I think the “joke” is dumb AF and I don’t like it. But I really like the phenomenon where people get together and start shitposting with a certain theme. It brings people together, creates a sense of community and encourages posting. This is something Lemmy very much needs.

I feel like a lot of (especially new) Lemmings are like the dogs that don’t want to give up the ball, no give only throw. Lemmy needs to grow and expand. If everyone forces it to be something it isn’t it will die.

You should start posting some frivilous meme to express your discontent with copious amounts of frivilous memes. I dbl dog dre you.

Here’s the advantage of being easily amused: You’re amused a lot more often. Anyway, there’s not much to “get,” it’s a harmless way that people use to signal that they are in and feel part of a community, like the rubber duck thing for Jeep drivers, or Swifties.

Not everybody has to like it, or participate. I would just point out the Frequency Illusion, a.k.a. the red light effect, where it seems a lot more prevalent because you emphatically notice it.

It’s valid as pointless dumb fun, just whimsy for its own sake. It’s a matter of survival really, on some level. If everything’s serious, nothing ends up mattering sooner or later anyway. You go numb. A little frivolity can be a way to stay grounded and keep feeling things.

i’ll take dumb moth memes over yet another american posting about their damn politics tbh

I agree on the jeans and beans bullshit, that was easily the most cringe shit since rage comics and haha, le funny le reddit catchphrases. DAE LE NARWHAL HEHEUHEUHEUHEUHEH anyway. The moth thing at least had some kind of life as a meme, as far as I know.

The fedv has a lot of shit going on that’s most easily explained as “activity at any cost” and/or a userbase that doesn’t understand what makes stuff funny or not funny in the same way as the rest of the internet - probably somewhat worse than Reddit during the rage comic era. And straight up spam, which I suspect for a lot of political “memes”: yes haha we sure are very angry at all the things that get very legitimately posted here on the fediverse. By people who are very people and real. Which, while fair enough in some ways, unfortunately leaves the political alleged humor with a comedy content that’s completely undetectable. There was a brief blip of, ahem, actual memes around “certain events” that were the sort of thing people meme about, *cough cough*, and then it’s right back to shit that makes the 1950s comics look funny. (That Garfield is so wacky!!, I laugh every time. Lasanga.)

But at least FOMO is not really an issue, more like Profound Relief At Missing Out.

Just bring in more Bats, Light Switches, British, and Scissors memes to counter them

I mean you don’t like fun, that’s cool

You should have seen when corn memes were the big thing. Had to block some communities for that week

These beans hasn’t bean ba dum tss bad enough for me to start blocking again, but you are free to do so

It popped up again to take heat off the tesseract noise, I’m absolutely convinced. It’s used as air cover to drown out topics they don’t like

Those are all fine.
No, the problem is the rule posts.

I have a real unpopular opinion that memes are not really all that great as a topic itself and I block all the meme posting communities so they are not in my feed.

Lemmy could use more content as a counter to the low quality spam, be the change you want to see

Downvoted because I agree. Sometimes there’s an actual good joke, but the majority of them are too samey.

At least with things like loss or rickrolling, there’s fun to be had in the tricking someone/being tricked into a silly punchline, like with dad jokes, but there’s not really enough setup for much payoff in the beans/jeans/moth/lamp memes.

I mostly just think it’s weird Lemmy acts like it came from here but it’s just a crusty meme from the earlier internet. Dusty removed hours in here