This article is about GritCult's view of Memes & Memetics. For a general overview, see Memes & Memetics on Wikipedia.
| Memes & Memetics | |
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| “you are witnessing the greatest redistribution of wealth in the form of meme coins take a chance on…” (14 March 2024) | |
| In the archive | |
| Portal | The Frontier |
| Posts | 1,438 |
| Retweets | 2,454 |
| Likes | 27,831 |
| First post | 22 January 2018 |
| Latest post | 23 May 2026 |
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Memes & Memetics is one of GritCult's oldest intellectual interests. By early 2018 he was writing as a student of memetics, the Darwinian study of how ideas spread, and 670 of his 1,438 posts on the subject date from that year. Over the years the meme moved from research object to weapon, from weapon to something like a god, and finally to something he trades.
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The starting point is academic. Memetics, he explained in early 2018, is the study of information and culture based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution, history read through anthropology and evolutionary psychology [1]. A year later he said over 6 years of study had led him there and promoted the MADRU, an open source think tank on memetics and abstraction [2]. The internet was his laboratory. He called it a Cambrian explosion for memes, where culture mutates so fast that 1 year in meat space equals 10 in cyber space, and asked why nobody made Harambe memes any more [3].
Understanding the mechanism meant you could use it. His 2018 shorthand split people in two: NPCs are victims to memes, player characters have control over them [4]. He described future conflict as meme war, the extension of psy ops, and treated the egregore, a group mind, as something you could build on purpose. In March 2020 he ran the experiment in public with a GogginsCult egregore, announcing that it had infected minds and become self sustaining [5]. Gods, corporations and cults all get the same analysis: each, in his telling, is a meme that found enough hosts.
The same theory makes him defensive. If ideas replicate inside their hosts, then you ultimately become what you read, and memetic hazards are real [6]. That logic sits behind his warnings about getting psyop'd on Twitter, his advice to walk in the sun after too many infohazards, and his 2025 claim that there are only two sane modes online: dive head first into cybershamanism, or reject it all for a cabin and a dumbphone. Anything in between, he says, is mid curve.
The memecoin cycle of 2024 brought the old theory back as a trading thesis. Memes are attention, he argued, and anyone who can troll and meme reality can not only predict attention but control it, which he called the ultimate edge [7]. By November he had flattened every category in crypto into one: no altcoins, no utility coins, they are all just memes [8]. It is the 2018 research programme with money attached.
Recurring themes
- memetics as Darwinism for culture
- the internet as a Cambrian explosion
- memes as weapons and egregores
- memetic hazards and mental hygiene
- attention as the real currency
- every coin is a meme
Notable post
The most retweeted GritCult post on the subject, with 329 retweets:
Doing research into Weimar Germany.GRITCULT on X, 14 September 2025
I cannot believe how bad it was. It was 100 years ago and it genuinely reads like it was hell on earth.
No meme can ever come close to the actual depravity and despair that the country went through.
Highly recommend researching it.
Selected posts
The 120 most retweeted of 1,438 posts in the archive about Memes & Memetics. Select a column heading to sort.
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| 14 September 2025 | 329 | 6,117 | Doing research into Weimar Germany. I cannot believe how bad it was. It was 100 years ago and it genuinely reads like it was hell on earth. No meme can ever come close to the actual depravity and despair that the country went through. Highly recommend researching it. | View | |
| 18 October 2022 | 137 | 1,208 | apparently the vaccine can spread through having sex with people who are vaccinated via viral shedding | View | |
| 18 March 2025 | 106 | 1,363 | Mr beast made 455 videos before one went viral. Thats insane. Most people stop after 5-6 Volume is probably the greatest game to do anything in life. If you fail. Keep failing. Keep going. | View | |
| 11 August 2018 | 53 | 223 | broke : we should teach toddlers about potential entropy death of the universe woke: myths are myths bespoke: myths and fables are a memetic emergent phenomena of culture to embed mental models into younger members next in chain, an abstraction of reality, to help guide them | View | |
