What is /c/196, and why does it show up so much on All
What is /c/196, and why does it show up so much on All
Their sidebar appears to be intentionally vague. It is overwhelmingly low quality memes.
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History wise
195 was a college dorm of a few friends who made a reddit sub to share memes with each other
Over time the sub grew really fast and became a major shitposting sub. I dont remember if it was while 196 was still around or after it shut down, but r/196 was made and became pro lgbt while 195 was kinda a cesspool. The guy running 195 shut it down because they were no longer dorming together or talking, and it was becoming hard to manage a huge sub alone with so many people posting hateful crap
196 became the weird trans femboy lgbt shitpost sub
197 popped up because people didnt like the lgbt stuff and it kinda became more like 195
196 moved here but a lot of people jumping to lemmy havent actually interacted with 196 before do theyre just posting whatever whenever
That's a great explanation. I love the idea of having an "internet historian" (other than the actual internet historian, who really doesn't talk the origins of the internet). I guess there's the meme databases but still, this is a great read.
Yeah, what's up with Internet Historian's more recent videos? When I first found the dude, he literally did just do history about internet stuff. Now it all just seems like half hour long shit posts with no real info about anything in particular. Just strings of "lol so random" type humor.
You should watch only "Internet Historian" channel, he has alternate channels and those are of mixed quality (all far weaker). I avoid Incognito Mode like the plague, yet he links that channel off his main channel constantly
The main channel is mostly still kind of an internet history. Concordia was an obvious outlier though. But yeah all of his other stuff is basically just him creating whatever he wants with his friends. Humor for me is kinda hit or miss.
Best of lemmy summary here
Amazing history! Thank you.
I wish I could give you an award
Cut that shit out. Just thank them and move on, awards were useless trinkets that fed the spezmachine
Same with upvotes, right? Lol
Excepts votes cost nothing while morons spend money on an icon instead of just saying thanks. Bit of a difference there.
No, it separated the bad comments from the good for free. The stupid icons were free just long enough to get morons addicted and thinking saying the words "thanks that was very valuable/helpful" wasn't enough and they had to get the dopamine rush of patting themselves on the back for getting and receiving equally useless golden upvotes.
I was apart of r/196, I never knew there was earlier iterations, I thought it was just a drop a meme and go style place. this is actually interesting.
Oh thanks. I used to see them pop up on Reddit and never really got what it was about.
What's missing from this description is that the main rule of that sub/community is that you can't leave without posting something, hence all the "rule" memes.