What is /c/196, and why does it show up so much on All

SeaOtter@lemmy.ca to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 169 points –

Their sidebar appears to be intentionally vague. It is overwhelmingly low quality memes.

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History wise

195 was a college dorm of a few friends who made a reddit sub to share memes with each other

Over time the sub grew really fast and became a major shitposting sub. I dont remember if it was while 196 was still around or after it shut down, but r/196 was made and became pro lgbt while 195 was kinda a cesspool. The guy running 195 shut it down because they were no longer dorming together or talking, and it was becoming hard to manage a huge sub alone with so many people posting hateful crap

196 became the weird trans femboy lgbt shitpost sub

197 popped up because people didnt like the lgbt stuff and it kinda became more like 195

196 moved here but a lot of people jumping to lemmy havent actually interacted with 196 before do theyre just posting whatever whenever

That's a great explanation. I love the idea of having an "internet historian" (other than the actual internet historian, who really doesn't talk the origins of the internet). I guess there's the meme databases but still, this is a great read.

Yeah, what's up with Internet Historian's more recent videos? When I first found the dude, he literally did just do history about internet stuff. Now it all just seems like half hour long shit posts with no real info about anything in particular. Just strings of "lol so random" type humor.

The main channel is mostly still kind of an internet history. Concordia was an obvious outlier though. But yeah all of his other stuff is basically just him creating whatever he wants with his friends. Humor for me is kinda hit or miss.

You should watch only "Internet Historian" channel, he has alternate channels and those are of mixed quality (all far weaker). I avoid Incognito Mode like the plague, yet he links that channel off his main channel constantly

Oh thanks. I used to see them pop up on Reddit and never really got what it was about.

What's missing from this description is that the main rule of that sub/community is that you can't leave without posting something, hence all the "rule" memes.

I was apart of r/196, I never knew there was earlier iterations, I thought it was just a drop a meme and go style place. this is actually interesting.

I wish I could give you an award

Cut that shit out. Just thank them and move on, awards were useless trinkets that fed the spezmachine