{"id":9,"date":"2024-11-23T11:01:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T11:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kekonomics.com\/blog\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2024-11-23T15:25:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T15:25:05","slug":"blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kekonomics.com\/blog\/blog","title":{"rendered":"Recent articles:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-238 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-uncategorized post-with-thumbnail post-with-thumbnail-icon\"><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-198 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-uncategorized post-with-thumbnail post-with-thumbnail-icon\"><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-145 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-uncategorized post-with-thumbnail post-with-thumbnail-icon\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-238 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-uncategorized post-with-thumbnail post-with-thumbnail-icon\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"><figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kekonomics.com\/blog\/archives\/238\" target=\"_self\"  ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kekonomics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5060-720x380.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Crowdfund Hyperstition: How a Promise Can Become a Billion-Dollar Asset\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kekonomics.com\/blog\/archives\/238\" target=\"_self\" >Crowdfund Hyperstition: How a Promise Can Become a Billion-Dollar Asset<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">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, memefies it, and through repeated commitment turns an imagined future into present economic weight. Call this crowdfund hyperstition. It is hyperstition because the fiction gains causal force; it is crowdfund because the medium&hellip;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kekonomics.com\/blog\/archives\/238\">read more<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-198 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-uncategorized post-with-thumbnail post-with-thumbnail-icon\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"><figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kekonomics.com\/blog\/archives\/198\" target=\"_self\"  ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kekonomics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/62d76c70-2aad-11f1-b297-95b0a0a8331e-720x380.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Face Value\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kekonomics.com\/blog\/archives\/198\" target=\"_self\" >Face Value<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Looksmaxxing and the Economics of Self-Memeification This past April a twenty-year-old streamer who goes by Clavicular collapsed during a livestream in Miami and woke up in a hospital bed. He had built his audience by promoting bone smashing, the practice of striking your own face with a hard object in the hope of forcing the jaw into a sharper line, and he had spoken&hellip;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kekonomics.com\/blog\/archives\/198\">read more<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-145 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-uncategorized post-with-thumbnail post-with-thumbnail-icon\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"><figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kekonomics.com\/blog\/archives\/145\" target=\"_self\"  ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kekonomics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/29a6f925-d97c-480b-98d4-8133938cc1b5-720x380.webp\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Kekius Maximus Unleashed\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kekonomics.com\/blog\/archives\/145\" target=\"_self\" >Kekius Maximus Unleashed<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Elon Musk, always full of surprises, transformed his profile on platform X to \u2018Kekius Maximus,\u2019 complete with a Roman-style Pepe the Frog avatar, once again igniting chaos and speculation. His actions mirror the behavior of an archetypal trickster: a figure who breaks rules, sows confusion, and simultaneously fosters transformation. The chain of events began with Musk&#8217;s open defense of the H1B visa program. This&hellip;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kekonomics.com\/blog\/archives\/145\">read more<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kekonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kekonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kekonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kekonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kekonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.kekonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/www.kekonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kekonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}