• simple@lemm.eeEnglish
    151·
    1 year ago

    This isn’t the right community for this, also I find it pretty funny that a meme dissing Reddit was screenshot from the official app.

    • NovaPrime@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I get that it’s topical, but I guess I just don’t really care about what’s happening on reddit. If I wanted to see Reddit content I’d be on Reddit. Combined with the irony of the fact that it’s taken on the app, it just becomes a bit of a circle jerk.

  • EyesEyesBaby@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    Never saw the u/spez functie elders. For background, after the latest Dutch elections there was this politician called Omtzigt. He wanted to become the leader of one of the bigger parties, but not everybody was in favor of him, so his own party fucked him. That’s because he’s been very critical about some things the government has done the last few years (biggest thing is the “toeslagenaffaire” which really is a shitshow, I can’t even give you a proper synopsis).

    The leaders of the big parties that wanted to form a coalition had one major objective, to not give Omtzigt a place within the government. So they wanted to seek a different position (“functie”)for him somewhere else (“elders”). Omtzigt is pretty popular among voters though. That’s what differs him from u/spez.

    Edit: the current state of r/place is even better.

  • Ddhuud@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    I feel like someone is trying to say something… Oh well it’ll remain a mystery.

    - Spez (probably)

  • atomic2354@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I imagine the idea was to let people take out their anger in a way that does nothing to reddit and will go away in a week.

  • anteaters@feddit.deEnglish
    53·
    1 year ago

    Should have gone “Fuck Reddit” instead. No one outside the bubble knows who or what a u/spez is.

    • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      People keep saying this. That its only a small bubble of people.

      I dont think it matters

      If i was out of the loop and i kept seeing fuck spez i would google it.

      I would want to know what it means.

      Like when some new meme comes along and im out of the loop.

      Infact there was a whole subreddit r/outoftheloop for this. It was quite popular.

      This is exactly the sort of thing that gets people interested. A slightly unobvious but catchy sentence “fuck spez” is both clean and mysterious and it appears everywhere.

      And r/place is very popular. Those fuck spez messages will reach alot of people. I think other services may see a slight bump in users in the next few days.

  • alexhyatt64@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    and then there was the Touhou fandom minding their own business recreating bad apple one pixel at a time

  • Shit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    Wow lots of user engagement just what reddit is looking for before the IPO…

    • realitista@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      There were never more than 10 people on the Lemmy r/place chat. It was a pretty small crew we brought to get our banner up there. I’m sure we drove more traffic here with millions seeing it than the 10 of us drove there.