I just realized something.

All of these art memes that are going around that ask you to tag people...they're basically Ponzi schemes: you "win" if you can trick people into doing it, and it just spreads from there. No wonder they're EVERYWHERE. Ponzi schemes are tricky like that. Just ask Bernie Madoff, and the economy...

Memes can be almost as bad as chain mail. People have generally figured out chain mail for the most part by now, but memes have the distinction of making people feel "inspired"...that they want to do the meme, as opposed to having to spread the chain mail. And then they litter art sites for a few weeks until most people who were going to do it have done it.

That being said, I'm a bit sad that no one really fell for my pyramid scheme-esque meme (pyramid meme?) that had you make a meme AND tag people to take both memes. It had the benefit of being both a satire of the meme viruses going around, and also it could spread around virally if a few people started doing it themselves. But maybe it's a good thing it didn't spread.

(Also I never want to use that many rhyming words in a row again)