One of those is not like the rest and doesn't truly deserve to be on the list – "username checks out". All the others provide absolutely no value, while "username checks out", at least, lets you notice a potential humorous situation which you might not have noticed otherwise.
The only time my username would have been relevant was under discussions of Glass Onion, as that was the name of the maguffin, but I took a loooong time to watch it and was avoiding any discussions about it because detective story.
I've been on the receiving end of "underrated comment" and I was surprised to learn it's not actually just vapor. You don't usually get comment karma on a post 24+ hours after it's posted, but on the couple of occasions when someone said this about my comment, it started the ball rolling on people reading and upvoting my comment. In other words, apparently it was underrated, because people weren't seeing it.
There's no karma totals on lemmy so who cares, but it was interesting to learn it isn't entirely fluff, it's performing a duty in the comment thread ecosystem.
I hear you, and I'm 100％ ready to, also, but its understandable for people to keep talking about reddit by comparison when lemmy is clearly essentially a reddit clone.
Yeah, there are people on reddit who still talk about Digg. I think this is just what happens. It'll slow down with time, as lemmy gains its own identity.
Sure.. .. and maybe this isn't worth thinking or talking about, but what does that really mean, Lemmy having its own identity, you know?
I began chatting with people on IRC (mIRC up in here, pIRCh losers get lost), and some html chat rooms, ICQ and IM (a/s/l?) then waaay later found myself on some less desireable forums and Digg for a while, and I remmeber when it went south, and remember seeing reddit. I stayed away until the pandemic when google searches started showing reddit thread results and I got sucked in.
What I mean to say, through all of those incarnations of talking to strangers on the internet, I never felt any of them had distinct personalities from any others, other than the slang that people used.
for reddit, it was "username checks out", " this", "TIL" etc etc. I left when every conversation felt the same. Anyway, I dont think I have a point, other than Lemmy is a fedirated reddit clone, and I'm not sure any online community has had an identifiable identity, except from some of the places that everyone just tries to say the shittiest thing they can think of
Not only bitter, lots of people here are dissing reddit like it's a recent ex.
Some of those frequently repeated comments (well not stuff like "this") are completely organic memes that have come out of that community, which most of us were part of, me personally for over a decade. Now we suddenly hate everything we were part of?
I'm kinda tired of the reddit bashing here. I'm not going to leave over it, but it doesn't add any value whereas some of the other content has been excellent.
(Srsly tho, this whole post is a reddit-hates-reddit circle jerk using stale memes from reddit to make fun of stale comments from reddit. It's beat and it stinks like letting someone who doesn't even know you control your emotions.)
I understand why it's not remembered positively, but this is what got me into Reddit. A bunch of dumbasses around the world sharing a sense of humour with other dumbasses on the other side.
It was funny. The threads were hilarious. I had tons of those old threads screenshotted for memories.
It gave Reddit the personality it had. The flawed, annoying, absolutely toxic yet truly remarkable personality it possessed.
I would love for Lemmy to have one of its own but I truly miss the absolute random bullshittery that Reddit had. I see it happen sometimes on Lemmy. And the hope that I'll get that feeling again keeps me on here.
Along the same lines are the "Americans forget that other countries exist" comments.
Does American culture have a problem with ethnocentrism? Generally yes. Is reddit an American website where the vast majority of users, comments, posts, and topics are American? Also yes. When I'd see one of the "you're an arrogant asshole for assuming this post is about the US" comments, I just assumed it's someone being pedantic and contrarian for the sake of it. It just ruins what is sometimes a valid point.
It'd be real nice if someone created a browser addon that auto-downvoted these same comments and puns. With enough users you could wipe out anyone wanting to make the comments when they get 100 down votes just by people with the addon loading the comments section.
Yeah, automatic voting gets dangerously close to automatic censorship and botting.
Also, human language, context and nuance is complicated and the unknown error bar on "correctly flagged posts" scares me. It's not entirely predictable what kind of posts people may make, and accordingly not entirely predictable what the plugin would and wouldn't recognise.
A post chain "Madness?" / "THIS" / "IS" / "SPARTA!" may make sense and be fun in the right context, but the "THIS" comment could get botted to hell.
I only partly agree. The part remembers all those situations where a comment on reddit almost made me spit out my coffee while at work because I found it truly hilarious
Crack = freebasing cocaine = base.
Bay Area rapper Lil B used to be insulted by people who called him "based", essentially meaning crackhead. He reappropriated it to mean outspokenly being yourself while actively disregarding what anybody else thinks, and started also going by Based God. That's it.
Which was originally used on the internet as a replacement/slang for "best" but apparently I am the only one who remembers that. Everyone seems to think it started as the cringelord PCM shit, but it absolutely meant "best" for years before that.
