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humanity's inside jokes, now running at the speed of light and the depth of a puddle.
means the shared habits, memes, and values that emerge when a society lives half its life through screens.
from the term crept out of media studies in the 1990s as academics scrambled to name what the internet was doing to shared meaning, right as usenet gave way to blogs, then feeds, then whatever this is.
half-lifea meme can die and revive in one week
lingua francaemoji now outpace some alphabets in daily use
exportinternet slang regularly infiltrates dictionaries and boardrooms