178 How Internet Memes Collide With Real Power
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The episode explores how internet memes influence perceptions of power and authority in society.
Send us Fan Mail Google renaming a Great Lake sounds like a throwaway meme until you realize how often “official reality” now flows through platforms, maps, and viral screenshots. We start with the Lake America joke and then follow the thread into something more revealing: the way online narratives can act like soft power, shaping what people expect governments and corporations to do next. From there we bounce through the week’s whiplash mix of tragedy and culture: the frightening Nepa...
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