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I believe that internet culture influences real culture much more than the other way around. This is quite hard to prove, but I often see an idea start to come up in real-life conversations where I’ve seen it appear on Twitter a few weeks before. I’m not sure if ordinary people don’t realise this (that their ideas are workshopped and take root online), or if they just see it as that important.Furthermore, the internet is still quite meritocratic. Often one random blogger makes something their...