline in relevance and will be organically replaced by a new one. A party with significant influence and understanding of the meme they want to destroy could conceivably hasten this process.

Meme "Magic" is not magic at all, but a function of humanity's new interconnected cyborg mind. Welcome to the cyberpunk future.

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>a Big Guy porn movie was made not long ago

Sure buddy

You destroy the language

Commercialization of a meme is kind of a sign (or arguably, a cause) of it's decline, though.

>20 dollar paid demo
>the end game is still fucking unfinished mess with one third of its content missing and half of the remaining stuff being recycled 2 or 3 times

Yes, I'm still butthurt.

It's okay user.
I'm butthurt too

Kill everybody who knows of it.

What's the sauce on your pic OP?

Jodorowsky's Dune concept art

There is a fourth method, but its immorality and impracticality make it rarely attempted: kill everyone who is infected by the meme. IIRC Stalin attempted this with religions that went against his ideology.

Memes resonate because they reflect some reality, either real life or the reality in people's heads. After a while, the memes become incestuous or mastrubatory, co-opted by others, or reality itself stops reflecting them. In any sense, they reflect and resonate with some "reality," and are perpetrated by human beings, not machines.

Memes live within the mind, and man uses them as touchstones for meaning, speaking them to others in a common tongue. Change the nature of the world around them, and you change the man, you change the mind, you change the meme.

de saussure plz leave

underrated post

This.

A meme is just thought bacteria (or a thought virus). How do you get rid of bacteria? Remove its niche. Or meme anti-biotics, I don't know.

Nah, it's transitioning through layers of irony beyond your comprehension

That's the adequate comparison for this, so let's play with it. It's interesting how you mention removing its niche, that would force people to focus on other things or even lack the correct language to communicate ideas, but what would a meme anti-biotic be in real life?

The same way all the pre-2009 memes died: introduce them to normal human beings. The thought of someone with an active social life and job liking what they make will cause the original community to experience total ego-death.

>Bane memes
>Dead

Check /tv/ sometime. There's usually a Bane thread or two up at any given time, and every new meme gets Bane-ified.

Bane memeing has figured out the system for not dying: When new memes appear, incorporate them into itself. Instead of choking out and killing the meme, it grants it further strength and longevity.

Memes never die

They simply sleep until they become novel again

>yaoi was an ancient meme that just recently resurfaced

shut it down

Memes are a flat circle.

what did he mean by this?

How about immunization? You inculcate a belief system or educate them in ways that gives the meme no foothold to reproduce, so they don't repeat it.

he knows HE KNOWS!
SHIT IT DOWN DELETE THIS REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Ignore it and don't be a little bitch

Have level 5 in Entropy sphere.

Sounds like dogmatism, which is true in certain religions.
I think I have a new villain

You destroy a meme via establishing an iron fisted information control gestappo state.

Get it going on Facebook. That usually kills em sooner rather than later with a few exceptions.

Big Brother pls

You're wrong. When a meme meets resistance it only grows stronger. The death of memes occur when normies embrace them. At that point it's almost impossible to recover. It has been done though, as is the case with pic related.

Whaaaat is happening in your picture...

is this a spot the difference picture or something? because i'm not seeing it.

Perception -2

The colour of the man's shirt in the background changes from pink to blue but I don't understand its significance.

wololo

Wololo

oh fuck me that's subtle.

You run it into the fucking ground, that's how.

how do you run a meme into the fucking ground, man

asking for a friend

Nah, the meme only gets stronger if the resistance is limp wristed non-gestappo.
All you have to do is gas the memers.

Kill or permanently silence the meme's posters. Banning isn't effective because some memes thrive under the rage of the hotpockets.

Gas the pepes, meme war now?

I think everyone of all political stances can agree with this movement.

I'm as much of a hippy pacifist as ever existed on this earth, and I'd be down with removing Frogposters