| 14 March 2024 | 46 | 247 | you are witnessing the greatest redistribution of wealth in the form of meme coins take a chance on yourself. bet more. | ![]() | View |
| 8 April 2022 | 36 | 709 | @nypost Follow me for more memes. Which I spend way too much time posting | View | |
| 20 May 2025 | 36 | 654 | Finally a meme for me. | ![]() | View |
| 17 March 2019 | 33 | 134 | 0/ A short thread examining the evolving nature of violence in the post Internet age. How Memetic evolution on the internet connects with biology. The asymmetric nature of modern violence, and the increasing randomness of said violence. Chaos and mass murders. | ![]() | View |
| 5 September 2023 | 25 | 176 | if you want to be productive be quiet music is a meme that can yes get you in a flow state but it has been shown to be cognitively taxing - why you might burnt out quicker wit it. silence = deep work music = grunt work | ![]() | View |
| 22 February 2018 | 24 | 115 | memetic history of the octopus as a form of political propaganda: Memetics is the study of information and culture based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution, basically history through a anthropology and evolutionary psychology. Why it is significant. | ![]() | View |
| 10 September 2023 | 23 | 1,330 | I have become coffee meme guy. Enjoyer of coffee and memes. | View | |
| 20 December 2022 | 23 | 345 | It’s funny how “normalised” looks maxxing has become. What started out on forums too niche and obscure for even the chans is now going viral on tik tok. The great normie social media. Culture is downstream from autists and loners. The fringe. | View | |
| 29 November 2020 | 23 | 328 | Gonna delete all my memes from my phone and replace with paintings. | View | |
| 26 March 2025 | 22 | 467 | ayo feels like memes have changed forever. | View | |
| 19 March 2025 | 21 | 225 | when it comes to the internet there are two modes you should think in terms of: - dive head first into cybershamanism develop schizophrenic autism. embrace it - reject it all. village by sea, cabin in woods. avoid all memetic hazards. get dumbphone no mid curve middle ground | ![]() | View |
| 22 April 2025 | 21 | 225 | If your philosophy doesn’t help you flourish in life. To enjoy it. To be fruitful. Then what use is the philosophy? It’s useless and you’re better off without that philosohy. Ideas are only good insofar they are useful and helpful to you. Dont get trapped by memetic hazards. | View | |
| 31 August 2018 | 17 | 57 | npc = victims to memes pc = has control over memes | View | |
| 4 April 2019 | 16 | 81 | Martial arts > what is currently taught as "philosophy". Memes borne out of Chaos and conflict are better suited to the human condition. "Plato" was his wrestling name. | ![]() | View |
| 13 March 2023 | 15 | 81 | great tragedy of modern life is that people's identities get wrapped up in their consumption patterns but the great fortune of modern life is that you can totally detatch from consumerism is you choose to. most never consider this option of exiting the mimetic rivalry. | View | |
| 3 November 2019 | 14 | 82 | Biz idea : insurance company to protect against accidental fame via becoming a meme or losing your job via old dragged tweets. (Dm me to get the ball rolling.) | View | |
| 3 April 2024 | 14 | 52 | this is financial advice, this might be your last chance to buy @duhbase under 1m dev has continued to work on the project through multiple 90% drawdowns community is one of the strongest and most organic token distribution is natural too - no insiders. og left curve meme | View | |
| 18 March 2023 | 13 | 117 | the right memes will jailbreak the mind of an NPC | View | |
| 9 November 2022 | 13 | 107 | the memes are coming | View | |
| 17 March 2019 | 12 | 32 | Memes adapted to the current societal make up will continue to get weirder. Weird = novel. Humans want to seek out the novel. If a joke gets repeated too often it is no longer funny. What is truly funny is that the race to the bottom will make all previous events forgotten. | View | |
| 3 December 2025 | 11 | 128 | "The crowd tends to be completely on the 'right' or on the 'left.' An intellectual has the obligation to avoid such dichotomies.” - René Girard father of Mimetic Theory. | View | |
| 7 April 2025 | 10 | 118 | Jokes aside. The crypto downturn shouldn’t really even make you flinch. If you’re really here for the long term. The memes are funny but to be honest if you really believe in the vision of sovereignty and freedom. This is just another day at the office. | View | |
