Metamime

Live stream performance art that emulates the glitched movements of an npc or player in the meta verse.

Look at that metamime larping like a GTA gangster on a mission

by Metamime November 28, 2022

Metameme

An unstated conclusion.

A counterpart to enthymeme: an unstated premise.

My phone's battery is almost dead. I have a meeting in an hour.
The metameme is the unstated conclusion that I should find a charger for my phone.

Sometimes the conclusion is an unpleasant or unflattering conclusion that the speaker doesn't wish to convey directly:
You've lost weight! You look so much better now.
Metameme: you were overweight and unattractive before.

by TownWombat April 22, 2024

Metamemetic Theory

The study of the higher-order rules and conditions that govern which memes spread and how meme ecosystems evolve. It doesn't look at individual memes, but at the "physics" of the memetic environment: platform algorithms that boost outrage, cognitive biases that make us susceptible to certain ideas, network structures that accelerate virality, and the evolution of anti-memes (ideas designed to suppress other ideas). It’s the ecology and epidemiology of thought itself.

Example: A Metamemetic Theory analysis of a political election wouldn't focus on a specific campaign slogan (a meme). Instead, it would model how the algorithmic amplification of anger on social media creates a fitness landscape where simplistic, divisive memes outperform complex, nuanced ones, systematically shaping the entire informational environment in which the election occurs.

by Nammugal February 5, 2026

Metamaterialism

A sophisticated form of materialism that has incorporated its critics—a materialism that acknowledges the reality of consciousness, meaning, and experience while insisting they are ultimately material in some expanded sense. Metamaterialism doesn't reduce mind to neurons; it expands matter to include mind. It suggests that matter may be more complex, more strange, more capable than traditional materialism allowed—perhaps matter itself has experiential properties, or gives rise to genuinely novel phenomena that are still material in origin if not in character. It's materialism that has learned from its critics and grown.

Metamaterialism "I used to be a simple materialist: everything is particles. Then I studied consciousness and realized particles don't explain experience. Now I'm a Metamaterialist: matter is richer than we thought, capable of generating mind, meaning, maybe even spirit. Not abandoning materialism—expanding it."

by Dumu The Void February 24, 2026