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Egregorewars is a node inside contentinternet polymorphousmythology describing ideological conflicts between egregores, collective thought-forms sustained by groups sharing common beliefs, rituals, or intentions. These egregores compete to control cultural narratives, values, and social interactions. Gorgonwars explicitly exists within egregorewars as conflicts involving "Gorgons," agents lacking genuine subjectivity who compulsively repeat insatiable insecurity inspired vicarious traumatizing hivemindidioms (verbal clichés or symbolic "snakes" that do the thinking for them) that normalize neoliberal subjectivity, reinforce ideological conformity, inhibit dynamic thought and limit human collective potential. "Contentinternet" explicitly exists to sidestep the neoliberal hivemindidioms commodifying emotionality by making people conscious of these hivemindidioms and revealing these snakes in action, explicitly supporting hegelianegirls, faustianegirls, lacanianegirls, and arendtianfeminists in resisting neoliberal, privilege-worshipping gorgon culture by actively engaging devil’s advocates to shape independent subjectivities.
by cyberphunkisms April 10, 2025
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For example, “what doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger” or “it is too much unpaid emotional labor to educate you” are both idioms repeated and reinforced by the hivemind.
For example, “what doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger” or “it is too much unpaid emotional labor to educate you” are both idioms repeated and reinforced by the hivemind.
by cyberphunkisms February 2, 2023
Get the hivemind idiom mug.Platformstrawmanculture is a term within contentinternet describing a phenomenon common in contemporary discourse, particularly online and in mainstream media, where people represent opposing viewpoints through simplified caricatures or distorted portrayals influenced by cognitive biases such as confirmation bias or motivated reasoning. Regardless of intent, whether due to personal advantage or misunderstanding, participants frequently rely on slogans, idioms, and clichés instead of engaging authentically. This behavior perpetuates superficial dialogue, polarized identities, and commodified emotional exchanges, reinforcing epistemic irresponsibility by failing to sincerely engage with differing perspectives. It weakens openness and empathy even as mainstream discourse increasingly promotes emotional intelligence through similarly superficial clichés. Rather than socially enforcing everyone to repeat hivemindidioms, addressing platformstrawmanculture requires intentionally extending the benefit of the doubt toward opposing perspectives, demanding genuine cognitive and emotional effort to understand viewpoints beyond initial disagreements or discomfort.
bro 1: every website has a platformstrawmanculture agenda these days
bro 2: blame internet 2.0, remember when we were free?
bro 2: blame internet 2.0, remember when we were free?
by cyberphunkisms March 25, 2025
Get the platformstrawmanculture mug.Paradisical is a play on parasitic and paradise. A reminder to stretch horizons and avoid comfort zone bias.
I finally decided that the 14 day cruise ship was getting a little paradisical, rerouted my flight ticket and got off early on day 10 to rent a jeep and explore the inland instead.
by cyberphunkisms April 28, 2024
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by cyberphunkisms November 9, 2018
Get the Kayfabe mug.Hivemindidioms are prepackaged thought structures that replace thinking with socially ingrained expressions. They spread through cultural repetition, media reinforcement, institutional narratives, and interpersonal influence. By embedding ideological assumptions within speech, they shape perception and establish or reinforce social constructs through automatic repetition. Their spread is driven by habit, exposure, and social coercion, as individuals conform to group expectations. While they do not always dominate, they compete for influence over thought structures.
Hivemindidioms take many forms. Some enforce moral imperatives, others reduce complexity to binary choices or manifest as political slogans and cultural assumptions. Some use vicarious traumatization to impose a neoliberal scarcity mindset, making individuals believe resources, opportunities, and dignity must always be fought for. These structures are cataloged in the Idiomary Dictionary, which deconstructs their mechanisms and functions. The Collective Devaluation Paradox explains how they reduce cognitive engagement, forcing individuals to compensate for the absence of independent thought.
