Cultural Significance and Later Decline
BIFF served as a satire of an exceptional behaviour in a fairly homogeneous environment.
The explosive growth of the web led to the rapid decline of BIFF, as Biffisms became no longer exceptional and the Internet rapidly became a much larger and much more heterogeneous environment, leading both to newcomers not being aware of BIFF's existence and to BIFF becoming less contrasting as an exception in the increasingly "noisy" Internet.
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