#meme conservation

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Haven’t heard from Bode in a while. How is it doing?

BODE

Classification: Native

Conservation status: Vulnerable

BODE was once a ubiquitous sight on nearly every dashboard. The lush and abundant resource of pictures of fat cats provided ample habitat for the memes. But now, BODE populations are in decline, and conservationists are struggling to understand why.

Habitat loss is a common source of population decline in memes, but fat cat photos remain as common as ever. A more likely explanation is that aging memes often lose sustenance from loss of context. Does the average tumblr user know that someone once had a dream where the new meme was to caption photos of fat cats with BODE and then the dream became reality? Or are they simply tired of it, moving on to newer memes?

Dream memes like BODE often struggle to find a sustainable existence after the initial population boom driven by their absurdity, but others such as There Are Many Benefits To Being A Marine Biologist have continued to find homes, such as in posts about marine biology. Why hasn't BODE become a mainstay of posts about fat cats? Is it the irrelevance of the word to the photo subject? Is it the existence of a character called Bode who dominates tags and search results that would once have been rife with chubby feline photography?

Researchers have not reached a conclusion. But without conservation efforts, the future for BODE does not bode well.

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Goncharov

Conservation status: Least Concern

Classification: non-native, possibly invasive

The Goncharov first appeared in 1973, and in its native habitat of Film Bro Discussions, the meme is not very aggressive and has largely been outcompeted by other species.

However, the meme has spread rapidly upon introduction to the fertile tumblr ecosystem and experts are concerned about the possibility of damage to native meme populations.

It is likely that the meme was introduced to tumblr accidentally, by being tracked in on a traveler's shoe.

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