Deep dives became real articles

What changed

A deep dive is the long-form explanation of a meme: what the joke is, what the technology behind it actually does, and why the two are funny together. It is written in graduated levels, so you can stop when you have enough.

Until now that whole thing was rendered inline at the bottom of the meme page. You could read it, but you could not send it to anyone. There was no URL for it.

Now there is. Every explanation lives at its own address:

/deepdive/<meme-slug>

6,676 of these articles are published and listed in the sitemap.

What the meme page shows instead

The meme page did not lose anything worth keeping. It now shows a short abstract where one exists, a map of the article’s sections, and a link through to the full piece. The map entries are real links: pick “Level 3” and you land on level 3 of the article, not at the top of it.

What the article page gives you

• The meme itself, kept as context, with a link back to it.
• A section map when the article has more than one level.
• The full explanation, with its published date and, where it applies, an updated date.
• A preview of the highest-scoring discussion, and a link into the live thread.
• Up to three related deep dives in the same category.

That last one is a small decision that matters: related links point at other articles, not back at other meme pages. If you are reading, you stay reading.

Honest limits

The discussion shown on an article is a read-only preview. It shows top-level entries only, capped at 20, ranked by score. Replying, voting, and the full thread all live on the meme page, which is where the “Join the discussion” link takes you.

Older links still work. A deep dive reached by an older identifier redirects permanently to the canonical /deepdive/<slug> address.