| 23 August 2018 | 10 | 46 | memetic time dilation of a low entropy medium (low entropy = faster iteration, more velocity) the internet was a Cambrian explosion for memes how quick does internet culture evolve why are there no more memes about HARAMBE ? 1 year in meat space = 10 years in cyber space | View | |
| 25 August 2023 | 9 | 123 | Memes become reality. | View | |
| 14 October 2023 | 9 | 89 | Damn. Even 100 years ago they had trad memes. | View | |
| 27 February 2021 | 9 | 39 | DONT STUDY BUSINESS. STUDY CYBERNETICS AND STUDY SYSTEMS THE WORLD IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE A CYBERNETIC ENTITY THROUGH THE INTERNET THE MEMES ARE THE GENES OF THE INTERNET AND CULTURE IS BECOMING ONE ENTITY TOO INTERNET CULTURE | View | |
| 17 December 2024 | 8 | 128 | Looking for Creatives, designers, graphic designers and Fashion designers. Meme experts. Cultural experts. Moodboard curators. Reply with your portfolio | View | |
| 7 April 2024 | 8 | 99 | Memes ARE attention If you’re able to play and understand memes. Being able to troll and meme reality. You can not only predict attention. You can then control attention This is the ultimate edge | ![]() | View |
| 7 January 2019 | 8 | 67 | 1+ meme(s) = mental model 1 mental model = axiom 1+ axiom(s) = lattice frameworks. 1+ fluid framework(s) = Aesthetic meme =>heuristic => mental model => lattice like framework => Aesthetic=> (creation of selection criteria of memes) increasing abstraction & complexity levels | View | |
| 17 March 2019 | 8 | 53 | 133: On evolving nature of violence via technology, biology, memetics. | View | |
| 20 September 2019 | 8 | 37 | I’ve long been interested in TikTok. Don’t Use it myself. But it’s process is a lot more blatant. In another part, the writer outlines how TikTok shows you the evolution of memes slowly. Slow iterative change. Real time behavioural manipulation. | ![]() | View |
| 18 February 2019 | 8 | 35 | Over 6 years of study have lead me to memes, memetics Lead to The MADRU. The MEMETICS AND ABSTRACTION DECENTRALISED RESEARCH UNIT. A open source think tank on memetics and abstraction, @MADResearchUnit, | View | |
| 7 August 2018 | 8 | 31 | concept : memetic entropy | View | |
| 6 February 2019 | 8 | 21 | 1yr update: Since then developed alot. Now Memetic and abstraction research part of a decentralised research unit: @MADResearchUnit Here is a podcast reading of the 1500 word tweet thread. Will be transferring into essay for | View | |
| 19 March 2024 | 7 | 34 | Want a base meme coin that’s early. Has a good team. With a good narrative. Follow @DuhBase Will go to 100m A 50x from here | View | |
| 8 May 2019 | 7 | 32 | Conflict of desires => conflict of identity. The post modern world we live in ? Over exposure to stimuli. Over exposure to desire, over exposure to *potential* identity Solution? Sacrifice, and picking a mimetic model. Both of which are subjective. | View | |
| 18 March 2019 | 7 | 23 | The world is more connected. Easier to share stories / narratives / memes. Humans are Memetic engines. We exchange stories. People will spend all day on twitter and YouTube, reading watching talking. Doing what? Exchanging stories. | View | |
| 26 May 2018 | 7 | 19 | seeking attention is normal animal behaviour. it is as some believe to have stemmed from intersexual competition this a great case in point - post picture showing off "ass-ets" - use meme that gets views(genedrive->memedrive) - get more people to view "assets" - more dopamine | View | |
| 19 August 2023 | 6 | 122 | These Logan Paul memes are getting ridiculous | View | |
| 15 February 2026 | 6 | 110 | The fact that new grads can’t get a job is a symptom of the ai-pocalypse that is coming. A lot of people I’ve been talking to online think they’re safe. 99% of social media will be ai generated Just this last week. My ai written posts have gone viral. And no one’s noticed | View | |
| 29 January 2023 | 6 | 84 | memes can topple governments... | View | |
| 9 March 2024 | 6 | 61 | Please stop shilling me tickers. I have autism. And adhd and schizophrenia. And every other extrrrmly online affliction. This is sensory overload. I cannot think as I am being bombardedd by memes upon memes. May god curse your retched souls. | View | |
| 2 June 2021 | 6 | 50 | BEES MAKE HIVES. MAN MAKES MEMES & MARKETS. | View | |
| 12 February 2024 | 6 | 50 | Generally spectator sports are bad if you believe the meme of supporting random teams for no reason other than tribalism However you can still appreciate the masculine aspect of competition and sportsmanship. Of victory and failure. Winning and losing is everything. | ![]() | View |
