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A scientific term. Reddit's Law states three key concepts: 1) A meme can never die, it will always come back into the spotlight either to continue its evolution or else to be used in a crossover meme. Both scenarios often result in the meme being significantly less funny than it originally was, and are rarely successful. Dead memes being brought back usually means this time it dies 10x faster than the first time. 2) For every post, there is an equal and opposite repost. Because a lot of new meme content can start out on Reddit, a new meme being created successfully would mean a surge of this meme across the internet. This surge is known as the Platform Cycle over the whole internet, but also occurs independently across Reddit. As the meme spreads, it will die out in most places except Reddit as stated in the above concept. 3) You must stay on your own subreddit. Posting a Weed Meme on a subreddit for Gun Safety would result in the user responsible being crucified, as the Weed Meme was not posted to r/weed or r/dankmemes.
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