What does it mean?!
According to an unsourced claim on Wikipedia, “repetition is the essential comedic device”
Yep. 196 communities are getting pretty highly upvoted too which is why you’re seeing them so much when browsing all.
I mean they’re also one of the main meme communities atm. Most of the other ones don’t have near as much traffic
I mean, there’s !memes@lemmy.ml
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=r%2F196
I only knew because someone else explained it a few days ago
I thought I also saw, at some point, a post saying the only rule was your post had to have “rule” somewhere in the title. (Probably in response to people making their required one post and already putting rule in the title). And after that I feel like I saw a lot more posts with rule in the title.
Communities usually named 195 or 196 have a rule that if you go there you have to post something. So people will post something and title it “Rule.” And it leads to a bunch of low effort crap posts.
Just block any 195 and 196 communites to save your feed from getting overwhelmed with bad posts.
Even though, I am no fun of low effort content, there is so few active community that it’s a bit refreshing to see content, even low effort, also they spread to much over Lemmy, that looks like it’ll contaminate lemmy’s culture which is great to become something else than redditfugees
There is a community called 196, their only rule is to post something before leaving.
Rule 34
What’s the history behind the 195/196 name?
