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[–] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 32 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I feel because it's one where people are most creative. I love being surprised by something that turns out to be yet another loss meme. The origin is quite stupid/boring, but it has become such a great versatile meme.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 21 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It must be something to do with the fact that the meme can be boiled down to just this:

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A meme's reproducibility is inversely proportional to the complexity. And the proliferation is proportional to the number of possible permutations of the meme without losing recognisably.

[–] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago

Yes exactly!

These few lines can be represented in so many ways, it hardly gets old.