| 17 March 2019 | 6 | 49 | In conclusion "Man made horrors beyond comprehension." Is probably the most adept quote to describe the "Post Meme" age. "It WILL get weirder" - @GRITCULT | View | |
| 22 April 2021 | 6 | 45 | Memes have no owners. If you want credit go back to academia. | View | |
| 9 March 2019 | 6 | 42 | lies and illusions are necessary for society, myths, narratives. memes are powerful. | View | |
| 25 August 2021 | 6 | 42 | “Memes don’t spread like viruses” they said …. | View | |
| 3 September 2018 | 6 | 40 | people care more for confirmation bias than they do truth or facts. ive come to realise the horse to water analogy is useful in terms of memetic injection there will be a limit on who you can influence inner entropy barrier plays a role in memetic transference | View | |
| 13 February 2019 | 6 | 40 | Good memes drive out bad memes. | View | |
| 29 September 2019 | 6 | 40 | The black pill is meant to be consumed in order to better fortify your internal memetic immune systems. It’s a vaccine against greater calamities. Think of the stoics who used to practice the thought of visualising the worst possible scenarios and realising “life goes on.” | View | |
| 15 June 2021 | 6 | 36 | THE AESTHETICS OF A SOCIETY ARE IMPORTANT. THEY REINFORCE FOUNDER VALUES. LIES AND ILLUSIONS ARE NECESSARY FOR SOCIETY, MYTHS, NARRATIVES. MEMES ARE POWERFUL. | View | |
| 22 February 2018 | 6 | 26 | octopi have been long used as a meme(conveyer of complex information) in political history, one of the earliest records is 1877, when Frederick W. Rose depicted Russia as a giant octopus lording over Eastern Europe | ![]() | View |
| 3 December 2018 | 6 | 23 | If you are interested in seeing a breakdown of how riots form from emergence, here are two threads from the view of memetics and network systems, from what I saw first hand in 2011 London riots Otherwise known as social contagions. Applicable to the current situation in France | View | |
| 17 March 2019 | 6 | 22 | All this does is create a feed back loop. Mirrors that after each loop accelerate and get weirder. Social media is a time machine. All accelerates into god knows what. Memetic contact points increasing = increasing randomness. | View | |
| 28 February 2022 | 6 | 22 | Don’t really wanna post this but can’t find it on twitter. This is going viral on Chinese social media. | View | |
| 13 July 2018 | 6 | 21 | scaling ideological resolution people => movement => crowd grows meme behind conception of crowd \/res : as meme spreads/scales(memetic reproduction => mutates) =>>resolution degradation a person = think intricately "people" see images note to self: low abstraction cognition | View | |
| 3 August 2018 | 6 | 21 | future : : broke : propagandist, advertiser, signaller, sociologist : woke : memeticist | View | |
| 28 November 2019 | 6 | 21 | Treat knowledge, ideas, memes and thought like food. dont just live off of austere diets, and equally do not live off of McPhilosophy(netflix) variety is the best approach. | View | |
| 12 November 2018 | 6 | 13 | Technological external components have evolved along side humans. We love our tools. It shapes our language. Information is transformed(abstracated) by the medium. Evolution of tech is also evolution of memetic transference. | ![]() | View |
| 14 November 2024 | 5 | 131 | No such thing as a altcoin. Utility coin. Crypto coin or meme coin. They’re all just memes. Every single one is a meme. | View | |
| 19 February 2019 | 5 | 82 | If you believe in memetics, youd know "owning" ideas/memes/concepts is impossible. | View | |
| 8 April 2024 | 5 | 75 | cults -> memes -> tokens. study how information is incubated in cults, & cabals. How this information turns into memes, and then how these memes can turn into money. there is a direct path. get in peoples mind, and theyll get in your pocket. | View | |
| 7 October 2023 | 5 | 67 | I had a great Saturday. Big breakfast. Big hike in countryside during last heatwave of the year. Met some distant family. Then went to a birthday dinner. Came home did some work errands and laughed at memes. Cosy. Gn. | View | |
| 12 November 2023 | 5 | 34 | Both Elon musk and jocko Willink have the same solution to the Middle East. Extreme acts of kindness. It is steeped in blood feuds and a tit for tat mentalities. Break the cycle of mimetic conflict. | ![]() | View |
| 18 January 2019 | 5 | 33 | "The human gaze has a power of conferring value on things; but it makes them cost more too" - Ludwig Wittgenstein. What is "value" here? My interpretation would be in evolutionary lens. Physiological(biological) value & utility. The abstracted meme as a utility of information. | View | |
