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So I checked out reddit after a long time and was going through the top of r/videogames subreddit and I could clearly see a pattern in most of the posts there. Posts were mostly like "what game ______ for you?" or "what game _____ like this?" Now I could be wrong but it doesn't feel 'organic' (if that's correct way to put it). It's like these are put up intentionally. Thoughts?
When I first joined lemmy, there were bean posts everywhere. People kept posting shitty puns about beans with pictures of beans, and people kept upvoting them. But it eventually died down.
Could these kinds of posts just be a fad on reddit right now?
The beans were great. As incoherent as they got it felt like someone was trying to post content so they got my upvotes. It can get pretty dead around here and I was glad for the change of pace. For a while there was nothing but AI prompt Sailor Moon art that was pretty entertaining too
The life cycle of a meme seems broken. They font just go to Facebook to die any more. Reddit reached a size where a meme can't die. There's enough people where a meme can get reposted a few days later and still hit the front page multiple times. Its new to enough people it gets a second or third round. We seen it naturally with Hosts and beans, but it died off once everyone got sick of the joke.
Bots copy and repost what gets upvotes. Seems something gets big a few times over untill enough people see it, then the bots add it to the good meme list and could hit make "new" at any time. The dead meme comes back at just the right moment to be new to some and retro to others, the cycle repeats.
It's been going on for a long time before I left the place. I think it's more survival of the fittest in action. Posts are not sorted just by upvotes but the number of comments is taken into account as well. Most sane subs have a rule against begging for for upvotes, so people pivoted to encouraging comments with this kind of posts. Easy way to get to the top of the sub.
I used to report the more blatant ones wiht "comment baiting is a form of vote manipulation". Not that I was expecting mod action, but I felt a bit better afterwards.