edit: now it’s a meme and we can all hug in the comments.
Who are these people who upvote posts but never comments, top comment right now has 21 score and the post has 212, thats such an abusrd ratio, is it just a hexbear thing that this is surprising to me?
I think it kind of is. Hexbear folks love to post and engage more directly with each other based on what I’ve seen while a lot of people (myself for included) clearly take a much more passive approach and just up vote and move on. My excuse is generally I usually only come on here when bored and have nothing else to fill my time with and I find commenting to be personally kind of exhausting now days.
I think downvotes produce participation anxiety and Hexbear not only doesn’t have them but also promotes a not-giving-a-fuck mentality to posting.
Last time I saw any research about it down votes make people angry with eacother and fight. Which is good for Engagement if you want ad money. Bad for the culture though
turns out not having downvotes is good for our culture
Thats fair enough, thanks for your perspective!
When they could be playing Pathfinder? I think not!
Sure.
Those same people could also accept criticism of all of the above (regarding D&D, I won’t just accept criticism of the game system, I will join in and rant for hours about what a hot mess 4th Edition was) without tying it to their identities to the point of getting enraged when consumer products (or the means used to make them) are criticized as if it is an attack on themselves.
The problem here is that all of these people have turned their consumer choices into their identities and thus they feel personally attacked whenever they hear criticism of the products they consume.
It’s incredibly unhealthy and something everyone should work to weed out of their mindset if they want to grow as a person instead of being perpetually unhappy because others criticising things isn’t going anywhere.
I’m fine with this as long as you acceot that “Hawaiian pizza” is an abomination
You have fallen for whatever marketing department propaganda this pineapple war is
Wrong, it’s delicious. The Hawaiians got it right.
Hawaiians had absolutely nothing to do with it. A Greek guy in Canada made it up.
They’re an honorary Hawaiian.
Pineapples are south American. It’s a rascism thing
One of the islands is majority owned by dole and is one of the largest pineapple farms in the world.
Fuck dole and monopolies but “saying pineapples are from Hawaii is racist” is dumb as shit
Thr plant is native to South America. Dole sold them as Hawaiian so they could charge more. Same thing with dragon fruit. It is also south American but they gave it an Asian theme so it sounds fancy and they can charge extra. Really basically every good plant came from the America’s but we associate then with some fancier place. Tomatoes, Italy. Potatoes? Ireland. You and I both know if we called spaghetti Mexican fusion they wouldn’t be able to charge half what they do for it at the olive garden.
Same with coconuts. They are associated with Hawaiian and Caribbean cultures when in fact they’re native to South Asia and the Austronesian islands.
Nah, some Canadian Greek guy invented Australia’s most popular pizza, the hawaiian pizza
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I found my tiny shriveled flower of joy in being a hater. Today’s target: people who upvoted this garbage. The fuck is wrong with you? It’s not a meme and it’s not funny, it doesn’t belong on this community, and it’s so sanctimonious it gave me diarrhea.
Tomorrow’s target: people who push all their furniture up against the wall
Thursday’s target: Scots
Upvoted Taddington. Hope ur ok hun
Read up on the climate effects of eating avocado
Read up on the climate effects of eating beef
If I don’t eat beef, there’s not much incentive to create better alternatives so that I don’t.
Lmao are you unironically saying you’re doing the right thing eating beef because you’re creating incentive to make you stop eating beef?
That’s the joke.
Read up on ‘whataboutism’
Yeah that’s the thing I’m pointing out dude
Well I’m pointing out that I was responding to something actually mentioned in the post
Yee Avocado is expensive for a reason. Takes an absurd amount of water to grow.
Requiring a lot of water to grow something isn’t inherently problematic. The issues only come in when wealthy landowners steal drinking water during drought conditions to grow things. When it comes down to brass tacks, the cartels are more of an issue with avocado production (and actually one of the bigger reasons they are expensive).
All that to say, it doesn’t really matter in the end. If you enjoy your avocados and can afford them, have at it. We’re all doomed to be crushed under the cloven hooves of our billionaire gods anyway.
Obligatory “what about bottled water/hoa/golf industries?”
Almonds too
Nowhere near as bad as meat and dairy. So you’re vegan, right? Otherwise saying this would be hypocritical.
It’s possible for two things to be bad
But if you still eat meat and die on the hill of avocados being bad for the planet then you’re a hypocrite. If you truly believe both things can be bad then practice what you preach brother
Actually, stealing is bad, so I can get away with murdering as many people as I want because at least I’m not a thief.
Circle of life?
Read up on deez nutz
Every time you eat an avocado, a baby seal dies.
Not funny.
Not a meme.
You’re 100% right. But I’ve seen comics and tweets do well here, so this post isn’t going against the norm
yes I posted stuff that doesn’t fit the community but everyone else is doing it
The community of users collectively decides what does and doesn’t belong here
It’s called “Memes” dude, you post memes here.
Yep. Came for the memes. Unsubscribed for the other shit.
If there was some other place to post that would get the same traction I’d gladly put it there. But its not really that big of a deal at the end of the day
But it will be (already noticeable), people post whatever, people upvote blindly and we end up having a meme community without memes and we were already at low quality so it just keeps getting lower.
I know people crave upvotes for some reason, but this only makes a community lame and worth ignoring.
Quality needs to be enforced, I know “funny” is subjective but everyone can see this is not a meme so it shouldn’t even be here.
Approximately 99% of stuff that gets posted here are not memes. I think you’re fighting a losing battle here.
