What does it mean?!
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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But arenβt jokes supposed to be like, funny or something?
According to an unsourced claim on Wikipedia, "repetition is the essential comedic device"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedic_device
Repetition legitimizes
Repetition legitimizes
Holy hell
Donβt think itβs a joke. Itβs just a thing that is done
I blocked that community because it was literally flooding my front page
I almost did but every now and then they have something good, so I kept it... For now
Same.
Yep. 196 communities are getting pretty highly upvoted too which is why youβre seeing them so much when browsing all.
I mean they're also one of the main meme communities atm. Most of the other ones don't have near as much traffic
I mean, there's [email protected]
That's basically r/memes on Reddit. no humor, just people saying their thoughts in a crappy meme format.
196 communities?
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=r%2F196
I only knew because someone else explained it a few days ago
C/[email protected] pr something like that
Literally the first thing I did after getting into Lemmy was blocking all of the 196 communities. Literally brain-rotting
I thought I also saw, at some point, a post saying the only rule was your post had to have "rule" somewhere in the title. (Probably in response to people making their required one post and already putting rule in the title). And after that I feel like I saw a lot more posts with rule in the title.
I'm pretty certain it's not a rule there, everyone just kind of assumes it's what you're meant to do when they post, because they see every other post.
Kind of a self enforcing unofficial rule, I guess?