this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2023
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[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This post makes me feel like we've come full circle. All the way around and back to the 2010 9GAG era of memes. Don't get me wrong, though. This makes me nostalgic. It was a simpler time..

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Lemmy is Reddit from 13 years ago. Here’s hoping it doesn’t go the same way Reddit did lol

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Seriously. 2010-ish reddit was a great fucking place. If I start fucking seeing novelty accounts, I'm fucking out of here, to some far-flung instance with a militant mod.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There were accounts on reddit that just made a running joke, or something to that extent. For instance, once guy was shittywater colour, and he'd draw your comments if he liked them. While he was actually one I didn't mind, he's the first example that comes to mind. most of them were dogshit and didn't add anything worth while.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just like in 1998, when The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

fucking seriously. It was funny the first 30,182 times.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

It is funny because he will randomly pops up and write a super compelling explanation for a question/discussion, and then the last line will have that signature move. It's a blessing to catch him in the wild.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I kind of, liked commahorror but I think most people, didn't get it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I loved seeing comments from shittywatercolor, poem for your sprog (or something like that), unidan before his fall from grace and the undertaker because it usually caught me by surprise

There were a lot of others that were very boring and I would block them on RiF

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

Also on the nice list was schnoodle and his random poetry. Always made my day a little more cheerful.

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

Schnoodle is one of the things that I miss from Reddit. Not enough to sign back in, but those poems did make me smile and even shed a few tears occasionally.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It took me reading your comment to realize the person above was talking about an account that did shitty watercolor and not shittywater color. I was very confused

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

He did mostly artwork in sepia tones but occasionally would drink up on green juice for some verdant pieces.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

No. Sr. Grafo posted his own comics, then made comics in the replies to people. Shittywatercolor did as his name says to random comments in any thread.

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

srgrafo. now there's a guy who could make me laugh

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

See you in 13 years on Phlegmmy!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Memes are going through a cycle similar to art I feel. We started with just basic memes of text on random pictures. Then we got really good at those and we started making meta memes. Then we started contemporary memes: memes that challenge what it even means to be a meme (b and big chungus). And now we are tired of contemporary memes and moving back towards basic memes.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I wonder if meme studies will be a legitimate field of research for future anthropologists that study the digital age.

Hi, future people!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a snake in my free real estate?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Snake finding a shoe: "Is it Free Real Estate?"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I mean, so long as some kind of record is kept?

It would be a wealth of social information. Political events, economic crisis, the views of the common man of the time, all have been represented through memery. This is, in a sense, a journal of opinion with a wonderful look across spectrums. They also encapsulate humor, showing where it has and hasn't changed across generations.

Sure, a massive chunk would be highly irrelevant, but it's still a solid look into part of a wide culture.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nascar is significantly more progressive than trump

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fact that a sentence starting with "NASCAR is significantly more progressive than" can possibly make sense says a LOT about how society is going these days..

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

NASCAR started off as a bunch of bootleggers running from the cops, they're just returning to their roots!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

God tier meme

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I thought this was a political compass thing for a second.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Fourth one should've been: "Mehdagascar" showing a yellow Madagascar with an indifferent face.