As I remember it (and I have a terrible memory), the fedi beans memes started pretty early on, like 2018, and came from a place of “we don’t get trending memes from other platforms so let’s start our own.” I think it came to lemmy from other fedi platforms pretty early on, and gets deployed periodically as a kind of palate cleanser. I blame the Brits, but I don’t have evidence to support that.
I don’t think we are to blame for the beans thing (we prefer our beans as baked beans).
As a rule of thumb though, we can be blamed for far too much stuff. You need to include the french too however. They got up to almost as much “shenanigans”.
It’s a reasonable take, I swear! Most fedi platforms seem to have an English-speaking population that is ~50% Germans speaking English, ~25% the UK and the rest is a smattering of other English speakers. Lemmy, in my experience, is the odd one out with regards to US defaultism.
Nothing specific, just noting that the Brits have a long history of brutal imperialism. On the other hand, they’re the reason many countries have a holiday where they celebrate their independence.
Yeah, it was “reddit has bacon and narwhals, we need our own thing!!”
Meaning it was completely inorganic and painfully lame. As a whole, Lemmy should all hold up a spork and call itself tEh PeNgUiN oF dOoM for being so quirky and random
As I remember it (and I have a terrible memory), the fedi beans memes started pretty early on, like 2018, and came from a place of “we don’t get trending memes from other platforms so let’s start our own.” I think it came to lemmy from other fedi platforms pretty early on, and gets deployed periodically as a kind of palate cleanser. I blame the Brits, but I don’t have evidence to support that.
“When in doubt, blame the Brits” is actually pretty solid general advice that I hadn’t considered before.
I mean, they like their beans
What’s the green goo in the middle of the tray?
Mushed peas
Yummy!
This is epic
I don’t think we are to blame for the beans thing (we prefer our beans as baked beans).
As a rule of thumb though, we can be blamed for far too much stuff. You need to include the french too however. They got up to almost as much “shenanigans”.
Works great for us natives, for a couple hundred years plus now
https://arethebritsatitagain.org/
Are the Brits a tit again
The British are always at it like California is always on fire.
The answer is always yes.
It’s a reasonable take, I swear! Most fedi platforms seem to have an English-speaking population that is ~50% Germans speaking English, ~25% the UK and the rest is a smattering of other English speakers. Lemmy, in my experience, is the odd one out with regards to US defaultism.
What happened to Canada?
Nothing specific, just noting that the Brits have a long history of brutal imperialism. On the other hand, they’re the reason many countries have a holiday where they celebrate their independence.
As a brit I agree with this
Yeah, it was “reddit has bacon and narwhals, we need our own thing!!”
Meaning it was completely inorganic and painfully lame. As a whole, Lemmy should all hold up a spork and call itself tEh PeNgUiN oF dOoM for being so quirky and random
It was more like 2022
Considering Lemmy itself only came to be in 2019, i tend to believe you.
I plead terrible memory and accept this may be more accurate