This article about Sampling a music talks about how musicians take parts of existing songs and reuse them to make something new. I thought this really connects to the idea of replication and variation from the chapter because music samples change and spread kind of like social media posts do. (From a small piece of a song can turn into something completely different when it’s used in another context.) It made me realize that creativity often comes from reusing and transforming what’s already there.

I thought it was really interesting how the chapter compared social media to evolution. It made me realize that posts kind of “evolve” too like when people add comments, quote tweets, or make new versions of memes. I see this a lot on TikTok, where one simple video turns into so many different versions as people keep adding their own twist. It’s interesting that how creative that can be, but also a little scary because no one really controls where it goes, and sometimes it ends up spreading negative stuff or misinformation.