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 [email protected] 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.
thank you for your service 🫡
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.
Because literally everyone on Lemmy is 35
That must be why I like it more here.
I’m a decade older, but I feel like a lot of people who left for Lemmy were active on Reddit 10-12 years ago, and have preference for the flavor of discourse of that time. As it grew, reddit became far too sarcastically meta in a lot of ways. What was once a spicy “in joke” became boilerplate. I’m not surprised at the exhumation of the old memes. It may just be a phase of some sort, a necessary reset, who knows?
Im 12 and what is this?
35 is a very young age that people in their 40ies like me envy the youth of.
Nah, you’re two years off.
Or, more likely, my parents managed to hide two years of my life from me.
That’s awful sneaky of them.
Yours, too?!
Damn them! Stealing our years with the expectation they’ll get to enjoy them. Not in the cheapest retirement home Florida can offer!
Aww shucks, thanks. I’m actually 40 but people say I look younger since I went on a diet.
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.
Yeah bring back overly attached girlfriend and winning baby!
And Doge before crypto ruined it.
Fair, but trollface and ffffffuuuuu are expired however.
I could use some trollface every now and then.
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
I’ll be 40 in a few months. I think for people who grew up at the beginning of the internet, we know how much things can change and how quickly.
My guess is that we’re less willing to put up with bs changes, and more willing to move on because we know something’s popularity doesn’t neccrsarily make it the best choice.
I think that by adulthood into mid-life and older, adults care less about what their friends are using and more about how well things work for them. That’s certainly the case for me
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.
Classic memes, so old some people still called em image macros.
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.
Because no one had time during the covid lockdown years to make new memes. Everyone was making bread, decluttering and buying new PJ’s.
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Old people, like me 😹
Vintage memes are comfy
Because we are mostly people from the corpse of reddit, and reddit was nothing but reposts of 10 year old memes?
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.
Because the hot new meme is old memes.