Can we, without relentlessly criticizing, let people have their un-funny, non-memes and screenshots and whatever little harmless things in which they’ve managed to find a tiny shriveled flower of joy?
What are the essential criteria of a meme in your view?
IMHO an idea that spreads person to person, not just PSAs that are unlikely to be shared further.
So the avocado face on the bottom right of this image IS a meme. And if this Tweet turns into a copypasta, then it’s a meme.
I’ve seen this particular tweet like a dozen times now, so it’s definitely spread far and wide. Some people only think of image macros as memes, but yes the broader definition I’ve seen is essentially a viral concept.
I would say a Twitter post isn’t one. At least scribble on an image of some.kind.
Okay, I’ve edited it so we should all be happy now
Whew! All clear, it’s a meme. Pack it up, people.👮♂️👮♀️
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It’s being spread through communication - It’s a meme. Memes don’t have to be funny.
Halloween is my favorite time of the year!
All 3 months of it
My first thought was “It’s never too early for Halloween”. I can understand hating early Christmas decorations, because Christmas is an all-out capitalist fuckfest with irritating jingles. But who hates Halloween?
Honestly it’s probably in part BECAUSE OF the damn early Christmas decorations that Halloween stuff has been expanding earlier into the fall/summer. Because by mid October you have to wade through a sea of holly jolly bullshit to get to it. Anyone with an issue with the early Halloween stuff, go take it up with Christmas for trying to annex October and not staying on their fucking side of the 31st.
people like christmas and november sucks. Christmas has expanded because everyone wanted it to. Halloween sucks as a holiday and frankly October would be better if it was Christmas
I mean you’re entitled to your opinion but surely this whole thread is evidence to the fact that people also enjoy Halloween. Halloween extending earlier doesn’t really affect anything, there’s not much in the way of holidays in September or hell, even August. Nobody is gonna claim pumpkins and candy are ruining Labor Day. Whereas beyond a certain point, Christmas starts to steamroll other holidays like some sort of tinsel covered Akira. I don’t think it’s unfair to want to enjoy Halloween on it’s own without being inundated with Mariah Carey.
Also we gotta put the line somewhere before it just invades the whole bloody year. You’ve got most of two freaking months already.
Halloween sucks as a holiday
I’ve never seen such a bad opinion from a Hexbear user.
I guess this is one of those YMMW situations. I’m sure Halloween can be fun and cool in America but outside of America it really sucks.
Where I’m from Halloween was not a thing until ten or fifteen years ago when toy stores decided they wanted to use the opportunity to market ugly plastic decorations and shitty costumes. There’s none of the cultural background that gives celebrations like this meaning and it all feels fake, like people are pretending to be Americans rather than taking part in a genuine celebration.
Celebrating Halloween as a non-American also has a tiresome aspect of cultural imperialism in it. Adopting stuff from other cultures is fine but why does it have to be stuff from burgerland every single time? Why can’t we do Dias de los muertos or Chinese New year instead?
Ah, yeah, I should say my opinion is entirely based around my experience as an American. It’s pretty deeply ingrained here- I mean imagine telling an American that they have to tolerate children running around at 9pm in the dark, they can’t drive their cars around because the streets are clogged with those children and furthermore, they need to stock up on candy because they will be giving it away to the kids.
And there is a culture tradition of vandalizing the homes of people who are stingy about the candy.
If it were new here it’d never even catch on, just like public libraries.
it’s just a bit underwhelming. Kids knock on your door and you watch a scary movie. You don’t even get a day off and it’s not an all day thing it’s just early night
Yeah but you get to dress your kid up as a velociraptor or a ghost buster or something and then interact with people who live near you in a friendly way which doesn’t exist outside of Halloween in this atomized hellscape. Plus it’s way more than one day, I’m putting giant spiders all over my place for at least a month. The webs are hell to take down so I might even leave em up through November out of laziness lol
that is true I just wish we culturally made more of a thing of it. If we are to treat it seriously as a holiday it should involve days off work and events
yeah, new wrecker just dropped
fuck christmas it’s a waste of fucking time
fuck santa he’s just out to get your dime
Letting go of the part of you that judges other people is important. It hurts, because that is one of the few avenues of control we can experience in our lives alienated by capitlaism.
Letting your self be free of those childish emotions and learning to replace them with love for your fellows is the path towards true happiness however. That is one of those weird tricks the government doesn’t want you to know. Except it is real and it works. The more negative you are about other people the more negativity you experience and the more treats you need to buy to survive. The heart of every true revolutionary is full of love.
Blown away by a message like this coming from a hexbearian.
Good message, just an odd source.
I am judging the fuck out of nazis though and I will not stop
Tolerance for everything but the intolerant.
An eye for an eye ✊😠
Pumpkin spice lattes?
This is humanity, there will be no joy! ☝️
But what about the shriveled flower of joy I get from shitting on their happiness
I mean a lot of hexbear, and Lemmy in general, is like that. Just shitting on other people’s happiness over the most trivial of things, bringing out 500 reasons why thing sucks. And it’s done in a hypocritical manner too, if you were to apply their own logic to things they liked and criticise it, they’d get really angry or give you that fake “I don’t care” attitude that everyone can see through. This happens with every discussion about “treats” on hexbear in particular.
a little meme
Me shitting on other people’s “treats”
Other people shitting on my “treats”What treats do you have in mind?
It is a lie. Reject false happiness. Enjoy the community of helping your fellow worker.
Suffer.
We already are…that’s kinda the point.
