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fractal marketing

Fractal marketing is the process by which a product or service is promoted through modern electronic media and is subsequently picked up and scattered by potential consumers.

Whereas viral marketing presupposes that a consumer is infected with the intended message, fractal marketing reflects that the consumer modifies the message: it's still part of the snowflake's pattern, just a unique piece of it.
An example of fractal marketing would be Apple's Switch campaign of 2002 and Ellen Feiss's subsequently marketed web identity. They are affiliated, they are part of the same pattern, but this outcome could not be predicted by Apple.
by Olwen Lloyd December 9, 2008
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fandom fractal

A big fanbase that keeps spawning modified and fan-based versions of the original game/concept/show etc. until it reiterates on the modified version and continues even after reaching a saturation point.
The Undertale Fandom has so many fan-based AUs, it's a fandom fractal at this point, why can't they put all that effort into something new and original instead?
by Raided Cluster April 15, 2022
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Fractal

A more exaggerated version of an anal fissure. Fractals are much bigger holes and look much worse. The word is generally used to make fun of people but it can also be used during medical speech, but it is highly unlikely.
A guy who just googled goatse: oh look, a fractal. why did I Google this?
by Hey, dats gay August 20, 2020
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fractal

any of various extremely irregular curves or shapes for which any suitably chosen part is similar in shape to a given larger or smaller part when magnified or reduced to the same size, such as me.
I am a fractal.
by Joho January 29, 2004
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ghetto fractal

the repetition of behavioral patterns within the low income social stratum
Dat girl is ghetto fractalicious. She was pregnant at 13, just like her mom.
by elhousehead April 9, 2009
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fractal shirt

An infinitely wrinkled shirt. Often seen on IT staff who wear a single shirt for days on end, wrinkling if in the process of sleeping in their chairs, under their desks, on the corporate couch, etc.
I pressed the doorbell, and this techie in a fractal shirt and 5 days' worth of beard opened the door, groggily.
by Wohali September 23, 2005
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Fractal graph

When someone puts a term in a sentence that nobody understands but the person behaves as if it's so obvious that everybody understands and not understanding it is super unobvious and should make you feel stupid.
You don't know fractal graph?!

Polu totally fractal graphed that that guy!
by pxxakxa December 28, 2018
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