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[–] [email protected] 109 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

EDIT: I am pretty sure this meme is older than the comedian.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The meme is no longer a minor.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is so old, the girl definitely isn't either.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I was going to say, I think I first saw this like a decade ago.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

This might be twice as old as the comedian.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

thanks now i have little girls by oingo boingo stuck in my head

and i curse them for making it so damn catchy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Eh, it's fine. I've never seen it before.

[–] JackbyDev 1 points 2 days ago

Good.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 days ago (2 children)

She's gonna go places.

With any luck, she'll come back.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

She’s like 20 now hahaha

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

😂

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That took an uncomfortably long time for me to get the joke and I’m mad about it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Omfg I had to read your comment before I got the joke. That kid is FUNNY.

[+] [email protected] -31 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Hey, remember when funny almost died on Reddit because of all of the stand-up shots so they created a stand-up shots subreddit and made these against the rules for funny? Can we learn from that lesson that was already learned?

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 days ago (1 children)

[–] JackbyDev 7 points 2 days ago

I don't think the volume is anywhere near the need for that yet.

[+] [email protected] -15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Sorry you got downvoted. I 100% agree with you. These communities are getting flooded with this fucking garbage and these posts should be on their own Stand-up communities. Judging from the replies to your comment, the community here seems just as dogshit as Reddit, so unfortunately I fully expect these communities to go to shit. Between the political posts and this crap, it has already basically been ruined. Such a shame that people are okay with this stuff.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

Eh, create your own community if you think you have a great idea for it. If it works out, maybe people will move posts there.

Whining about what's on an existing community is lame.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

But it's funny?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

People don't seem to understand the value of the community is what the community is about. If you dilute what it is about, by letting it be about everything, it becomes worthless. Just another dumping ground for whatever bullshit someone decides to put there. It's the moderated communities that stay on topic that are valuable.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In this case the community is “funny” so posting funny lines from comedians seems pretty on topic to me, am I missing something?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

From that perspective you're correct. I suppose it depends on what you want from funny. This is basically just a joke with a window dressing, does this also fit in jokes? The problem r/funny had, that looks like is repeating itself here, is that these are super low effort so they flood the community and drown out the other content. That's why it makes sense to put these sorts of things in their own community.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I see where you’re coming from. I think as the fediverse grows it will naturally start to specialize more like you describe reddit having done in the past.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yea well none of this is really surprising. Lemmy is supposed to be a Reddit alternative and therefor it was always destined to fall victim to many of the same issues that plagued Reddit. Just because you get rid of centralization doesn't automatically make a platform or community good :-/. Can you believe the toxic responses we're getting to our comments? Absolute trash people in this community.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That's why I framed it as learning from the same mistakes Reddit learned from already. We've already seen how this plays out, why repeat it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It's one way communities can grow. Especially in lower population forums, it makes sense to start out more general to concentrate enough traffic instead of spreading it out into a bunch of mostly dead, niche communities that fail to hit the critical mass required to get people coming back and posting more. Once the community has grown enough to the point where a certain type of content is drowning out the rest, that content gets separated off into its own subforum or community. You're seeing it as a mistake to avoid repeating, but it's actually a great benefit to both this community and the future communities that will eventually spin off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

That's a legit counter argument and one I can get behind.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It will be repeated based on the clown replies we've gotten from community members here and the down votes we're currently accumulating. If you take clowns from Reddit and move them to Lemmy, they're still clowns. Why would anything change?