Seriously, it was all the rage back when I joined my first instance.
I think what really grabbed people's attention is that he kept refusing to explain why he wanted to do that.
Whatever his reason was, it was such a stupid thing to be memeing about that I felt at home here right away. Edit: this was a while back now, during the first big migration from reddit after the API change protests.
There was also that one wave of denim covered everything.
Jeef Jroganoff
And Ed Sheeran memes.
Don’t forget Van week!
There were the German Sturgeons
Stör memes were lit
Don’t forget about that month of antique memes
It wasn't a week, btw. It was three days.
And you still won't explain why!
Not pooping for 3 days followed by pooping for 3 days straight
And then came the beans..
If I recall correctly, the follow up was the same person complaining about being painfully constipated for several days.
It's been a while, so I must have exaggerated it in my mind. Three days certainly sounds more plausible.
I missed out on “not pooping for a week” being the hot topic but there is more potential for funny answers to that than whatever is going on with moths and beans right now. And if you want to not poop for a week, I’ve heard opioids are effective.
It was more the lack of an explanation that hooked people, rather than just the not pooping - IIRC, we never ended up getting any real explanation for why this guy needed to not poop for a week.
It was honestly pretty great, people came up with everything from "he's smuggling himself internationally in a shipping container" to "he's determined to be the winner in a really weird Mr Beast video" to "he's giving up on society to live with the sloths" before it started to turn into kind of a circle-jerk.
And of course, suggestions for stopping the poop included butt plugs, eating only cheese, butt plugs, a liquid diet, and more butt plugs.
Didn’t it turn out he was making a pilgrimage to Mecca and didn’t want to use public bathrooms or some such?
Nope, the poop thing was only entertaining as long as the one poster who started it kept it alive. The beans and jeans thing were both funny for a couple of weeks.
This moth thing is better than all of those combined. So many clever moth based memes expanding beyond the starting moth loves lamps starting point.
Beans were a good nonsensical way to show people how this whole federation thing works, and to start something rolling. Other memes haven't quite hit the same mark, as they're trying to redo something already done. The moth thing though, I've seen some pretty good ones among the expected. One doesn't create a great meme, it comes to life on its own, often after a lot of misses.
i'm pretty sure beans will never die
I think what really grabbed people's attention is that he kept refusing to explain why he wanted to do that.
That’s what did it for me. I kept wondering how the reason could possibly be worse or more embarrassing than the question itself.
I thought that “music festival” was a great guess. Those porta-johns get nasty.
Haj was a great guess too
Yes it was. Bonus points for taking timing into account!
What if the concern wasn't that he would have to use a disgusting bathroom, but rather that he takes horrible shits and didn't want someone to know?
I mean, I'd certainly be embarrassed to have to tell the internet something like "I'm visiting my in-laws for a few days, and I really want them to like me. The problem is that I shit like a farm animal, and they only have one bathroom."
Literally everybody poops. It does not need to be a source of shame, EVERYONE does it.
My guess was cave exploration. He said he was going to a remote area where pooping was an option, but he didn't want to, which makes sense when you know you've gotta carry that shit out with you in your cave pack. There are only a handful of scientific cave expeditions that go into caves for three days, so I figured that if he said so, he would unequivocally dox himself.
Another good one! Not wanting to dox himself explains the motivation to hide the reason, which was the biggest mystery.
Someone's out here documenting all the Lemmy lore right?
Only real OGs remember the Lemmy nopoop challenge
He deleted it! The post is still around, but all the associated comments are gone. Does anybody know if it was all archived?
I suppose it's possible but I doubt it lol
I miss the days of wizard orbs. That weekend was pure bliss for me.
Taylor swift
Seems like it simultaneously last week and also a decade ago.
I just hope Margot Robbie is ok.
Dont forget the Fediverse chick. Shes everyones girlfriend.
They’re both deep underwater skeletons and have been for like a decade idk why something that’s like ancient internet history is being treated like something new, Lemmy is an alternate universe or something
Pooping good, not pooping bad.
I miss orbs
Same comrade, same.
¿Qué pasó con los memes en otros idiomas?
I don't remember really remember this but there was apparently also a debate around whether bathing was environmentally friendly going on around the same time