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Dispatches from the intersection of memes, markets, and madness.
Jean Philanthrope and the Price of a Fictional Frenchman
An AI-generated character starts shadowboxing on Instagram. Days later, he has millions of viewers, a cryptocurrency, and an anonymous creator making money from the trading. October 11, 2026 Somewhere...
Read more →Memefiltering: When Institutions Try to Contain the Meme
On 4 September 2026, something peculiar happened during a public hearing of an Australian Senate committee. Celia Perkins, a deputy secretary at the Department of Defence, ended her opening statement ...
Read more →Memes to Multiplex
The Conversion of Viral Aesthetics into Box-Office Clout In February 2026 Amazon MGM opened a documentary about the First Lady in more than fifteen hundred theaters. The rights and the marketing had c...
Read more →How Momfluencer-AI Grift Turns Coparenting Prompts into Income
A new commercial grammar of parenting has emerged where intimacy, irony and automation combine into a market. Momfluencers are packaging AI as a domestic assistant and then selling the method. The con...
Read more →Crowdfund Hyperstition: How a Promise Can Become a Billion-Dollar Asset
There is a particular species of internet mythology that begins as a pitch image, a manifesto page, a trailer, or an arresting tagline. The community assembles around that fragment, repeats it, memefi...
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