A foundational principle of open memetics is: just ask for people’s data. People will happily give you their data if they understand why you want it, and feel like it will be good for them.
Examples of “just ask”
- Washington Post collecting thousands of people’s TikTok archives by just telling them they want to analyze them: https://thewashingtonpost.formstack.com/forms/help_investigate_tiktoks_algorithm