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I'm glad people are active, but why are the most upvoted memes things from years ago? Bots? Users desperate for content?

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[-] Pirky@lemmy.world 83 points 1 year ago

I believe it started out as a joke to post ancient memes. And then it just took off and people kept posting them.

That and like most other people said: on average there are older people here, so they relate to the memes of yore.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I might be to blame for some of that shit. I started !antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world a few months ago, then it blew up and started covering c/all, then it spread like herpes to the other meme communities.

Shit has died way down since that one weird week.

[-] yyyesss@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

thank you for your service 🫡

[-] Sabata11792@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

on average there are older people here, so they relate to the memes of yore.

Old memes remind me of when I had the normal amount of sad and existential dread.

[-] Fal@yiffit.net 65 points 1 year ago

Because literally everyone on Lemmy is 35

[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago

That must be why I like it more here.

[-] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I'm a decade older, but I feel like a lot of people who left for Lemmy were active on Reddit 10-12 years ago, and have preference for the flavor of discourse of that time. As it grew, reddit became far too sarcastically meta in a lot of ways. What was once a spicy "in joke" became boilerplate. I'm not surprised at the exhumation of the old memes. It may just be a phase of some sort, a necessary reset, who knows?

[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago
[-] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

35 is a very young age that people in their 40ies like me envy the youth of.

[-] Ferris@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago

Nah, you're two years off.

Or, more likely, my parents managed to hide two years of my life from me.

That's awful sneaky of them.

[-] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yours, too?!

Damn them! Stealing our years with the expectation they'll get to enjoy them. Not in the cheapest retirement home Florida can offer!

[-] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Aww shucks, thanks. I'm actually 40 but people say I look younger since I went on a diet.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 45 points 1 year ago

Reddit used to be good, we just reliving the good old day of Reddit.

Serious answer: why not? There's no expiring date on meme. If it convey the funny then there's nothing wrong with using old meme. Renewing meme for renewing sake is boring.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 16 points 1 year ago

Yeah bring back overly attached girlfriend and winning baby!

[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

And Doge before crypto ruined it.

[-] danque@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Fair, but trollface and ffffffuuuuu are expired however.

[-] pleb_maximus@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

I could use some trollface every now and then.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 5 points 1 year ago

Trollface is quite a defining meme tbh, it's a symbol for trolling. The rest however....

[-] onlyhalfminotaur@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Because comedy changes.

[-] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

I think lemmy skews a lot older than reddit, we are reliving our internet youth

[-] rosymind@leminal.space 9 points 1 year ago

I'll be 40 in a few months. I think for people who grew up at the beginning of the internet, we know how much things can change and how quickly.

My guess is that we're less willing to put up with bs changes, and more willing to move on because we know something's popularity doesn't neccrsarily make it the best choice.

I think that by adulthood into mid-life and older, adults care less about what their friends are using and more about how well things work for them. That's certainly the case for me

[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

I assumed it's because Lemmy has more users over 30. I think most of the younger people are still hoping in vain that Reddit will stop being horrible. I imagine they'll be here soon enough lol

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[-] rbos@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago

Classic memes, so old some people still called em image macros.

[-] chameleon@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago
[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago
[-] Teon@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

Because no one had time during the covid lockdown years to make new memes. Everyone was making bread, decluttering and buying new PJ's.
And now the economy is too expensive to pay for new memes.

[-] mvirts@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Old people, like me 😹

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 year ago

Vintage memes are comfy

[-] GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Because we are mostly people from the corpse of reddit, and reddit was nothing but reposts of 10 year old memes?

[-] moipe@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Maybe I am mistaken, but aren't "new memes" people reposting their twitter crap and hoping for better luck? The AI memes are getting pretty good, if those are what counts as new memes and what I think new memes are are actually older then idk.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because the hot new meme is old memes.

[-] EnderMB@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Well, if it's content, I don't really give a fuck, to be honest. Lemmy needs more engagement, and if that means posting 20 years of memes in a 2 year time period, let's see some nyan cat! 🌈

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 1 year ago

Engagement and interaction >> content.

We have hundreds of bots posting into the void on Lemmy. People want to interact with other people

[-] XbSuper@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I would love to see old memes, where are you finding them? All I see are the shitty stock photo memes lately, and it sucks.

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Uh, Lemmy isn’t really big on memes (except over at c/Risa on startrek.website — their Star Trek meme game is on point!), so the old memes are partly satire for those of us that are older than memes and mostly make fun of them. With old memes. It’s complicated.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 7 points 1 year ago

I feel like it's kind of the same in other meme communities like 9gag and reddit. Reposts upon reposts upon reposts, with the occasional funny new thing.

Topical meme communities are sometimes a bit better with this.

[-] Damaskox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

And sometimes a meme doesn't age. Sometimes, old sayings can still work wonders in new situations. Sometimes even better than what a new one would.

I don't think old needs to be reinnovated just because it's old. I enjoy many old things!

[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

This isn't really the community for that kind of question. You'd probably get better replies on NoStupidQuestions. That being said, ive definitely noticed the same thing. No real answer here, but it is a weird quirk with the Lemmy community. Stock photo memes? Seriously? Is this circa 2018 r/youdontsurf??

[-] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Well, for me, it's because the only meme group I'm even semi active in is explicitly for old memes :)

[-] newtraditionalists@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Imagine caring about how old or new memes are.

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Why are you from 5-10 years ago?

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

We are avoiding copyrights

[-] SamXavia@kbin.run 1 points 1 year ago

It's probably due to the selecting 'Most Popular' meaning that it only finds the most upvoted thing on the instance. Instances as well as the Fediverse have grown so much adding more and more content over time but that does not always mean that everyone sees that one meme anymore making more modern posts have less traction. (At least from what I can think)

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