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The study of how digital communities form around the analysis of other digital communities, creating a meta-ecosystem of commentary, criticism, and chronic online behavior. It examines subreddits dedicated to dissecting other subreddits, YouTube channels that react to YouTube reactions, and Twitter threads that analyze Twitter discourse. It's the field that explains why the most popular content on the internet is often content about other content, and why the comment section has become its own genre of entertainment, separate from the thing being commented on.
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