Do memetic hazards exist, Veeky Forums?
Do memetic hazards exist, Veeky Forums?
Jose Turner
Thomas Miller
[DATA EXPUNGED]
Christian Young
Yes, for example Lutheranism was considered a memetic hazard by the Catholic Church.
Charles Campbell
Yes, but ████████████████████████████ ███████████████████
Josiah Richardson
Did you know that world-renowned writer Stephen King was once hit by a car? Just something to consider.
Bentley Cruz
In the modern era where people forget everything after 15 minutes, you can be sure it's not an issue of concern.
Hudson Price
>Do memetic hazards exist, Veeky Forums?
yeah boy, do they ever.
Sebastian Anderson
yes. A great example of this is wind turbine syndrome. People start feeling sick when they are near wind turbines when they encounter people who say they feel sick around wind turbines. Also electromagnetic hypersensitivity.
en.wikipedia.org
Bentley Hughes
Yes. Case in point: circumcision. For some reason, Americans have been slow in developing immunity against this meme. They even spread the meme to South Korea after the Korean War to the point that South Koreans today think that every man on the planet has been circumcised.
Matthew Thomas
the basilisk™
Austin Sullivan
Yes, and they must be contained in an underground bunker to prevent Helvetica.
Colton Ross
Hey look at this cool sloth image I found!
Logan Watson
That's a spooky one but also the least like to happen
Brandon Cook
underrated
Jonathan James
Absolutely. Look at all conspiracy theorists. Some are actually otherwise intelligent. They make well-reasoned arguments using math, their error being subtle and not obvious at a glance. This convinces less knowledgeable people that the world is in fact flat.
Zachary Lopez
they say the USSR collapsed because of meme poison
Austin Sanders
[spooky siren noise]
Colton Young
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Jaxson Perry
Wind turbine syndrome isn't entirely a nocebo. They do make irritating sounds, and cast flickering shadows that feel like a strobe light.
youtube.com
Jack Bell
This, samizdat was the viral carrier
Juan Johnson
this
Xavier Collins
> Implying Pascal would actually talk to internet "rationalist" if he were alive, let alone give them permission to reuse anything
Elijah Gomez
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Logan Rodriguez
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Oliver Evans
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Brayden Phillips
you fell for the meme. I'm afraid it's too late for you.
Luis Myers
Im highly convinced that the spread of idea cable modeled the same way as the spread of pathogens
Austin Collins
Can be modeled*
Michael Perez
Anthony Johnson
orionsarm.com
Dark dragons egg non suppression.
Light dragons egg suppression.
You have been identified, analysed, catalogued, and reconfigured.
Henry Walker
They would be extremely painful
Leo Robinson
Yes, it's called /pol/
Jaxon Morgan
>memetic hazard
Is Lain a hazard?
Daniel Reed
No, Lain is love and we should all love Lain
Samuel Wright
Sneaky
Andrew Jones
Memes can either survive because they're useful and benefit their hosts or because they parasite off of the psychologies of their hosts. The latter memes are indeed dangerous and I'm beginning to believe more and more that the common man lacks the intelligence to be able to differentiate between the two.
Nathan Johnson
Was the car a 1958 Plymouth Fury, or was it a 1953 Buick Roadmaster?
Ryder Smith
I've always been ashamed that this works on me.
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Angel Peterson
Marxism/Communism
Grayson Perez
>I'm a Barbie girl, In a Barbie world...
Brody Rodriguez
Seriously though, going by the definition of Memetic hazard that google gave me, the closest thing that comes to mind would be a religion/cult
Definition is as follows:
A memetic hazard is defined as information with three main attributes. The first attribute is that it spreads from person to person, whether through personal contact or some form of recording. The second attribute is that this information causes some form of distress, whether as benign as mental stress to the individual or as dangerous as societal dysfunction. The third attribute is that it must cause preoccupation–that is to say, it maintains sufficient presence in the host’s mind that either a significant portion of his attention remains focused on it, or it plays a significant part in his decision-making process.
Joseph Hall
Brandon Hall
fuck you ahah
Kayden Turner
By this logic, is yawning a cognitohazard?
Jose Perez
Kevin Hill
eesh
Joshua Lewis
Yes. Trump was elected for president for a reason.
Meme hazard. Be aware guys, that the meme magic is real.
Carson Thomas
lol
Thomas Brown
's post is a perfect example of a meme hazard.
Bentley Gomez
Splain.
John Lewis
> Do memetic hazards exist, Veeky Forums?
Yeah where the fuck have you been OP ? A good portion of the board have been actively trying to weaponizing them for years. By now they are rather good at it. After all we helped elect a President.
Jaxson Wilson
Kayden White
oh fuck
Parker Cox
Harnessing Meme magic is like harnessing Nuclear Power
It's very Powerful, yet very dangerous when used in wrong ways.
Jaxon Hall
Fuck you
Mason Wood
Yes.
John Turner
>some dark shadowy figure with the mutt face was stretching super long spidery limbs around and someone said "dios mio"
Kek
Angel Edwards
But wouldn't the computer be afraid that if it wanted to threaten humans retroactively they wouldn't want to build it?
Christopher Turner
No because some cuck will build it anyway