People are just really bad at seeing the merits of things they aren’t already in favour of.
I’d consider that an important factor in whether something ends up being an antimeme in a given culture.
In my understanding of the term, the most straightforward definition of antimemecy is “very low cultural infection rate”.
(And implicit in the discussion so far seems to have been a certain expected usefulness of mentioned examples. Maybe we should focus the conversation on things with high expected value and low cultural infection rate / overall prevalence in western culture.)
I’d consider that an important factor in whether something ends up being an antimeme in a given culture.
In my understanding of the term, the most straightforward definition of antimemecy is “very low cultural infection rate”.
(And implicit in the discussion so far seems to have been a certain expected usefulness of mentioned examples. Maybe we should focus the conversation on things with high expected value and low cultural infection rate / overall prevalence in western culture.)