The LOLCat-hedral and the Bizarre: A Memescape Manifesto
What’s the link between Rick Astley and funny cat pictures? How about “alpaca sheep” and Anonymous? Is internet culture as a whole fundamentally random, or does an underlying pattern link these phenomena? This talk looks back on 2008 in the meme universe, explores the ecosystem of hardware and software that undergirds internet culture and attempts to use this approach to peek into the trends that will shape web celebrity and culture in the future.
