I’m glad people are active, but why are the most upvoted memes things from years ago? Bots? Users desperate for content?
Imagine caring about how old or new memes are.
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.
Why are you from 5-10 years ago?
Because literally everyone on Lemmy is 35
That must be why I like it more here.
Memes used to be funny
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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.
Yeah bring back overly attached girlfriend and winning baby!
And Doge before crypto ruined it.
Vintage memes are comfy
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! 🌈
Engagement and interaction >> content.
We have hundreds of bots posting into the void on Lemmy. People want to interact with other people
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I would guess there’s not a lot of zoomers here.
Well, for me, it’s because the only meme group I’m even semi active in is explicitly for old memes :)
Controversial opinion perhaps, but I think because in general humans aren’t funny and they don’t really have anything new to add to anything. Babies love to see the same joke a million times, it never stops being funny to them, but it’s something that only changes a little as we age and not as much as we would think to think about ourselves.
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.
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!
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??
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.Classic memes, so old some people still called em image macros.
