Anonymous ID: a7b1f5 June 13, 2018, 7:04 p.m. No.1738040   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>8064

Where memes come from

 

http:// 12160.info/page/researchers-studied

 

Researchers at University College London developed a new way to measure how memes are made and spread. What they found won’t surprise anyone who’s peered into the darker parts of the internet in the last few years: The most toxic, yet most effectively spread, memes are first shared on two places, the subreddit r/the_donald and 4chan’s “politically incorrect” forum, called /pol/.

 

The researchers said they studied multiplatform meme ecosystems, with a focus on “fringe and potentially dangerous communities.”

 

 

“Considering the increasing relevance of digital information on world events, our study provides a building block for future cultural anthropology work, as well as for building systems to protect against the dissemination of harmful ideologies,” they added.