It definitely meant crackhead in hip-hop too, but it had a double meaning of "best" as well. Based God = best crackhead god.
EDIT: Don't know why this is being downvoted to hell, especially as this comment isn't tagged 'edited on', demonstrating I put this 'edit' in the comment immediately upon posting so UPDOOT ME WAAAAH.
This!
Edit: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!
Take my upvote!
Take my poor man's gold 🥇
I don't miss gold, and I forgot about it being a thing until now.
Remember how they took silver, a free joke gift, and monetized it?
Remember how they took gold awards, a user made bot, and monetized it?
It's actually a nice way to fund a server, then Reddit shit our 200 different type of it and downgrade "gilding" to just mid tier award.
Gosh I hate award speech edits
Edit: wow! thanks for the upvotes! my most upvoted comment is about female ejaculation...oh well!
This but unironically
Accurate.
One of those is not like the rest and doesn't truly deserve to be on the list – "username checks out". All the others provide absolutely no value, while "username checks out", at least, lets you notice a potential humorous situation which you might not have noticed otherwise.
Good point.
Edit: ahh, I mean: Underrated Comment.
The real LPT are in the comments
Username doesn't check out.
Sadly, I was born with uncheck outable username disorder.
Same
The only time my username would have been relevant was under discussions of Glass Onion, as that was the name of the maguffin, but I took a loooong time to watch it and was avoiding any discussions about it because detective story.
Wouldn't that make you quite unique?
Username checks out!
I've been on the receiving end of "underrated comment" and I was surprised to learn it's not actually just vapor. You don't usually get comment karma on a post 24+ hours after it's posted, but on the couple of occasions when someone said this about my comment, it started the ball rolling on people reading and upvoting my comment. In other words, apparently it was underrated, because people weren't seeing it.
There's no karma totals on lemmy so who cares, but it was interesting to learn it isn't entirely fluff, it's performing a duty in the comment thread ecosystem.
^ Underrared Comment
This
We should probably stop masturbating the dead horse.
No. But I’m down to stop talking about Reddit if you want
This is what I don't get. I feel like one of the main things I see here is talk about reddit. Ffs, move on
I hear you, and I'm 100％ ready to, also, but its understandable for people to keep talking about reddit by comparison when lemmy is clearly essentially a reddit clone.
Yeah, there are people on reddit who still talk about Digg. I think this is just what happens. It'll slow down with time, as lemmy gains its own identity.
Sure.. .. and maybe this isn't worth thinking or talking about, but what does that really mean, Lemmy having its own identity, you know?
I began chatting with people on IRC (mIRC up in here, pIRCh losers get lost), and some html chat rooms, ICQ and IM (a/s/l?) then waaay later found myself on some less desireable forums and Digg for a while, and I remmeber when it went south, and remember seeing reddit. I stayed away until the pandemic when google searches started showing reddit thread results and I got sucked in.
What I mean to say, through all of those incarnations of talking to strangers on the internet, I never felt any of them had distinct personalities from any others, other than the slang that people used.
for reddit, it was "username checks out", " this", "TIL" etc etc. I left when every conversation felt the same. Anyway, I dont think I have a point, other than Lemmy is a fedirated reddit clone, and I'm not sure any online community has had an identifiable identity, except from some of the places that everyone just tries to say the shittiest thing they can think of
The apps blurring the lines between the two platforms don't help too lol
The apps blurring the line never mattered... The platform itself is designed almost entirely around how reddit is/was.
Y’all ultra butthurt over a shitpost in c/memes?!
This!
Take my upvote!
And my toaster!
And my axe!
I also choose this guys dead axe
this
based
Username checks out
What he said
I also choose this guy's dead complaints.
"r/woooosh"
Wasn't it r/wooosh?
r/itswooooshwith4os
r/wooooosh :)
found the mobile user.
No u didn't 🤭
r/wosh
r/YourJokeButWorse
"/r/subsifellfor" and "/r/subsithoughtifellfor"
I like those comments. Most funny posts become even funnier because of the comment section.
You people sound really bitter tbh.
based
On what?
usually cocaine.
Underrated comment right here
This
R/beatmetoit
::: spoiler spoiler
r/beatmeattoit
R/foundthemobileuser
That ^
oh sooooo much more funnierrr
Not only bitter, lots of people here are dissing reddit like it's a recent ex.
Some of those frequently repeated comments (well not stuff like "this") are completely organic memes that have come out of that community, which most of us were part of, me personally for over a decade. Now we suddenly hate everything we were part of?
I'm kinda tired of the reddit bashing here. I'm not going to leave over it, but it doesn't add any value whereas some of the other content has been excellent.
I can't wait until the bitter people find out that these reddit behaviors are actually just human behaviors. Let people enjoy themselves.
