{"id":220686,"date":"2025-08-22T08:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/self-reinforcing-cascades-how-ideas-beliefs-and-innovations-spread-in-the-digital-age"},"modified":"2025-08-22T08:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:33:07","slug":"self-reinforcing-cascades-how-ideas-beliefs-and-innovations-spread-in-the-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/self-reinforcing-cascades-how-ideas-beliefs-and-innovations-spread-in-the-digital-age","title":{"rendered":"Self-reinforcing cascades: How ideas, beliefs, and innovations spread in the digital age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/self-reinforcing-cascades-how-ideas-beliefs-and-innovations-spread-in-the-digital-age.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It might start as a joke, a belief, or a rumor. At first, it\u2019s easy to dismiss. But then it gains a twist, builds momentum, and spreads like wildfire. What causes some ideas to die out while others take over the internet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might start as a joke, a belief, or a rumor. At first, it\u2019s easy to dismiss. But then it gains a twist, builds momentum, and spreads like wildfire. What causes some ideas to die out while others take over the internet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}