How Internet Ideas Work

[The Jedi Master]

This video is an absolute must-watch for anyone who has argued on the internet until their face was blue.

[Streetwind]

Bless you!

[RainDreamer]

I am actually planning to write a paper about this topic for my communication class!

I was thinking about "the survival of the most likeable" concept to explaining how the "thought germ" (to borrow the person in the vid's word, since he infected me now) evolve. But seems like, there is also "survival of the angriest" in play here.

Thanks for infecting me with this video. I gotta do some more research.

[Norpo]

Or, summed up simply:

Title text: What do you want me to do? LEAVE? Then they'll keep being wrong!

EDIT: yadda yadda xkcd comic legal attribution blah blah Randall Munroe

[RAINCRAFTER]

I've become infected.

(You know that some infections have positive effects but are shined out by the baddies in Germ world, right? Therefore, this should be the same.)

[vger]

Sadly, knowing things like this, just makes you an enemy of BOTH sides of the argument.

[lajoswinkler]

And that's, children, what memes are. Memes are not silly photos with words on them. Memes are viral ideas.

[vger]

And that's, children, what memes are. Memes are not silly photos with words on them. Memes are viral ideas.

I think we can form a coherent theory that cats are sentient, and are using the Internet to turn us into submissive subjects.

[Special Agent Sigvan]

"A cat photo with the right caption is the super-flu"

Great video though, someone should try and make a viral super-flu. I'm sure it's already happened, but someone should again for science.

I wonder how long it'll take to spread and how long it'll remain in "plague" status.

[WinkAllKerb'']

This video is an absolute must-watch for anyone who has argued on the internet ...

yup another idea in the same spirit ; )