Redditors have always hated Redditors! You think we're going to stop just because we left Reddit?!?
This!
williegroundskeeper.jpeg
Literally 1984.
Based and comedy pilled.
This.
(Srsly tho, this whole post is a reddit-hates-reddit circle jerk using stale memes from reddit to make fun of stale comments from reddit. It's beat and it stinks like letting someone who doesn't even know you control your emotions.)
Based
Take my upvote
Same
I also want to fuck the shit out of this guy's dead wife
(I can't remember how it went verbatim sozzle)
And my axe
Google en passant
same
Username checks out.
Based
I also choose this guys wife.
Fuck around and find out!
Have my updoot....and my axe.
Edit: my top comment is about axe body spray.
Edit 2: thanks for the gold kind stranger
Edit 3: my inbox has really blown up.
Include me in the screenshot but do X.
Rip inbox
V I N T A G E
love it.
I also choose this guy's dead wife
Based
This
Based
Underrated comment
Take my upvote goddamnit
I can't afford gold but have this 🎖
![email protected]
I understand why it's not remembered positively, but this is what got me into Reddit. A bunch of dumbasses around the world sharing a sense of humour with other dumbasses on the other side.
It was funny. The threads were hilarious. I had tons of those old threads screenshotted for memories.
It gave Reddit the personality it had. The flawed, annoying, absolutely toxic yet truly remarkable personality it possessed.
I would love for Lemmy to have one of its own but I truly miss the absolute random bullshittery that Reddit had. I see it happen sometimes on Lemmy. And the hope that I'll get that feeling again keeps me on here.
Understandable, have a nice day
No u
Based
Underrated comment
This.
Truly the bassiest of the bassies.
THIS
underrated comment
Based
Second that
Third that
Someone did, once. He was having a stroke tho.
This
is...
Patrick.
I never understood why anyone would upvote these comments, or why no sub (that I know of) banned them.
"This"
so much THIS
Username checks out.
Google en passant.
Holy hell!
Worryingly old response got rereleased
Kilroy was here.
if i knew that my comment about koalas fucking a tree wouod be my most upvotrd comment i wouldnt have beleuevd it
I'm gonna get down voted to hell for this buuuuut... *completely reasonable comment
YTA his dog his rules
NTA Dogs make for great stew if he shares.
If you’re looking to cut him off ... no.
Some habits are best left behind. I'd like to see Lemmy continue to set quality above quantity instead of bow to social trends.
∆ this right here.
The addition of the delta symbol is exactly the kind of creativity we need around here. I'd give you Lemmy silver if I could afford it.
∆
∆∆
Ooh, so much razzle dazzle and minimalism at once
thank you for the delta symbol kind stranger
New$#&@ can't triforce
Perfection. 'Chef's kiss'
based
Take my upvote
Yes officer, this comment right here
The real comment is always in the comments!
These are bad but God forgive the massgrave of uncreativity that is Yotube comments
First
Second
First
Second
As someone who makes YouTube comments, I can confirm that this is a 100% true.
Came here to say this.
*Edit: thank you kind stranger!
He came
Alas, I have but only one upvote to give
Same
Same tbh
Python people be like: self.
New meme just dropped
Actual meme
I will say Reddit and lemmy are the only sites where comments genuinely make me laugh sometimes
God this comment section is giving me a headache. Well done, folks.
This
Holy hell
New response just dropped
actual zombie
Does anyone else think, "Holy hell", or is it just me? I'm very curious. Please explain.
Has anyone ever said that reddit comments are always creative?
Really confused by these "no one ever said redditors are creative" comments. No one ever said that no one ever said that.
Don't overthink it.
I have no idea what you're trying to say with this comment.
You are not the first one asking this, so let me explain. This is an old meme and it followed an other meme:
Dumb Patrick: me, creating a meme
Scientific Patrick: me, commenting a meme
And everyone in the comments celebrates the homours and quality comments. And I was like "wtf" and wrote this one.
Edit: Reddit moment (that one was missing)
It'll show up in any internet community eventually, don't worry.
It's almost as if Internet culture is universal.
I kind of miss the kind of gimmick users that made you genuinely say "yeah, the user name does check out here".
Username checks out can be very funny since it often well… leads to the username and adds another layer of joke.
It needs to fit though of course.
Same
This guy reddit
Also "My time to shine..." or something along those lines implying that they are the expert of current topic
also... TIFU obligatory it wasn't today ... it was actually 1572 years ago
Read comments to see what everyone else is saying. Leave a new comment, definitely not a response, saying the same thing.
And these choice phrases that are guaranteed to add to the conversation.
Along the same lines are the "Americans forget that other countries exist" comments.
