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Shitpost trends get old fast and the joke isn't funny anymore as people try to hop on the band wagon for easy upvotes (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The most recent being the jeans trend. It was funny, I get why everyone enjoys a good shitpost. Some of the shitpost are top quality and fun for all to enjoy. But after a couple of days the shitposts just turn to shit posts and its just upvote farming low quality content and kills the joke.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

I can agree with that point. People might be late to the joke, or enjoy it for a longer time. But the quality of posts is also important, and I think that's the where the difference comes in. Someone takes the time to think of a good pun, or a high quality photo shop, I can appreciate that even if I don't fine the joke funny anymore. When the post is jeans jeans and it's a drawing done in 5 seconds in paint of 2 pairs of poorly draw jeans it's not funny and just upvote farming, whether you just discovered the joke or not. That's my take anyway, I know we won't all agree.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Shitposts aren't supposed to be high quality. It's in the name

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They still should reach the bar of “not garbage” though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Well that's up to the audience to decide