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What makes a meme take off? The 3 rules of virality It’s hard to know what the first “viral” idea was. Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism certainly spread quickly, as did capitalism, the scientific method, and the nation-state. But these aren’t “viral” ideas in the sense that most people would understand them. To be viral is tied t