







Looksmaxxing. Redpilled. Sigma. Mogging. Cope. Seethe. Malding. Goyslop. Gooning. Memes from image boards became cultural foundation for Generation Alpha. …
How we’ll fight the platform war against Big AI - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

How we’ll fight the platform war against Big AI - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.


AI Tools Like Google Gemini Are Tailor Made for Culture War
Google’s new image generator is yet another half-baked AI tool that is practically designed to provoke controversy.

Surely you guys relate to this?
8K votes, 97 comments. 36M subscribers in the memes community. Memes! A way of describing cultural information being shared. An element of a culture…


Links on Status and Culture - January 2024
Read to the end for a longer essay critiquing Ted Gioia's idea of Macro vs. Micro cultures that explains why we get confused about niches and countercultures Personal News I’m spending 2024 writing a new book — a cultural history of the first 25 years of the 21st century.

AI-induced cultural stagnation is here - Fast Company
AI-mediated culture is already being filtered in ways that favor the familiar, the describable, and the conventional.



Scares me so much.
148 votes, 13 comments. 36M subscribers in the memes community. Memes! A way of describing cultural information being shared. An element of a culture…
The Unexpected New Threat to Video Creators - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

The Unbearable Brightness of Seeing
Is “frame architecture” our escape route from the dogma trap of endless culture wars?

Our Overfitted Century
Cultural stagnation is because we're stuck in-distribution


Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same