{"id":51293,"date":"2025-04-26T05:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T05:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/51293\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T05:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T05:13:09","slug":"the-og-meme-lord-who-understood-the-internet-before-it-existed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/51293\/","title":{"rendered":"The OG meme lord who understood the internet before it existed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1. \u201cAll the world\u2019s a stage\u201d \u2013 The Age of the Online Persona<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Long before we had perfectly curated Instagram feeds and TikTok trends, Shakespeare nailed it: we\u2019re all just actors in this grand play. Whether we\u2019re chatting in group texts or sharing Stories, we\u2019re constantly putting on a show for our online audience, just like Jaques pointed out in As You Like It.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. \u201cBrevity is the soul of wit\u201d \u2013 Tweets Before Twitter<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Shakespeare had a knack for packing a punch with just a few words. His clever one-liners, especially in Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing, could easily compete with today\u2019s best tweets. If he were around now, he\u2019d definitely have that blue checkmark and a massive following. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1. \u201cAll the world\u2019s a stage\u201d \u2013 The Age of the Online Persona Long before we had perfectly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3161],"tags":[3082,22252,27502,182,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-51293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-shakespeare","10":"tag-shakespeare-social-media","11":"tag-social-media","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114402558173435711","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}