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.
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.
probably not
and here is someone’s word for most of those bean memes:
Ah, gotcha.
We gotta get y’all some seasoning asap.
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.
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.