What even is 196, why’s it so popular and how’d it get its name? I saw so much from it I think I blocked it just because it was drowning out everythink else.
It spun off from the subreddit, which spun off from 195 due to cultural disagreements.
195 came about as a fun little private subreddit between a few friends for their dormitory room. It blew up, things got ugly, and it was eventually shut down, with most people moving to 196 and its sibling subs.
People wanted to replicate 196 on Lemmy, so here we are.
It drowns a lot of things out since one of the rules of the community is that when you visit, you’re meant to make at least one post. Since it doesn’t have a small user base, that also means a lot of posts, and as it doesn’t have a clear direction, besides a generic meme group, it gets anything and everything, which doesn’t help matters.
its a vaguely progressive/leftist former shitposting subreddit with a very large lgbtq+ and ally prescence. the only rule is that you have to post before leaving browsing it. a sort of unofficial rule is that every post must have ‘rule’ in it. As for the name, no clue.
just looked it up, apparently the community used to be r/195 but it got shut down and then it became r/196. i could find signifigantly less about why r/195 had its same, all i found was this one post saying it was someone’s apartment number, so essentially its basically random.
Probably so. That and 196 is a very active community.
What even is 196, why’s it so popular and how’d it get its name? I saw so much from it I think I blocked it just because it was drowning out everythink else.
It spun off from the subreddit, which spun off from 195 due to cultural disagreements.
195 came about as a fun little private subreddit between a few friends for their dormitory room. It blew up, things got ugly, and it was eventually shut down, with most people moving to 196 and its sibling subs.
People wanted to replicate 196 on Lemmy, so here we are.
It drowns a lot of things out since one of the rules of the community is that when you visit, you’re meant to make at least one post. Since it doesn’t have a small user base, that also means a lot of posts, and as it doesn’t have a clear direction, besides a generic meme group, it gets anything and everything, which doesn’t help matters.
It’s a queer shitposting channel. I love it, but it’s not for everyone.
It split off from 195 when they got invaded by homophobes and have been having a gay old time ever since.
its a vaguely progressive/leftist former shitposting subreddit with a very large lgbtq+ and ally prescence. the only rule is that you have to post before leaving browsing it. a sort of unofficial rule is that every post must have ‘rule’ in it. As for the name, no clue.
just looked it up, apparently the community used to be r/195 but it got shut down and then it became r/196. i could find signifigantly less about why r/195 had its same, all i found was this one post saying it was someone’s apartment number, so essentially its basically random.