# iceberg levels tiers — Meme Lab

Use to organize a topic from familiar surface knowledge down through increasingly obscure, strange, or disturbing layers.

- What it expresses: Visible mainstream facts sit above progressively deeper insider knowledge.
- Example: A fan community maps a band's hit singles at the top and its disputed bootleg recordings at the submerged bottom.
- When not to use it: A ranked list merely orders products from cheapest to most expensive; price ranking does not imply hidden depth.
- Tags: iceberg chart, knowledge tiers, obscurity, deep lore
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