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This is really brilliant to see, and I've been surprised for quite a long time that nothing similar exists. I think it's a real shame that few people with interest in memes have interest in building solutions like this that help us engage with them.

People in the 21st century know a lot about the mistakes of the past century that led to much popular culture of the time being lost (especially terminally online people who've watched lots of Youtube documentaries about lost Dr. Who episodes and so on), so it surprises me how little we try and avoid those same mistakes with today's ephemeral pop culture in the form of memes. People like yourself who want to help make the internet's huge corpus of memes tractable are part of the solution in terms of meme archival and cultural memory.

(There's a good meme metadiscussion group on Discord, "The Philosopher's Meme," which you might be interested in joining. People there would be very keen to discuss what you've made.)



I've always been surprised that Reddit hasn't built meme search into its site search.

Memes are a core part of the Reddit experience, yet it's difficult to find something I know I saw before.


Not familiar with Discord, do you have a link to that group?





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