Otherwise, the meme-culture would just use the anti-anti-meme to dissolve the anti-meme.
This supposes
1) dissolution is easy enough that it can be used that way
2) That the meme-culture would do that—if the anti-anti-meme doesn’t get people back to the meme, that might not be done.
3) The ability to identify an anti-anti-meme may require taking the anti-meme seriously, or noticing it, which is made difficult by definition:
The meme in a meme-antimeme pair nudges you to dismiss its antimeme as “unimportant” or invisibly ignore it altogether.
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This supposes
1) dissolution is easy enough that it can be used that way
2) That the meme-culture would do that—if the anti-anti-meme doesn’t get people back to the meme, that might not be done.
3) The ability to identify an anti-anti-meme may require taking the anti-meme seriously, or noticing it, which is made difficult by definition: