Why Do They Call It Oven? began as a series of typos in an Aug. 31, 2013, tweet by @ YashichiDSF. The text reads, “Why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food.” ...

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The question is why we *don’t* think of memes in the same way, as artifacts whose success we can speculate about, and have fun doing so, but cannot really predict.