Iceberg Tiers

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Iceberg Tiers, also called Iceberg Charts, are used both in and out of fandom to explain the lore, events, items, memes, explanations, theories, and other content of a niche topic. As you go down the iceberg, the points raised become more and more obscure, starting off with popular or well known facts or theories, such as the existence of Daleks, Darth Vader being Luke's father, or Superman's real name being Clark Kent, and ending with facts only discovered by fans at the furthest depths of the metaphorical ocean of knowledge for that fandom.

basically if u dont know how iceberg tier memes work, the more well known / common knowledge stuff is at the top, and the deeper the image goes, the less known / more obscure stuff is.

smile-files on Tumblr [1]

The idea behind this meme is listing things about a certain community or category from most commonly known to most obscure.

steche on Tumblr [2]

Videos explaining fandom icebergs have also become popular -- particularly popular on Youtube???[3] in late 2020 and early 2021 -- and usually involve fans going through an iceberg point by point, adding in their own thoughts about placement and occasionally showing confusion themselves if the point is unknown or obscure even to them.

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