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I'm glad there's fewer 'comedians' here (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was Reddit earlier and viewing one of question subs. The top 5 comments were all 'jokes'.

What's worse is no matter how unfunny the top jokes are you'll get hundreds of cold comments flogging the joke to death.

The 6th top comment actually answered the question.

Lemmy may not have as much content but what is here is so much better quality.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Until I left Reddit I didn't realize how not funny the comments were.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Also repetitive.

Before entering the sub you could usually predict the top half dozen joke replies, every-time.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (4 children)

And my axe! This! What he said. The narwhal bacons at midnight! Pics or it didn't happen.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

The narwhal thing isn’t quite the same, as it very rarely came up and I think was always cringe (at least it was 10 years ago).

100% on the rest, and I throw in “what?” Responded to with the above post in uppercase. That one was fine exactly one time, after the great time it was no longer clever.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

The narwal bacons at midnight

That brings back memories.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

This is the only time this comment is acceptable.

I hate you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Okay, I definitely agree the “meme” jokes and most-frequently-upvoted joke comments were stupid as fuck, but there was definitely some gold on occasion. I think we’re looking at a 1:100 ratio, but those 1’s would crack me up.

The actual original thoughts and reactions. Not the regurgitated “jokes” that were the Reddit in-jokes, but the genuinely funny takes you’d find every so often.