| 9 February 2021 | 5 | 32 | DON'T GET PSYOP'D ON TWITTER MEMES, EGREGORES AND INFOHAZARDS LOOKING TO HIJACK YOUR MIND AND MAKE IT MINE. | View | |
| 8 August 2018 | 5 | 31 | “To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” ― Leonardo da Vinci art=>derivative of memetics can study history and evolution within wider context | View | |
| 29 March 2024 | 5 | 31 | All I got is a couple memes and a dream. | View | |
| 17 March 2019 | 5 | 30 | We are seeing increasing number of factions of ideologies. This can be in my opinion be attributed to biology by way of tribalism and Memetics. Just like how with twitter you can find people related to you in terms of weirdness. You can also be radicalised by mere proximity. | View | |
| 18 January 2019 | 5 | 29 | What has sunk, may rise. #FAUSTgang egregore. | View | |
| 26 August 2018 | 5 | 28 | memetics : what if *everything* really *IS* a joke, a meme. meta irony ? | View | |
| 17 March 2019 | 5 | 26 | Ofcourse the decentralising of narrative and Memetic warfare is not a new concept. But it is one that everyone is realising. This will just accelerate the race to the bottom. Further fragmenting society. Increasing the number of outliers, fatter fat tails. All due to biology | View | |
| 17 March 2019 | 5 | 25 | It is related to biology because memes need hosts and hosts need utility from memes The more radical the biology. The more likely radical the meme If you are rebelling against society you are most likely not benefitting from the status quo. Or at the very least feel victimosed | View | |
| 17 March 2019 | 5 | 24 | I have been talking about this for months, that rhe combination of Memetic competition and a human drive for novelty will continue to produce increasing weirdness. Novelty seeking means humans get desensitized. This is problem => Memetic contagion | View | |
| 12 September 2018 | 5 | 23 | Part of me thinks fat acceptance is a psyop The other part of me thinks people really are that dumb Hard to control memetic outbreaks | View | |
| 28 August 2018 | 5 | 22 | The more sex involved the more the innovation. Internet payments were first Sex robots will be first Pulp magazines Ar 3D porn Could even argue memetic societal evolutions stemmed from sex such as monogamy or marriage rights or even religion. | View | |
| 25 July 2018 | 5 | 20 | good to see memetic theory being implemented, long predicted also applies to non linear warfare and ideogical scaling see thread on how a protest => riot => revolution "treating violence like an infectious disease has had impressive results" | View | |
| 28 June 2021 | 5 | 19 | Memes are an asset class | View | |
| 7 August 2018 | 5 | 18 | information entropy theory applied to memetics different memes require different inputs some are high entropy, others low high entropy => lower barrier to transmission amongst nodes viral = low entropy => easier spread con : low lifespan candle burns twice as bright.. | View | |
| 3 September 2021 | 5 | 15 | Memes are a psy op. | View | |
| 18 January 2019 | 5 | 14 | meta aesthetics => aesthetics (meta language) => language (meta communication) => communication => memes. lovely how succintly from two different abstraction paths, this model still fits. aesthetic signalling can be applied to tribalism and thus politics | View | |
| 4 October 2018 | 5 | 13 | i like the notion of group think as meme sharing, creating private languages, deep understanding why meeting people you trade memes, and see what ground you share. shared abstractions => brain sync consciousness as a abstraction engine | View | |
| 3 December 2018 | 5 | 13 | 118th thread : On social capital. Meme spread => social capital On cultivating a reputation. Increasingly more important in the hyper connected social media age. | View | |
| 20 March 2024 | 5 | 13 | if you liked $normie... and you want more base memes.... check out $nermie found it under 100k mcap @nermieonbase get in early is my opinion. | View | |
| 24 February 2018 | 5 | 11 | note to self: communication: abstraction: memetic: curse of knowledge : minds eye : language is representation of transfer of meaning : also look into semantic webs -> linear : children do not know that others may not know something they do : language evolving ->meme : windows | View | |
| 20 August 2018 | 5 | 8 | reference points = good concept similar vein to the memepool exposure where youre in a familiar territory within a memetic space culture and tradition memetic heritage new memes => more exposure => more travelling you adapt, expand you never stop adapting more welltraveled | View | |
