the middle man
the lunch lady
the postal worker
the cashier
the waiter
big city middle men. the storytellers. the middle men tie the whole room together. memes only spread if the middle man chooses to distribute them. a good joke or informative piece of data will go 10x further if you tell it to a middle man, rather than someone who works in a cubicle all day. the middlemen are the gatekeepers between the producer and consumer