this is my first probably not good meme

  • prplghsts@fedinsfw.appEnglish
    71·
    8 hours ago

    I’m a newb, so pardon my ignorance but beans?!?!? Are they at least seasoned properly?

    • Adniem@thelemmy.clubOP
      51·
      8 hours ago

      probably not

      and here is someone’s word for most of those bean memes:

      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.

      • BurntWits@sh.itjust.works
        51·
        8 hours ago

        I thought it came from this post but maybe there was some background for choosing beans in that post. I also joined shortly before the bean post so maybe I’m missing some more info.

        • restingOface@quokk.auEnglish
          4·
          5 hours ago

          Yea, if that “lemmy will upvote anything” post from 2023 was actually just referencing a preexisting bean meme from 2018, that’s news to me.