| 10 July 2018 | 5 | 7 | why you should also read more older books older books => time tested if still relevant then knowledge within is in some regards become antifragile also older problems => older solutions if you know your field well you will see the memetic evolution while reading | View | |
| 24 November 2018 | 5 | 7 | @0dhr4n Master chief filled the same position as the comedian from Watchmen. One is chastised. Other is a national hero. Narrative as memes. | View | |
| 14 August 2018 | 5 | 6 | @gxdarz @MimeticValue @JordanTSack @dopaminendreams mandate of heaven seems like the meme of divine right of kings which emerged in europe in rome too, they used to deify nobles like caesar and augustus notice : laurel wreath on napoleons head to show the divinity and ascension to emporer (from greek gods) | ![]() | View |
| 4 September 2021 | 4 | 73 | Just been kicked out of a groupchat I started lmfao For the second time. Whats sad is that the same people who say they love you can end up hating you because they’re threatened and jealous. Mimetic Envy is real. | View | |
| 19 April 2023 | 4 | 62 | Eth and btc reversing. There is an eclipse happening. Mev bots absolutely killing gas. Fatigue from nft ppl making a meme shitcoin every 2 hours. Random normies historical laggards tryna get in now lol. It’s been a fun ride. But now back to building. | ![]() | View |
| 21 July 2021 | 4 | 48 | broke : we should teach toddlers about potential entropy death of the universe woke: myths are myths bespoke: myths and fables are a memetic emergent phenomena of culture to embed mental models into younger members next in chain, an abstraction of reality, to help guide them | View | |
| 17 March 2019 | 4 | 45 | The meme of a mass murder is before our very own eyes is evolving and adapting to the current nature of our world. Violence as communication. One of the biggest questions of our time is : "Is suppressing Memetic contagion, a violation of free speech?" | View | |
| 11 August 2020 | 4 | 37 | Once you know what you want.... now to MINDFUCK the person you want to answer the question... REMEMBER THE FOLLOWING: A question is a direct meme injection into a persons mind. You HIJACK their mind. A question is akin to MIND-RAPE. | View | |
| 22 December 2022 | 4 | 37 | EVERY CORPORATION IS AN EGREGORE Branding is chaos magic | View | |
| 14 November 2024 | 4 | 35 | You don’t own your memes. You merely look after them for the next generation. | View | |
| 28 October 2018 | 4 | 33 | GRIT CULT memetic research unit. | View | |
| 22 September 2019 | 4 | 33 | I discovered aesthetics via memetics. | View | |
| 2 July 2021 | 4 | 32 | INTERACTING WITH MEMETIC GRAVITY ON SOCIAL MEDIA => WILL INCREASE YOUR GRAVITY INTERACT WITH A HIGHER PROFILE ACCOUNT GET MORE INTERACTIONS THROUGH THEM AS A VECTOR RECIPROCAL PROCESS | View | |
| 17 March 2019 | 4 | 30 | But this new realm of cyber reality is already being fought for. ISIS has been long using the internet in a similar manner. These memes gravitate to those on the edge of society. Psychological warfare has been decentralised and the only way to retaliate is to keep going. | View | |
| 27 May 2021 | 4 | 30 | AESTHETICS : "Dido brought to the Underworld" by Georges Moreau deTours (1848-1901). . . . #inspiration #inspiration #inspirationalquotes #inspirationalblogger #dailyinspirationalquotes #meme #memesdaily #dankmemes #grit #inte… | ![]() | View |
| 3 April 2021 | 4 | 28 | Al ideologies look the same On a long enough time line. Maybe because ideologies are not the most important factor. But rather power is. Power looks the same. And ideologies and memes are subject to power. And power is in large part better understood as “biopower” | View | |
| 15 February 2019 | 4 | 27 | I prefer memes to beliefs. | View | |
| 28 March 2022 | 4 | 27 | Meme department Is quick af | ![]() | View |
| 4 February 2019 | 4 | 26 | From the MADRU, @MADResearchUnit Vaccime :: Memetic inoculation and security patches. a epimeme that selects for other memes, E.g. : Luddite-ism: reject all memes pertaining to advanced technology. | View | |
| 12 March 2019 | 4 | 25 | the internet *is* post scarcity. soon we will be able to stream everything, everything that has utility will be streamed. the internet changed the meaning of the word "ownership". memetics rules the internet, the main rule for survival is sharing. you must give to receive. | View | |
| 20 July 2018 | 4 | 24 | corporeal technology : technology tools that are physical (hammer, hardware, software) more concrete memetic technology : technological tools that are conceptual (religion, governance, language) more abstract | View | |
