I was scrolling through top/day, and all the memes are criticizing America. Oil memes and stuff like that. Why is that (not the memes in themselves, but the near unanimousness of the themes)?

    • Cinner@lemmy.worldB
      62·
      11 months ago

      Yeah, say what you want about reddit, at least they had systems in place to detect and shadowban divisive and harmful propaganda. That is very clearly not the case on Lemmy.

  • FMT99@lemmy.world
    23·
    11 months ago

    Haven’t seen it myself but because Lemmy has a relatively small user base it’s fairly easy to just flood it with content and have a significant portion show up on the front page. If you’re seeing a sudden influx of a specific type of meme, my guess is that’s just someone sending a lot of the same kind of content ar once.

  • amio@kbin.social
    192·
    11 months ago

    I thought most of them were from the same guy. One or two were mildly funny, but posting basically the same joke a dozen times in a row is arguably not how to make it shine. Also, a couple people might have heard the ol’ “DAE le USA le oil eggs dee” before.

    • 567PrimeMover@kbin.social
      13·
      11 months ago

      When I first noticed the memes, I looked at the account making them and it was less than a day old. I just figured they had an axe to grind or it was an election season bot and blocked the account, lol.

    • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Why don’t people get that posting a million memes about the same thing in a row gets tiring? I don’t give a shit about what the subject is, just space them out or something.

      A couple of America and oil memes? Funny. 10 nearly identical copies of a meme in a row? Starts to get grating.

  • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    93·
    11 months ago

    I don’t really know, but I enjoy the topical rants we go on, whether it’s beans, stroganoff or whatever - it’s fun.

    The oil shit has mostly been on point though

    • Candelestine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      84·
      11 months ago

      For the record, the US has been oil independent for around the past 10ish years or so, since our fracking boom. We’re still vulnerable to global price fluctuations, but when it comes to strategic necessity, we don’t actually need overseas oil, and probably never will again.

      So, it was fairly accurate propaganda at one point, about 20ish years ago perhaps, but things do tend to change given enough time.

  • Omega_Haxors
    51·
    11 months ago

    It’s probably that one nazbol guy who spams crappy “left” memes who I blocked awhile ago because i’m not seeing anything like that.

    EDIT: I also have LW and HB instance blocked (as i’m banned from both) which probably has a lot to do with it as well.

  • pop
    109·
    11 months ago

    USA does bad things

    Some people make memes about it

    People in the USA:

    Let’s make our country accountable for bad thing it does

    What’s happening? My fee fees are hurt.

    Or the most popular:

    We don’t even think about your country

    Then they call others snowflakes. ㄟ(ツ)ㄏ

    Aren’t you folks supposed to be all for “freedom of expression” or something. Oh right… that’s only when youre the one spewing the bullshit.

    • dacreator@lemmy.world
      3·
      11 months ago

      Who’s they? A population of 300 million people? The USA is large and diverse, it can’t be simplied in the way you’re describing just like the EU couldn’t. Social media and meme propaganda doesn’t represent a country and it’s people.

  • ARk@lemm.ee
    1319·
    11 months ago

    Because haha america bad. Everyone knows that this is equivalent to breathing air on the internet

    • thecrotch@sh.itjust.works
      34·
      11 months ago

      The “america bad” people have a point. The “america bad, Europe good” people are delusional. The US would have to last another 3000 years to even come close to the atrocities committed by Europeans.

        • thecrotch@sh.itjust.works
          33·
          11 months ago

          I thought someone might go that route, so I came prepared. Even if we ignore Russia (located in Asia but absolutely culturally European) europeans have been responsible for no less than 6 genocides in the last hundred years.

            • thecrotch@sh.itjust.works
              1·
              10 months ago

              Tell that to the redditor types constantly making US vs europe comparisons. It’s either a monolith or it’s not, not just when it’s convenient.