Does American culture have a problem with ethnocentrism? Generally yes. Is reddit an American website where the vast majority of users, comments, posts, and topics are American? Also yes. When I'd see one of the "you're an arrogant asshole for assuming this post is about the US" comments, I just assumed it's someone being pedantic and contrarian for the sake of it. It just ruins what is sometimes a valid point.
It's really not though. These comments show up every day
It'd be real nice if someone created a browser addon that auto-downvoted these same comments and puns. With enough users you could wipe out anyone wanting to make the comments when they get 100 down votes just by people with the addon loading the comments section.
Automatically hiding them would be fine, but I personally wouldn't be comfortable with any upvote or downvote automation.
Yeah, automatic voting gets dangerously close to automatic censorship and botting.
Also, human language, context and nuance is complicated and the unknown error bar on "correctly flagged posts" scares me. It's not entirely predictable what kind of posts people may make, and accordingly not entirely predictable what the plugin would and wouldn't recognise.
A post chain "Madness?" / "THIS" / "IS" / "SPARTA!" may make sense and be fun in the right context, but the "THIS" comment could get botted to hell.
Angry updoot
I hate the comments in this thread soooo much.
This
Same
Underrated
"The Narwhal bacons at midnight"
"5/7 with rice"
Same
Underrated comment.
I only partly agree. The part remembers all those situations where a comment on reddit almost made me spit out my coffee while at work because I found it truly hilarious
^ this
Nobody in the history of the Internet has ever said that all redditors are creative with their comments.
Thanks a lot, u/TittyAssHoochyMama
We did it, Lemmy!
Google en passant
"my biggest regret is that I only have one upvote to give. " 🤢
Same
Underrated comment
Literally
You missed "lol", "lmao", and any combination of only emojis.
My sides
👆👆👆
Please tell me what "based" even means so I can misuse it amongst a bunch of 12 year olds and make them fucking stop.
Crack = freebasing cocaine = base.
Bay Area rapper Lil B used to be insulted by people who called him "based", essentially meaning crackhead. He reappropriated it to mean outspokenly being yourself while actively disregarding what anybody else thinks, and started also going by Based God. That's it.
Based and hip-hop history-pilled
I mean, other than ignoring that now people only use it ironically after the far right spammed it out talking about heinous garbage.
They also only used it ironically in the first place, because nobody takes Lil B seriously including Lil B.
Bruh, get real, they didn't know that shit because no one cares about Lil B either.
No, you can't make me. You're not my real dad.
Which was originally used on the internet as a replacement/slang for "best" but apparently I am the only one who remembers that. Everyone seems to think it started as the cringelord PCM shit, but it absolutely meant "best" for years before that.
It definitely meant crackhead in hip-hop too, but it had a double meaning of "best" as well. Based God = best crackhead god.
I believe it's come from "based god", which referred to a god that appeared on earth.
Of course, it's been 10 years since I heard it used in that context, and assuming it hasn't evolved since then may be wrong...
Based and trolling pilled.
Take my upvote ⬆️⬆️⬆️
Based
Based and Spongebob-pilled.
F
Me too thanks
If only
Same
Username checks o.....Samsy? What's a Samsy?
Idk, gamertag chosen 20 years ago. This podhead from the past thought it sounds funny.
fr
Bingo!
Ding ding ding!
Inka-dinka-doo!
You beautiful bastards.
There was a time when Patrick's statement was true. But that was, like, 10 years ago.
So much win in this meme!
This, take my up vote and may I commend you on your user name?
Based.
What is it, JavaScript?
NTA, marry the shit
facebook up, delete the gym, hit your lawyer
Nice
Scary
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something something... he broke both his arms
A thousand times this
Based? Based on what?
Based on the golden ratio.
Same
Member woosh?
Here is my completely reasonable opinion.
EDIT: Don't know why this is being downvoted to hell, especially as this comment isn't tagged 'edited on', demonstrating I put this 'edit' in the comment immediately upon posting so UPDOOT ME WAAAAH.
Let's take this up a few notches: https://youtu.be/Uy9V_v-XV8Q
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I hate it when people start sentences with "I mean...". Shall I do a post too?
This
Take my upvote.
I wish I had the money to gild this
Edit: Downvotes? Really? Have fun in your echo chamber
Only mostly happy?
I fucked up my bad english again, right? How about: "Something we left behind (mostly)"
Just offering some pedantic advice concealed in a joke, also grammar nazism is very Reddit
Pick your choice:
If ya wanna see funny and clever comments go to pornhub
Overrated
Based comment, take my upvote. Seriously though, just keep scrolling.
Pls like and subscribe
It's almost as if
Something is behind we left mostly happy (this).
Baste
Indeed 😜
Take my upvote
Sir, this is a Wendy's.
Those were fair points TBH.