Internet culture moves in cycles that are faster than any other scene we cover. A sound can go from obscure upload to everywhere to embarrassing in the time it takes a record to press.
What is new is how organised the communities have become. Discord servers run release calendars, fan wikis track every remix and livestreams have replaced the listening party.
Faster Than Pressing
None of this is purely online anymore. The same people who meet in a group chat end up in the same queue outside the same venue, recognising each other by their usernames.
- Shared release calendars
- Fan-made wikis
- Remix contests in group chats
- Livestreamed listening parties
Every meme is an archive of one very specific week.
Trying to explain a meme usually kills it, so we will stop there. If you know, you know. If you do not, you will by next week.
Finally someone said it.