Memes @lemmy.ml

1y ago

So happy this is something we left behind (mostly)

306 comments

This!
Edit: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!
- Take my upvote!
  
  Take my poor man's gold 🥇
- I don't miss gold, and I forgot about it being a thing until now.
  
  Remember how they took silver, a free joke gift, and monetized it?
  
  It's actually a nice way to fund a server, then Reddit shit our 200 different type of it and downgrade "gilding" to just mid tier award.
- I know your comment was written in that style on purpose, yet it still made me roll my eyes. Well done mate
- Gosh I hate award speech edits
- !angryupvote
- Take my upvote and leave!
- Edit: wow! thanks for the upvotes! my most upvoted comment is about female ejaculation...oh well!
- This but unironically
- Accurate.

One of those is not like the rest and doesn't truly deserve to be on the list – "username checks out". All the others provide absolutely no value, while "username checks out", at least, lets you notice a potential humorous situation which you might not have noticed otherwise.
- Good point.
  Edit: ahh, I mean: Underrated Comment.
  
  The real LPT are in the comments
- Username doesn't check out.
  
  Sadly, I was born with uncheck outable username disorder.
- I've been on the receiving end of "underrated comment" and I was surprised to learn it's not actually just vapor. You don't usually get comment karma on a post 24+ hours after it's posted, but on the couple of occasions when someone said this about my comment, it started the ball rolling on people reading and upvoting my comment. In other words, apparently it was underrated, because people weren't seeing it.
  There's no karma totals on lemmy so who cares, but it was interesting to learn it isn't entirely fluff, it's performing a duty in the comment thread ecosystem.
  
  ^ Underrared Comment
- This

We should probably stop masturbating the dead horse.
- No. But I’m down to stop talking about Reddit if you want
- This is what I don't get. I feel like one of the main things I see here is talk about reddit. Ffs, move on
  
  I hear you, and I'm 100％ ready to, also, but its understandable for people to keep talking about reddit by comparison when lemmy is clearly essentially a reddit clone.
  
  Y’all ultra butthurt over a shitpost in c/memes?!

This!

I also choose this guy's dead complaints.

Based

I like those comments. Most funny posts become even funnier because of the comment section.
You people sound really bitter tbh.
- based
  
  On what?
- Underrated comment right here
  
  This
- Not only bitter, lots of people here are dissing reddit like it's a recent ex.
  Some of those frequently repeated comments (well not stuff like "this") are completely organic memes that have come out of that community, which most of us were part of, me personally for over a decade. Now we suddenly hate everything we were part of?
  I'm kinda tired of the reddit bashing here. I'm not going to leave over it, but it doesn't add any value whereas some of the other content has been excellent.
  
  Redditors have always hated Redditors! You think we're going to stop just because we left Reddit?!?
  
  I can't wait until the bitter people find out that these reddit behaviors are actually just human behaviors. Let people enjoy themselves.
  
  Based
  
  Literally 1984.
- Based and comedy pilled.
- This.
  (Srsly tho, this whole post is a reddit-hates-reddit circle jerk using stale memes from reddit to make fun of stale comments from reddit. It's beat and it stinks like letting someone who doesn't even know you control your emotions.)

Have my updoot....and my axe.
Edit: my top comment is about axe body spray.
Edit 2: thanks for the gold kind stranger
Edit 3: my inbox has really blown up.

"r/woooosh"
- Wasn't it r/wooosh?
  
  r/itswooooshwith4os
  
  found the mobile user.
  
  r/wosh
  
  r/YourJokeButWorse
- "/r/subsifellfor" and "/r/subsithoughtifellfor"

redditors are always creative with their comments
literally no one ever said that
- Someone did, once. He was having a stroke tho.
- This should be higher up
  
  ~~This should be higher up~~ underrated comment
  FTFY

Based
- Underrated comment
  
  Take my upvote goddamnit

I also choose this guys wife.
- Fuck around and find out!

please accept this le reddit silver
- RIP my inbox.
  Edit: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!
- I remember when people "gave out" reddit silver. And then reddit stole the idea and made actual silver you could pay for.
  
  I thought that was a step further. Originally it was gold until Reddit made that a thing you could pay them for so people started doing silver and the wheel turned again

I also choose this guy's dead wife
- Based
  
  This

THIS
- underrated comment
  
  Based
- Second that
  
  Third that

I understand why it's not remembered positively, but this is what got me into Reddit. A bunch of dumbasses around the world sharing a sense of humour with other dumbasses on the other side.
It was funny. The threads were hilarious. I had tons of those old threads screenshotted for memories.
It gave Reddit the personality it had. The flawed, annoying, absolutely toxic yet truly remarkable personality it possessed.
I would love for Lemmy to have one of its own but I truly miss the absolute random bullshittery that Reddit had. I see it happen sometimes on Lemmy. And the hope that I'll get that feeling again keeps me on here.
- Understandable, have a nice day
  
  No u
- Based
  
  Underrated comment
  
  Truly the bassiest of the bassies.

- is Doug DeMuro
  
  Quirks and features

This
- is...
  
  Patrick.
  
  SPARTA

if i knew that my comment about koalas fucking a tree wouod be my most upvotrd comment i wouldnt have beleuevd it

I never understood why anyone would upvote these comments, or why no sub (that I know of) banned them.
- "This"

The real comment is always in the comments!

I'm gonna get down voted to hell for this buuuuut... *completely reasonable comment

Google en passant.
- Holy hell!
  
  Worryingly old response got rereleased

Take my upvote
- Yes officer, this comment right here

so much THIS
- Username checks out.

