Seriously, I don’t get it.
Oh dear, he hasn’t seen the light.
it’s just funny I guess. I like them, it gives Lemmy ✨ character ✨
I blocked the moth person, I got sick of those posts.
I block a lot of the “theme” posters.
I LOVE LAMP!
One person collected\created a ton of them and started to post them in droves to set a trend other would follow for a while. While the amount of them is moderate by reddit standards, smaller Lemmy userbase and it’s c/shitpost community got quite overwhelmed with that, up to the point you can’t scroll for a minute without seeing another moth meme. People got divided over the mothposting as you can see in that thread, with some choosing to ban\downvote\report them arguing they aren’t fun, too numerous and are mostly from one account, similarly to spam\flood; and some like me found it as a field for humor\creativity while bored, an event akin to what I’ve enjoyed back on r/196.
I’m not informed of any deep meaning or conspiracy theory behind it, it’s just a silly posting routine probably being someone’s project. But you can draw weird conclusions yourself, like it being a lamp seller’s campaign in the summer when their demand takes a nosedive due to more sun hours each day (yay, Lemmy’s so popular it has ad campaigns!); or, you know, it may be a commentary on how human race is captured by the idea of a weaponized atom that may eventually end it - and this is relevant when discussing the ongoing ME conflict that some see as a WW3\NewVietnam starter.
Do with that information what you will. Now that I think of it, it could be funny if the original mothposter wrote your post instead, so people mildly annoyed with their little mischief got to write a reply and then got an Aha moment recognising the username in a different community. Maybe the mothperson is you?
Shitposters on Lemmy tend to do stuff in waves and one particular user posted the memes to the point of spam which artificially started this one. That’s all there is to it.
That’s all there is to it
I feel personally attacked. I identify myself with these memes.
I just wanted to say
My just-woke-up brain combined these two into “how do you cope with moth memes”
Well, how do you cope with moth memes?
Bats.
Beans
Imagine a fictional creature that has wings like a bat and foot-beans like a cat
Beans, Bears, Battlestar Galactica
Spam by one user, plus some isolated copycats
I decided to start blocking the people posting them. It turns out, it was literally one user making it a spam problem. I blocked one or two more on principle and haven’t seen a moth meme since.
I’ve been aggressively blocking annoying users and communities and my Lemmy experience has been much better for it.
It’s really interesting how there are quite a few people who don’t realize it’s only one person posting them. Like yesterday I was talking to someone who complained about ‘all the people’ posting moths and it was quite funny when he realized it really was just one single user. I guess not many look at the usernames.
Be the meme you wanna see
These started popping up just after I started seeing a bunch of moths in my house. How did they get in my phone?!
I had one fly into the hinge of my laptop last night. What a weirdo.
Oh man wait till you hear about the beans
Mods should just redirect them to !mothmemes@lemmy.world
Personally, I’ve enjoyed the resurgence because of nostalgia for that time of memes. Even shared a bunch to another server and got praise lol
They have lämp.
Throwback to subreddit mothmemes 💡