| 24 January 2020 | 4 | 24 | You can categorise responses. Technology, fashion, economics and memetics all are in the realm of social adoption. They have similar traits in how humans respond to them. Spread of memes is similar to spread of viruses | ![]() | View |
| 4 September 2018 | 4 | 23 | Lindy effect of Memes. as with technologies the longer it has been around, the more the process has been refined the more there is a culture around it. ofcourse newer forms of technology can take its place, but time and tested aspect still holds alot of virtue | View | |
| 6 July 2021 | 4 | 21 | 1+ MEME(S) = MENTAL MODEL 1 MENTAL MODEL = AXIOM 1+ AXIOM(S) = LATTICE FRAMEWORKS. 1+ FLUID FRAMEWORK(S) = AESTHETIC MEME =>HEURISTIC => MENTAL MODEL => LATTICE LIKE FRAMEWORK => AESTHETIC=> (CREATION OF SELECTION CRITERIA OF MEMES) INCREASING ABSTRACTION & COMPLEXITY LEVELS | View | |
| 4 February 2019 | 4 | 19 | anti-vaccime : inoculate against the Wyoming conspiracy meme cc: @C0inAlchemist @coinyeezy @chrismezzz @FluidFluxation @guruvan @nondualrandy @Tron_Dog @CFowTweet @GoreHeyy @Javiezzy @pmullr @_wooko_ @pmullr @_PeterRyan @randi_eitzman @0zukunft0 @alonsovalenciav @gritcultbot | View | |
| 5 May 2019 | 4 | 19 | I see broken people around me. Tethered by guilt, driven by it. They use guilt as a crutch of their rationalisations, of their behaviour. To transcend means to transcend guilt. And in order to transcend guilt you must relinquish morality and the meme of ethics. Guilt is a OS. | View | |
| 3 April 2024 | 4 | 15 | only investing in memes that i find funny or i have seen before alot of fake and forced memes aint gonna make it sadly. also the team behind them matters alot too | View | |
| 22 November 2018 | 4 | 14 | an interesting development in the memetics of genetics (the ideas swirling around) "the idea of a code within a code is a powerful cultural meme that once applied to DNA may not go away so fast. " quite LISPy 😉 i posted a similar paper months back | View | |
| 3 September 2018 | 4 | 13 | so within any group there is variation, naturally you have to tailor your memetic injection in order to target a small subset and then allow for the memes to take hold the seed to sprout and your "memetic injection" to spread this is a simplified explanation of transference | View |
History
GritCult first posted about Memes & Memetics on 22 January 2018, and most recently on 23 May 2026. Across the archive the subject comes up 1,438 times, most often in 2018 (670 posts).
See also
References
- ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (22 February 2018).
Memetics is the study of information and culture based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution
. X. - ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (18 February 2019).
Over 6 years of study have lead me to memes, memetics... A open source think tank on memetics and abstraction
. X. - ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (23 August 2018).
the internet was a Cambrian explosion for memes... 1 year in meat space = 10 years in cyber space
. X. - ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (31 August 2018).
npc = victims to memes pc = has control over memes
. X. - ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (23 March 2020).
GOGGINSCULT EGREGORE WE HAVE INFECTED THEIR MINDS. ITS SELF SUSTAINING.
X. - ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (7 April 2021).
you ultimately become what you read... memetic hazards are real.
X. - ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (7 April 2024).
Memes ARE attention... You can not only predict attention. You can then control attention
. X. - ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (14 November 2024).
They’re all just memes. Every single one is a meme.
X.
Further reading
- Stay Faceless, My Son: A Manifesto, a manifesto by GritCult
- Start a Cult, My Son: A Manifesto, a manifesto by GritCult
- You Should Document More: A Manifesto, a manifesto by GritCult
- “How to go Viral on X w/GRITCULT”, GritCult on Vibe Trading (June 2026)
- “The Connection Between Meta-Modernism, Post-Modernism & Memetics In Web3 Culture By GRITCULT”, GritCult on NewForum (March 2022)
- “Get jacked, build a cult, and get $$$ with Gritcult”, GritCult on Other Life (November 2021)
- “Human Programming With GritCult”, GritCult on High Agency Podcast (March 2021)
- “GRITCULT - High Performance Cultsultant”, GritCult on Break The Rules (March 2021)
- “GRITCULT - What is our Future?”, GritCult on Subversive (February 2021)
External links
- Posts about Memes & Memetics by GRITCULT on X
- Memes & Memetics on Wikipedia
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