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@divine_economy Contrarian take: the alt right and crypto are two communities that, politics aside, are extremely online and take seriously the meme economy as a locus of power
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@divine_economy Pepe and Shiba are two of the purest memes (in the sense of freeest signifiers qua canonical semiotics), and thus are pure exercises of memetic power. Not reclamation just appropriation. No political lesson, just a formal one in controlling narratives on algorithmic platforms
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@divine_economy @andrewmarantz I'd love to hear ur take on this, even if you haven't been watching crypto Twitter closely