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[VirianLexicon]:[infectionstrategy]

!!!Infection Strategy
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Any [memetic] strategy which encourages infection of a host. Jokes encourage infection by being humorous, tunes by evoking various emotions, slogans and catch-phrases by being terse and continuously repeated. Common infection strategies are "Villain vs. victim", "Fear of Death", and "Sense of Community". In a [meme-complex], the [bait] [co-meme] is often central to the [infection strategy|infectionstrategy]. (GMG)
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See also [replication strategy|replicationstrategy]; [mimicry].
