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Adam Aleksic's avatar

great piece and so many rabbit holes - I hope you're not actually done with slop.

what is "derivative?" isn't everything inherently remixing old value and adding new value?

for that matter, what are "normal" or "native" behaviors? trends are always partially driven by people trying to capitalize off those trends.

I also think there's a narrow boundary of when a meme becomes "slop." It seems that most trends genuinely start out as innate cultural trends, and then are remixed into slop - where is the line??

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Clementine's avatar

We read Animal Farm at class. And then I came here.

This essay hits like chewing strawberry bits before champagne, hoping to bring out the flavours in it. So far, there's a million

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