In GorgonWars, hivemindidioms drive Gorgonification, trapping individuals in prepackaged thought loops. They appear as snakes slithering through discourse, embedding themselves in collective consciousness.
Hivemindidioms take many forms. Some enforce moral imperatives, others reduce complexity to binary choices or manifest as political slogans and cultural assumptions. Some use vicarious traumatization to impose a neoliberal scarcity mindset, making individuals believe resources, opportunities, and dignity must always be fought for. These structures are cataloged in the Idiomary Dictionary, which deconstructs their mechanisms and functions. The Collective Devaluation Paradox explains how they reduce cognitive engagement, forcing individuals to compensate for the absence of independent thought.
In GorgonWars, hivemindidioms drive Gorgonification, trapping individuals in prepackaged thought loops. They appear as snakes slithering through discourse, embedding themselves in collective consciousness.
“Omg it’s 2021 and I have to explain to you what hivemindidioms are?”
“Bro, you cant use hivemindidioms to explain itself!”
“Bro, you cant use hivemindidioms to explain itself!”
by cyberphunkisms February 14, 2025
Get the Hivemindidioms mug.Agoraikon (ἀγοραεικών, agoraeikṓn) is a word within contentinternet. It’s a public figure or entity that reaches icon status thru sustained engagement in collective discourse. An agoraikon is a recognizable yet permeable cultural presence, adapting to engagement rather than being fixed. Its significance emerges thru interaction, shaping & being shaped by public perception.
Agoraikons emerge thru multiple mechanisms. Typecasting & hivemindidioms reinforce recognition & structure engagement. Typecasting links figures to recurring archetypes across narratives. Hivemindidioms frame how an entity is engaged with, influencing interpretation & limiting or expanding discussion. Neither is required for an agoraikon to exist, but both shape how figures gain recognition & sustain presence in contentinternet.
Agoraikons are a tool to understand polymorphousmythology, which is both Jungian methodology & object of study. They show how cultural symbols evolve, interact, & persist across contexts, tracking the fluid relationship between archetypes, collective memory, & meaning formation.
Agoraikons engage as mediated entities in the fogofwar between gorgonwars & egregorewars. Even those aware of their subjectivity may treat eachother as agoraikons—see Dwight Schrute interviewing Walter White, who in polymorphousmythology is also seen as dad from Malcolm in the Middle. Perception shapes engagement regardless of individual awareness.
Agoraikons emerge thru multiple mechanisms. Typecasting & hivemindidioms reinforce recognition & structure engagement. Typecasting links figures to recurring archetypes across narratives. Hivemindidioms frame how an entity is engaged with, influencing interpretation & limiting or expanding discussion. Neither is required for an agoraikon to exist, but both shape how figures gain recognition & sustain presence in contentinternet.
Agoraikons are a tool to understand polymorphousmythology, which is both Jungian methodology & object of study. They show how cultural symbols evolve, interact, & persist across contexts, tracking the fluid relationship between archetypes, collective memory, & meaning formation.
Agoraikons engage as mediated entities in the fogofwar between gorgonwars & egregorewars. Even those aware of their subjectivity may treat eachother as agoraikons—see Dwight Schrute interviewing Walter White, who in polymorphousmythology is also seen as dad from Malcolm in the Middle. Perception shapes engagement regardless of individual awareness.
bro 1: Who is your favorite Agoraikon bro?
bro 2: iuno dude, prolly jim carrey or keanu, what about you?
bro 1: i love taylor swift bro!
bro 2: bro you need to study the contentinternet idiomary better, thats not a good example!
bro 1: why dude?
bro 2: dude theres a specific entry on it, here let me show you, get to that tiny url dot com slash idiomary
bro 2: iuno dude, prolly jim carrey or keanu, what about you?
bro 1: i love taylor swift bro!
bro 2: bro you need to study the contentinternet idiomary better, thats not a good example!
bro 1: why dude?
bro 2: dude theres a specific entry on it, here let me show you, get to that tiny url dot com slash idiomary
by cyberphunkisms February 17, 2025
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