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Vaush posts go in the_dunk_tank
Dunk posts in general go in the_dunk_tank, not here
Don't post low-hanging fruit here after it gets removed from the_dunk_tank
listen, just let them enjoy things. My god. Yeah it's kinda cringe facebook level memes, but it's what they like
The vibe I've gotten from lemmy.ml is they're a lot of gen-x to late boomer nerdy programmer types who just wanna have a nice polite website. I find it charming honestly. They're sweet. A little lib sometimes but no one's perfect.
Whenever someone tells me to let people enjoy things I want to sink my teeth into their bare flesh like a wild animal
be a hater from afar.
i thought the lost hiker one was funny and relatable 
These memes are fucking embarassing, just bottom of the barrel shit that an AI could shit out. And everyone types exactly like redditors, there is actually zero fucking difference between lemmy and redditors.
Wrong, they're using a different website, so there's at least one difference.
I feel emotionally drained from looking at those memes like lemmy is just an instance for energy vampires.
Collin Robinson ass motherfuckers
We need some WWDITS emojis
Is it popular enough?
Yes
Where are my emojis then 😤
I'm not gonna lie, noticing the disconcerting number of hugely upvoted (300-600 vote) stuff that is just painfully unfunny or unenlightening is making me roll back my participation in hexbear. It's not my place to say anyone doesn't belong here, though. But I am sad that the huge influx of new users has changed the whole feel of this community overnight.
Sort by “local” and you’ll only see hexbear posts
yeah, the community proper hasn't changed all that much. we're just connected to other communities now. if ya don't wanna leave the island, don't cross the bridge
you can block the comm. it instantly improved the experience
Not everyone's sense of humor is poisoned by being terminally online.
It's a known fact that Redditors (and these Ledditor knockoffs) are criminally unfunny. There's a reason why the only parts of Reddit that are remotely funny are 95% Twitter screenshots. It's because Twitter, unlike the bottomless pit of unfunny that is Reddit, is actually funny.
Those are normal memes. We just happen to have a culture of great posting passed down to us from weird Twitter.
Our great forefathers fought in the posting trenches of something awful and twitter in order for their descendants to reap the rewards (incomprehensible hyper-online brain poisoning).
We will honor the goons and dirtbags who came before by never logging off 
Semper post, comrade o7
they needed 500 api calls on their custom reddit app to find a meme good enough they could pretend to be funny. left to themselves, they're full Tom Myers.
hell yeah dude
Death to America
Some lemmy users are 60 years old and that's OK
The three you posted are okay memes, not rancid (and that's like A LOT sadly) , but obviously not hilarious, nor surrealist nor avantgarde. Yet they are fine.
Some people just want to see cats in costumes. Not because of anything broken inside them, but just because they interact with the internet that way. And it's okay
I'm sorry, my zoomer brain doesn't appreciate anything that's not deep fried or said by a head coming out of toilet. Cats are reactionary and old people harsh my vibes by reminding me of death.
we like sincerity, sure
but like, post-ironic surrealist meta sincerity
none of that weird boomer shit
the beer one is rly funny because that's not a real thing? someone tell me if i'm off base here but in states where groceries can sell alcohol they usually carry a wide selection of beer? i have a suspicion that they just think "IPA" means any beer that isn't brewed by a company owned by AB InBev.
I think the craft brewery boom died down, but for a while whenever a brewery opened they sold at least 3 different IPAs, maybe a stout/Belgian sour beer if you're lucky, and sometimes a Pilsener if they felt like going for broad appeal and liked being open for more than 4 years.
IPAs are the easiest beer to not mess up, and that's why they were the most common kind of craft beer. I hate IPAs and they were all named shit like "skullfucker IPA", "unhinged psychopath IPA". I guess I can't get over the bitter part and taste the "citrus" or whatever flavour notes people talk about.
Grocery stores, yeah you can buy whatever, but usually any new beerto try was an IPA.
I've been gone for awhile so I missed the whole federation thing. I thought lemmy was made by Marxists?
Edit: oh nvm I was thinking of lemmygrad.
The two Lemmy devs are marxists who run lemmygrad and lemmy.ml. Lemmy.ml is like a general purpose thing though so it turned very lib.
Lemmy.ml is a control group meant to be studied. While making your observations, please do not tamper with the research subjects. You are asked to post any relevant findings to Hexbear or Lemmygrad for further analysis.
There's a certain amount of edge that you have to have for good meme making and milquetoast people don't have it.
So I've been out of the meme game for a while now but to me it felt like there were a steady stream of meme formats that would come out and then in the past, say 3 or 4 years, the overall volume of new meme formats took a huge nosedive for some reason.
Has any other (old) person noticed this or is it just me?
I think I know what you mean. It was all motivational posters or impact font macros for a while. Then there were those endless Epic Fail Guy or rage guy comics. Then I don't even know, it was wild for a while after around 2012.
Now a meme is one of three things: a picture with a white box and black text, a wojack, or edits of webcomics from 15 years ago
In the Star Trek community it's all screen caps with fake dialogue
Yep. That's exactly it.
There was a period, at least a few years and probably more like 5 or so, where there was a short meme cycle to the point where sometimes a meme format would be stale within a month or two and there was a huge churn of new meme formats that would be constantly emerging.
Then it's like someone just turned the tap off and the culture died (I wonder if something shifted in 4chan maybe?) and now we're just stuck with wojacks.
Speaking of which...
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
