https://vicboomer.com/tags/meme/ Recent content in Meme on Vic Boomer Hugo nl Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0200 https://vicboomer.com/experiments/what-if-a-meme-could-last-a-million-years/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0200 https://vicboomer.com/experiments/what-if-a-meme-could-last-a-million-years/ <p>A meme lasts about three weeks.</p> <p>Not because anyone deletes it. The file still sits on a server somewhere. The tweet is still there. The image is in someone&rsquo;s camera roll. But the meme itself has evaporated, because a meme was never the file. It was the spot that file held in the attention of a few million people, and the attention has moved on.</p> <p>We are surprisingly bad at preserving our own digital culture. JPEG has existed since 1992. Nobody guarantees it will still be readable a hundred years from now. The servers we trust will eventually be unplugged. The cloud is somebody else&rsquo;s computer, and that computer has a maintenance contract that will one day run out.</p>