These are bad but God forgive the massgrave of uncreativity that is Yotube comments
- First
  
  Second
- As someone who makes YouTube comments, I can confirm that this is a 100% true.

Has anyone ever said that reddit comments are always creative?
- Really confused by these "no one ever said redditors are creative" comments. No one ever said that no one ever said that.
  Don't overthink it.
  
  I have no idea what you're trying to say with this comment.
- You are not the first one asking this, so let me explain. This is an old meme and it followed an other meme:
  Dumb Patrick: me, creating a meme
  Scientific Patrick: me, commenting a meme
  And everyone in the comments celebrates the homours and quality comments. And I was like "wtf" and wrote this one.
  Edit: Reddit moment (that one was missing)

It's a pretty dismal strawman in the first panel. Hell, even in 2010 they were famous for being that site that just recycled memes from other sites. Comments were same shit different era, 'le', 'good sir', 'narwhal bacon'... well at least that last one was original even if lolrandumbxD.
But yeah, 'based' and 'this' are literally reused from other sites, especially 'this', which its entire purpose is to show agreement on sites that don't have voting like reddit does. People saying 'this' on reddit don't understand reddit
- You think 4chan is digesting the content and not producing it? First mouth should CIA, then Reddit.
  
  It's missing 9gag
  
  Brings new meaning to "the Internet is a series of tubes"

I kind of miss the kind of gimmick users that made you genuinely say "yeah, the user name does check out here".

Same
- Same tbh
  
  T H I S

Some habits are best left behind. I'd like to see Lemmy continue to set quality above quantity instead of bow to social trends.
- ∆ this right here.
  
  The addition of the delta symbol is exactly the kind of creativity we need around here. I'd give you Lemmy silver if I could afford it.

Alas, I have but only one upvote to give

Came here to say this.
*Edit: thank you kind stranger!
- He came

New meme just dropped
- Actual meme

Holy hell
- New response just dropped
  
  actual zombie
- Does anyone else think, "Holy hell", or is it just me? I'm very curious. Please explain.

I hate the comments in this thread soooo much.
- this

It'll show up in any internet community eventually, don't worry.
- It's almost as if Internet culture is universal.

Username checks out can be very funny since it often well… leads to the username and adds another layer of joke.
It needs to fit though of course.

Google en passant
- Holy hell

Ah, the old Reddit Switcharoo
- You sir are a gentleman and a scholar

Also "My time to shine..." or something along those lines implying that they are the expert of current topic
- also... TIFU obligatory it wasn't today ... it was actually 1572 years ago
- Read comments to see what everyone else is saying. Leave a new comment, definitely not a response, saying the same thing.
  And these choice phrases that are guaranteed to add to the conversation.
  This is why I use Firefox.
  You are the product.
  [Political party or a member] sucks.
  This isn't a problem in my country.
  
  This isn't a problem in my country.
  Along the same lines are the "Americans forget that other countries exist" comments.
  Does American culture have a problem with ethnocentrism? Generally yes. Is reddit an American website where the vast majority of users, comments, posts, and topics are American? Also yes. When I'd see one of the "you're an arrogant asshole for assuming this post is about the US" comments, I just assumed it's someone being pedantic and contrarian for the sake of it. It just ruins what is sometimes a valid point.

This guy reddit

Same

Please tell me what "based" even means so I can misuse it amongst a bunch of 12 year olds and make them fucking stop.
- Crack = freebasing cocaine = base.
  Bay Area rapper Lil B used to be insulted by people who called him "based", essentially meaning crackhead. He reappropriated it to mean outspokenly being yourself while actively disregarding what anybody else thinks, and started also going by Based God. That's it.
  
  Based and hip-hop history-pilled
  
  I feel like the usage has somewhat changed, people comment "based" basically whenever they unironically support the thing being presented.
  
  Which was originally used on the internet as a replacement/slang for "best" but apparently I am the only one who remembers that. Everyone seems to think it started as the cringelord PCM shit, but it absolutely meant "best" for years before that.
  It definitely meant crackhead in hip-hop too, but it had a double meaning of "best" as well. Based God = best crackhead god.
  
  I mean, other than ignoring that now people only use it ironically after the far right spammed it out talking about heinous garbage.
- I believe it's come from "based god", which referred to a god that appeared on earth.
  Of course, it's been 10 years since I heard it used in that context, and assuming it hasn't evolved since then may be wrong...
- Based and trolling pilled.
- based on what?

I only partly agree. The part remembers all those situations where a comment on reddit almost made me spit out my coffee while at work because I found it truly hilarious

Python people be like: self.

Same
- Underrated comment
  
  Literally

Underrated comment.

God this comment section is giving me a headache. Well done, folks.
- This

I will say Reddit and lemmy are the only sites where comments genuinely make me laugh sometimes

It'd be real nice if someone created a browser addon that auto-downvoted these same comments and puns. With enough users you could wipe out anyone wanting to make the comments when they get 100 down votes just by people with the addon loading the comments section.
- Automatically hiding them would be fine, but I personally wouldn't be comfortable with any upvote or downvote automation.
  
  Yeah, automatic voting gets dangerously close to automatic censorship and botting.
  Also, human language, context and nuance is complicated and the unknown error bar on "correctly flagged posts" scares me. It's not entirely predictable what kind of posts people may make, and accordingly not entirely predictable what the plugin would and wouldn't recognise.
  A post chain "Madness?" / "THIS" / "IS" / "SPARTA!" may make sense and be fun in the right context, but the "THIS" comment could get botted to hell.

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