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user-inactivated  ·  2961 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: [48 HOURS] On the .gif, its power, and its market value

    eventually reached an audience outside of the native population that made the grammar efficient

Are you saying they became a more efficient language when they spread beyond 4chan and adjacent communities? Because it seems to me it was the opposite. They were efficient because everyone reading them shared a lot of context, so the simplistic comics didn't have to provide much. When they spread and became bad comics it was because their readers didn't have that shared context, so the comics either needed to provide it or be incoherent.