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[–] parmesan@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Every single comment thread on anything that reaches r/all quickly devolving into the most unfunny and unoriginal jokes and/or references. Regardless of how grim/serious the original post was.

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[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

Charging developers for API access after they go out of their way to make products that greatly improve the experience.

[–] Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Edit: Thanks for the upvotes!

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

edit: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!

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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Novelty/troll accounts. I've seen a lot of them pop up on Reddit over the years. The most infamous one I remember was one called Gradual_****** (yes, the n-word) that would type out ordinary replies that would gradually switch to ebonics.

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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Karma-farming. Please lets just be our genuine, authentic, awful selves.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It helps that we have no karma. Also, some instances bouncing downvotes helps a bit.

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[–] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] notastatist@feddit.org 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Thats already here.

edit: don't know why I was downvoted, its literally a lemmy feature.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 18 hours ago

They are, I wish them sometimes when I know the person. It's quite nice

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

don’t know why I was downvoted

I'm convinced there are people out there that just downvote everything. They get some kind of chemical release in their brains when they hit the downvote button. You could say "being happy feels good" and someone out there will downvote it.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would say they just fat-fingered it. hopefully.

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[–] CarnivorousCouch@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

All the tired puns or jokes about Nazis/Hitler. "Anne Frankly, I did Nazi that coming!" "You gotta hand it to Hitler, at least he killed Hitler." Etc.

It's the kind of thing you might chuckle at once, but so many comment threads end up piled with the same brain rot nonsense as people trip over themselves to parrot their quirky internet catchphrases.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Those are like pronoun and vegan "jokes"; maybe the first or second one is funny, but they get unfunny FAST.

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Pronoun jokes are almost never funny, especially in the current political environment. Especially if cishet folks are making them. The exceptions are few and far between.

[–] Pronell@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So I think I have a good one, actually.

That's what they said.

That's it, really, an inclusive update on an old stupid joke.

I suspect I'm still the only one to find it funny.

[–] QualifiedKitten@discuss.online 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I actually found myself tempted to say exactly that earlier today. Someone said something about sucking, and my initial instinct was, "That's what she said!", but then I thought about the audience and felt like the gender neutral "they" might be more appropriate, but I wasn't really sure, so instead I said nothing.

[–] Pronell@lemmy.world 0 points 16 hours ago

That's why it's fun, at least to me.

You snap out of the conversation and go over the permutations. It's funnier that way.

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Ha dig it. Could see that really hitting in certain context

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[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Being a jerk and the hive mind

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The hive mind might already be here, depending on who you ask. I was already left/progressive, though, so it just feels like hanging out with like-minded people.

Jerks I can do without, but they’re unavoidable. Simply not engaging with them seems to work best.

[–] Parsizzle@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (11 children)

I feel like to a point it might be, but to a point in today's age and internet - everything is an echo chamber so it's turned into a "pick ypur poison" kind of thing.

That being said, open discourse and actual conversation seems more prevalent and easier to come by here then on reddit which is very nice.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

True.

Plus, I had forgotten how much I missed actual conversation!

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[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 0 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yep the pure nastiness hasn't crossed over thank fuck

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Just commenting 'this' to show an agreement.

[–] vvilld@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Should have known........

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[–] Oberyn@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)
  • Peops being unnecessarily confrontational towards each other till entire screen just lines
  • Stupid stock phrases (man of culture|cake day|kind stranger|calling up votes "updꝏts"|.*)
  • Crappy bots with no real utility replying to random comments
  • Rudeness to light mode users , r/chargeyourphone
  • Ableist subs like ⦅system|fakedisorder)cringe|illnessfakers|raisedbyn●●●●●●●●●s|BPDlovedones|.*)
  • Rage bait posts like that one cake AITA post (no way it's real)
  • Karma requirements for subs like r/assistance . Dear god fckin HOPE karma dœsn't get added to lemmy …

Already answered similar thread to this one 2 yrs ago , but threadiverse changed somewhat since then . Had different answers some of them already made their way here since , so gave different answers this time

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 1 points 15 hours ago

I dunno I've met guys as douchey as frosting guy

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Did you just give a regex as an example of the subreddit names?

[–] Oberyn@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yes . The ".*" what I use to mean "etc"

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[–] vvilld@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I'm not a fan of 'starter packs'

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[–] BroiledShit@reddthat.com 8 points 1 day ago

All that wholesome keanu chungus shit, wholesome 100.

[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Buncha reddit cringe like:

"The narwhal bacons at midnight" "Owling"

I cannot abide that shit.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What was the whole narwhal thing?

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a code phrase to identify other Redditors in real life. If you ask someone, "When does the narwhal bacon?" they answer, "At midnight." Then you both know you are part of the cool secret Reddit club.

It started in this thread. A user was bored at an airport and tried to identify other traveling Reddit users for fun.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/98mm8/hey_reddit_im_redditing_from_the_denver/

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

Wow, thats like a much worse version of the tumblr shoelaces.

[–] theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"whyyyy are you sorting by new???????

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ironic, considering people sorting by new are almost neccessary for voting to work.

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