Idk but I blocked one on lemmy because it was a bunch of whining about tankies with memes pretty much exactly like the above, in both reasoning and format. I don’t even know what they think a tankie is; I could never figure it out from the context or comments.
Tankie is a straw man intended to deride a people with left leaning political views who don’t accept western neoliberalism; effectively engendering peer pressure against anyone from espousing non neoliberalism.
It’s a total mess. I believe the original 196 (i forgot the instance) was a spin-off from reddit. At some point, it ended up on blahaj, where I first encountered it. For the last year or so, it’s basically been a meme channel barely above shitposts but often with a lot of trans memes.
Then recently the mod just unilaterally tried to “move” the community by locking up the blahaj instance and opening a new 196 on .world. The community backlashed, someone started onehundredninetysix and people spammed it heavily for a few days. Then, I believe, the old mod reopened the blahaj one or the admins gave it to someone else or… I dunno, my attention span for lemmy drama runs put around this point.
tl;dr, a bunch of mod drama has resulted in no less than 3 different 196 communities all of which are basically meme communities with low standards.
What’s the beef with 196? Is it reddit’s 196 or did they manage to infect lemmy somehow?
Idk but I blocked one on lemmy because it was a bunch of whining about tankies with memes pretty much exactly like the above, in both reasoning and format. I don’t even know what they think a tankie is; I could never figure it out from the context or comments.
Tankie is a straw man intended to deride a people with left leaning political views who don’t accept western neoliberalism; effectively engendering peer pressure against anyone from espousing non neoliberalism.
It’s a total mess. I believe the original 196 (i forgot the instance) was a spin-off from reddit. At some point, it ended up on blahaj, where I first encountered it. For the last year or so, it’s basically been a meme channel barely above shitposts but often with a lot of trans memes.
Then recently the mod just unilaterally tried to “move” the community by locking up the blahaj instance and opening a new 196 on .world. The community backlashed, someone started onehundredninetysix and people spammed it heavily for a few days. Then, I believe, the old mod reopened the blahaj one or the admins gave it to someone else or… I dunno, my attention span for lemmy drama runs put around this point.
tl;dr, a bunch of mod drama has resulted in no less than 3 different 196 communities all of which are basically meme communities with low standards.
oh god there’s 3 of them!!! 🤦
There’s a 196 on Blahaj (or at least there was, there was a whole thing about moving to .world, but idk)