This is a reply to Memes as Modern Folklore by Amara Osei

Folklore Is Great

Nicholas Blanchard
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Folklorists study how stories, jokes, and beliefs spread through communities, evolving with each retelling. Internet memes are folklore at the speed of light — cultural artifacts that mutate, recombine, and die in cycles measured in days rather than generations.

— Amara Osei

I guess they do, huh?

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