I’m not trying to hate on the “old memes” in any way, but what happened to all the meme content on Lemmy being made before the last few days?
Is there a community/instance everyone shifted to? Did I miss something or did the original posters really just stop posting?
Lemmy trends burn bright and fast.
It was memes, then beans, now antique memes and next week it’ll be something new. People will be looking back on this fondly, I’m sure.
Nuked memes next week
So, that’s kinda just how meme culture works in larger communities. It’s extremely iterative. What happened is all those old posters are still around, they just switched to making content using older templates, and reminiscing about their favorites of the past.
This is a pretty big wave, this isn’t beans or something, this took over almost the whole Lemmyverse, so it’ll probably leave a minor lingering popularity. My guess is it should mostly be passed in another couple days or so, when people start running a little lower on content. The number of good ones is large, but fundamentally finite.
Meme culture is less the standard human-herd behavior and something quicker and more unitary. It’s best visualized as a huge flock of birds or school of fish. Who’s in charge and where is it going? No clue. It’s going there though.
