/lit/ - Literature

>>12913661
>...capital has run away (as the cyberneticians put it), it has escaped. [7] It is no longer controlled by human beings.....

You know, I've been thinking about ant mills and internet memes, and how a chunk of those memes are insular/niche but somehow spread among the mainstream.

>An ant mill is an observed phenomenon in which a group of army ants, which are blind, are separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle. The ants will eventually die of exhaustion.

There's like a bunch of memes that have no right or make sense for them to be passed along in the mainstream somehow they make it out there. Take the boku no pico meme, where you recommend the fucking SHOTA hentai to someone when they ask you for an anime recommendation. I've seen go from 4chan to youtube comments to social media comments even to the point where I heard someone IRL say it. There's like 2 conclusions we can draw from this:
a) People think this is funny and are okay with shota hentai
OR
b) People pass it along because they don't want to be out of the loop and so just pass along whatever meme they come across no matter the content or where it came from.

(I guess you can ignore the "The ants will eventually die of exhaustion." part of the analogy).