I’m glad people are active, but why are the most upvoted memes things from years ago? Bots? Users desperate for content?
I believe it started out as a joke to post ancient memes. And then it just took off and people kept posting them.
That and like most other people said: on average there are older people here, so they relate to the memes of yore.
Yeah, I might be to blame for some of that shit. I started !antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world a few months ago, then it blew up and started covering c/all, then it spread like herpes to the other meme communities.
Shit has died way down since that one weird week.
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on average there are older people here, so they relate to the memes of yore.
Old memes remind me of when I had the normal amount of sad and existential dread.
Reddit used to be good, we just reliving the good old day of Reddit.
Serious answer: why not? There’s no expiring date on meme. If it convey the funny then there’s nothing wrong with using old meme. Renewing meme for renewing sake is boring.
Fair, but trollface and ffffffuuuuu are expired however.
Trollface is quite a defining meme tbh, it’s a symbol for trolling. The rest however…
Because comedy changes.
I think lemmy skews a lot older than reddit, we are reliving our internet youth
Classic memes, so old some people still called em image macros.
I assumed it’s because Lemmy has more users over 30. I think most of the younger people are still hoping in vain that Reddit will stop being horrible. I imagine they’ll be here soon enough lol
If they can handle the app, there’s no reason to come to lemmy. Reddit is better, only reason I’m (and many others) not there, is their shitty app.
For me it was Huffman basically saying he planned to ruin the site AND force everyone to use the shitty app so that he could sell off Reddit in the IPO to put more money into his own overstuffed pockets. Then he allowed everyone to graffiti a fake wall about how mad they were for one whole week so those who stayed could pretend like they were “fighting the man” and then completely stop talking about it lol
I wasn’t a fan of that either, but ultimately it doesn’t matter. I used it as a time waster, the politics of the site just aren’t that important to me.
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Because no one had time during the covid lockdown years to make new memes. Everyone was making bread, decluttering and buying new PJ’s.
And now the economy is too expensive to pay for new memes.Memes used to be funny
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I thought that too until we got into deep fried memes. They are usually minorly funny or completely humorless random pictures that have been tossed through the deep fryer. For some reason that makes them hilarious to others.
Old people, like me 😹
Well, if it’s content, I don’t really give a fuck, to be honest. Lemmy needs more engagement, and if that means posting 20 years of memes in a 2 year time period, let’s see some nyan cat! 🌈
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Well, why don’t you use some critical thinking, rub whatever brain cells you have together, and see if you can come up with a link between:
- A lack of content
- Old, unoriginal content being posted
I would love to see old memes, where are you finding them? All I see are the shitty stock photo memes lately, and it sucks.
Because we are mostly people from the corpse of reddit, and reddit was nothing but reposts of 10 year old memes?
Vintage memes are comfy
Maybe I am mistaken, but aren’t “new memes” people reposting their twitter crap and hoping for better luck? The AI memes are getting pretty good, if those are what counts as new memes and what I think new memes are are actually older then idk.
