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Example of Memetics? Anonymous 02/08/16 (Mon) 21:08:45 No.2660

Found something interesting, I think it’s a good example of memetic warfare in the wild. The current mainstream economic narrative is that a collapsing China is causing negative contagion to the U.S markets.

I found these posts on reddit that all show a comparison between clean air over a western allies country and smog over China. The same image has been posted in the past with very similar titles, see below -

Submitted 4 years ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/ntjbz/took_off_from_australia_landed_in_china/

Submitted 3 years ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/15ptce/took_off_in_england_landed_in_china/

Submitted 2 months ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/3v55qv/departing_australia_arriving_in_china/

Submitted 3 hours ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/44rx7t/took_off_from_australia_landed_in_china/

And this is the most interesting one, it’s got the same title but a different image. The image is a comic, the final speech bubble says: “And that 4chan is where the devil makes potty”. Aside from none of it being funny or making sense, you end up reaching this last speech bubble and none of it really making much sense other than, perhaps, to connect this negative feeling (“4chan”, “devil”, “potty”) with the idea of the concept of China.

Submitted 3 hours ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/44rxlo/took_off_from_australia_landed_in_china/

These users have only ever posted this single thing to reddit. i.e if they posted under the same user it would be too easy to trace these posts with similar names over time being pushed and connect some dots. Reddit users are in disarray.

This is the most popular post within the comments and it's top response:

[–]Lufernaal 11 points 3 hours ago

Why does this post and this have the same title?

[–]MouthJob 5 points 3 hours ago

It's fucking confusing, right?

One post even told them:

"Must be some kind of automatic reposting bot that got mixed up."

An automatic bot posted this link in the comments that fortunately does a reverse image search across reddit. The bot identifies spam bots for users:

http://karmadecay.com/results/u6656693

Anyway I think it’s a good example of isolated memetic magic in the wild. Reddit users are good laboratory rats.

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