• FreshLight
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    681 year ago

    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…

    • @Jaderick
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      1 year ago

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

      • Track_ShovelOP
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        221 year ago

        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.

          • Track_ShovelOP
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            141 year ago

            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]
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              171 year ago

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

                • Annoyed_🦀
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                  131 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.

                • @somethingsnappy
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                  71 year ago

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

            • @[email protected]
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              101 year ago

              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

              • Xariphon
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                41 year ago

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

                • @[email protected]
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                  11 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.

              • TurboWafflz
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                31 year ago

                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

                • cheesymoonshadow
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                  21 year ago

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

    • idunnololz
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      121 year ago

      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]
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        131 year ago

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

        Hi, future people!

        • Rose Thorne(She/Her)
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          51 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.