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Old 09-09-2014, 04:52 AM   #10
jeff_wilson
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Default Re: Is video game violence memetic?

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Originally Posted by sir_pudding View Post
At any rate if you read this post, and if it's made of memes, then the memes are replicating at least once as you think them. Maybe they stop there, but there's at least a single replication, if you read them at all.
I don't see that as correct. Your post may carry some memes within its content but that doesn't mean they are necessarily reconstructed as the post is read. It may depend on other memes that the reader does not have. For example, a reader with crap English as a Second Language Skill could plod their way though your post and perhaps even transmit it to another person by sounding out the unknown words and reading it aloud but without themselves comprehending the content and thus failing to host any meme replication.
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