I'm not a very talented meme maker, but it's a fact that the best military intelligence recognises the power of memes, and I made the mistake of referring to that authority, and so the Memetic Warfare post above was denuded of the images I posted.
Out of all the memes I've written over the last 9 years, only a handful have been passed around enough times, that I've been inadvertently sent my own work.
Usually this is by a well-meaning connection of mine, hoping to red-pill me, which is always a good chuckle.
From time to time, I've also seen my memes passed around social media and that's rewarding when it happens. Usually they've been copied, butchered, nicked, repurposed and sometimes revitalised in exactly the way Richard Dawkins intended, when he mutated the word 'gene' to explain that instead of mutation by random change, and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, they are altered deliberately by human creativity as memes.
Social media is no longer so effective, so I don't mind getting blocked on Facebook. the latest 3 month ban has given me a chance to really look into different platforms, but it's still a great address book.
Losing my twitter account in 2014 was a quite a loss, but it's still the best research tool despite the censorship, and I get to do a lot more of that lately, which is why I'm reasonably upbeat and confident about the future, although there's a lot of work to go and we can't drop our guard.
As I've mentioned, it does surprise me when individual posts on this blog are censored or tampered with. I posted a bunch of my hottest memes in a post from October 2018, and they were removed with a kind of image placeholder left behind as shown above, in case this link is not inviting enough to verify for yourself.
The most annoying interference is when an important post is tampered with, so that there are spelling, grammar or punctuation mistakes. Don't get me wrong, I do make regular mistakes, but they're always the same, such as repetitive use of a word in a paragraph and a few other idiosyncrasies of mine.
Around once a month or so, I'll reread a notable post of mine, and find the kind of errors that are not typical for me at all. They always undermine an important posts' credibility. It's been going on for years and it never happens if I'm just sharing something for shits and giggles.
Which is sometimes the case.
UPDATE - As if the universe is trying to help me, I just came across one of my TV memes being shared on Twitter, just now.
Regrettably the machine is censoring emails to my father, with links to my blog.
Update: Another of my memes spotted on June 1st 2022
