What even is 196, why’s it so popular and how’d it get its name? I saw so much from it I think I blocked it just because it was drowning out everythink else.
It spun off from the subreddit, which spun off from 195 due to cultural disagreements.
195 came about as a fun little private subreddit between a few friends for their dormitory room. It blew up, things got ugly, and it was eventually shut down, with most people moving to 196 and its sibling subs.
People wanted to replicate 196 on Lemmy, so here we are.
It drowns a lot of things out since one of the rules of the community is that when you visit, you’re meant to make at least one post. Since it doesn’t have a small user base, that also means a lot of posts, and as it doesn’t have a clear direction, besides a generic meme group, it gets anything and everything, which doesn’t help matters.
What even is 196, why’s it so popular and how’d it get its name? I saw so much from it I think I blocked it just because it was drowning out everythink else.
It spun off from the subreddit, which spun off from 195 due to cultural disagreements.
195 came about as a fun little private subreddit between a few friends for their dormitory room. It blew up, things got ugly, and it was eventually shut down, with most people moving to 196 and its sibling subs.
People wanted to replicate 196 on Lemmy, so here we are.
It drowns a lot of things out since one of the rules of the community is that when you visit, you’re meant to make at least one post. Since it doesn’t have a small user base, that also means a lot of posts, and as it doesn’t have a clear direction, besides a generic meme group, it gets anything and everything, which doesn’t help matters.
It’s a queer shitposting channel. I love it, but it’s not for everyone.
It split off from 195 when they got invaded by homophobes and have been having a gay old time ever since.