What is that thing called where you like randomly start picking-up/doing something that you saw someone do and now its a shared "thing" about you cuz you both do it genuinely
Like when Charlie becomes/starts doing a Griecko thing or Michael Scott imitates Ryan’s ridiculous facial hair
Thats funny someone said it, i almost wanted to include that with my mimetic/mime thing but i wondered if memetic, too, likes to be an existent concept
What is that thing called where you like randomly start picking-up/doing something that you saw someone do and now its a shared “thing” about you cuz you both do it genuinely
Like when Charlie becomes/starts doing a Griecko thing or Michael Scott imitates Ryan’s ridiculous facial hair
This is hands-down the funniest and most on-point joke answer. Well-done sir, I still remember how jolted I was by the uncanniness of it before realizing uour schtick 😂
But does that carry a contrived angle to it? Like when you genuinely love something someone else does or likes…
My favorite example is on Workaholics where their in therapy together and Adam’s like:
I know you’re trying to hurt my feelings right now with that but I LOVE IT and Imma say it all the time now
Maybe a bit intense but I love that idea of simply
I love it and Imma do it ALL THE TIME now
But like, positive and authentic cuz youvlove it and even in the absense of a subject to mirror, like that basketball thing how you play like nobody’s watching or something as the nexus to greatness and fullfillment/self-love
Edit: are there any legs to the mimesis keyword in the context?
“Mirroring” isn’t an insult, or necessarily manipulative. It is literally built in to us humans! Our brains have specific portions dedicated to imitation and empathy called “mirror neurons”.
These neurons help us feel what others around us are feeling. It’s why you feel sad when you see someone else being sad. Or why it can make us smile to see someone else having a great day!
The behavior of mirroring someone is a form of social bonding (“See! I’m like you!”) which is the basis of building human relationships.
Having in-jokes and picking up particular quirks of people around us probably has a special jargon to psychologists.
I simply meant mirroring is more episodic/acute as opposed to someone changing and adopting that change either in perpetuity or for something a bit longer term
Edit: but now I think about it, my examples were more like that whereas the larger idea I was reaching for was that of whatever the root concept of memetic is
I wanna say memetic and—I can’t seem to find the corresponding term memesis, although I wonder if it just reduces down to mimesis which I discussed earlier…
The problem is: mimetic and memetic seem to be distinct to rhe extent that mimetic ≠ memetic, per se
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