• HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      It’s less about the amount of text than the way posts are created. As I mentioned in another comment, screenshots are reposts by design whereas memes are supposedly OC, which I find more interesting for meaningful interactions

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, I don’t think anyone is funny enough (or free enough in their lives) to produce enough original memes to keep us all engaged for much longer. For what it’s worth, I’ll stop sharing off site non original memes (which I select for liking) when there’s enough people to populate and have the capability to produce enough original and quality memes. Maybe 50k or 100k. For now we’re eating McDonald’s because nobody here can cook enough for everyone.

        As long as people like stuff posted from other places even if it’s not pure meme form, I think it’s vital for now.

        If you tried to make an only pure and original memes on here for now, and would police it as such, I bet you’d get less than 5/day which would render it virtually dead.

        In time, there will be better and/original memes but the newcomers have to have something to sink their teeth into.

        Stuff like this happens: