Now all these f*ing zoomers are telling me that I'm out of touch!? ( lemmy.tf ) Englisch

Stirnlappenbasilisk , vor 4 Monaten

That's because the "rule" of !196 is to "post before you leave"... That creates a lot of random posts that all have some kind of "rule" in the title. Sometimes these posts get popular and you see them in your feed.

PM_Your_Nudes_Please , vor 4 Monaten

For the curious, the original was actually /r/195 on Reddit. It started as a joke between some college roommates, in dorm room number 195. Then it eventually got popular as a sort of shitposting community. But the original 195 was basically unmoderated (because it was just a couple of dudes in college who started it for shiggles,) and was eventually brigaded and taken over by alt-right neonazis. The memes quickly devolved into straight up Nazi propaganda.

So 196 was created as a sort of “new” 195, and that original brigade and subsequent takeover is why a lot of the 196 memes tend to lean hard left. The 196 sub was sort of a rebellion against the 195 takeover, which means that conservative stuff quickly got shut down. It eventually became a sort of safe space for transgender memes as a result. From there it became a sort of self-sustaining reaction where trans people saw it as safe so more trans people gravitated towards it.

unmarketableplushie , vor 4 Monaten

I'm pretty sure neo-Nazis weren't the reason r/195 shut down. It was just that after 420 weeks the owners decided to end "the experiment".

I wasn't on Reddit then though, so I wouldn't know.

Silentiea , vor 4 Monaten

Curious where you got your take if you weren't even on reddit? I never heard any of this before, was it, like, in the news or something?

lath , vor 4 Monaten

The respective person wasn't on reddit then, likely was after, just in time to read the archives.

unmarketableplushie , vor 4 Monaten

Hey there you could've taken two seconds to read my profile and seen I have my pronouns listed there instead of just misgendering me