@tumblrleft let’s talk about something serious
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the commodification of memes
Everything in our society is commodified. When stuff like food and other basic necessities is commodified, it’s impossible for anything not to be. Just like the majority of the music industry, the system takes what we use to express our frustrations with the system to feed and support the system further.
honestly the commodification of internet memes is like the final frontier for late capitalism because memes no longer last more than a few years they last a few days, months at most, before it’s featured on Ellen and they’re selling it on t-shirts. corporations can’t fucking keep up with the constant go-go-go of the internet and the rapidity of technological growth and its simultaneously amusing and harrowing of the times we live in
Well like, social media only ‘works’ financially by commodifying subcultures, by turning cultural capital into real capital. Thus the commodification of memes is an absolute necessity for the owners of social media websites.
It’s an outgrowth of capitalism’s eternal drive to accumulate more profit, and more market, the increasing speed of the commodification of a trend, which leads to the death of the trend is just an indication of capital’s eternal hunger.
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 