A meme can say what 10 paragraphs can’t and do it with a wink. It’s not just image + text.
It’s tone, timing, tribe.
That’s why they break the system:
Memes don’t translate cleanly. They don’t cooperate with surveillance. They jam extraction.
They’re the internet’s native encryption.
Interesting thought. But I'd say they are more an efficient *encoding*, not encryption.
That’s true. I guess my example to have better meaning would be:
You see a meme. You laugh. Someone else sees it and shrugs. That’s the power of cultural encoding. What feels simple is, to others, encrypted.
