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The absolute state of the memes on Lemmy.ml (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is the opposite of culture. This shrinks your brain instead of stimulating it. They are just so bland. They are just so old. Spiciness and humour are completely unknown to them. Here are the current top 4:

How come liberals are so bad at meming? I'm sure I've seen half of these already, years ago. It's like someone dredged the bottom of ifunny.co for the most milquetoast, blandest things possible.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There genuinely was a change in 4chan and I've often wondered if this had a profound effect on the rest of internet culture. It sounds silly, but I can't deny that something's really changed.

moot (previous 4chan admin) retired from the site in January of 2015. After he left there was a scramble for mod positions and a honest to goodness white supremacist plot to control the site. That's definitely when things started to feel weird. I don't really know how or why the wider internet was impacted, it was probably multiple things at once, but 2015 seems like a weird shift of a year