On Lemmy these viral things consume the site for about 3ish days every few months, then fade into lore. The first one I was here for was when were were all obsessed with not pooping for 3 days. There were the beans. There was a longer one where almost every post on the site was some reference to Saddam Hussein's spider hole. There was a period where every upvoted post had to contain one or more black cats.

You must not have been here for the beans

I need to survive for three days without pooping.

The guy who used a thermal camera on his toilet water before and after pooping yesterday was pretty magical

The guy who wanted to not poop for 3 days.

I think some of the great ones people are mentioning here can be found on !bestoflemmy@lemmy.world

Edit: yeah there is an awesome index of the poop challenge + memes in this post: https://sopuli.xyz/post/915164

Edit 2: damnit the poop posts were deleted... But the memes are there

There was the "How can I hold my poop for three days" post. That one got pretty big

the shitposting on Reddit is almost entirely alt-right now

!lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

Idk go to reddit its still up somehow

There will never be another shitpost, on any platform, on the same level as the poop knife.