A perfect flag for a country that has disappeared up its own asshole.
Why are so many people on this site on their 69th account already?
Original content subreddits are a pain in the ass to maintain as good. Once we got past 5000 subscribers, the quality of r/fifthworldproblems started falling off a cliff. Users upvote whatever they could view the fastest which rewards images and easy-to-understand one-liners. Users seeing those then copy them because that's the popular thing which seems to reflect what an otherwise undefined idea is. You get this commodification of the idea that only compounds to ruin the community. By about 25k users the quality was so terrible that we had to ban image posts altogether because people were just posting stupid pictures. By 100k the idea of surrealism that people have is more "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" Monty Python yukyuk shit than it is people taking it in interesting directions. I don't even browse it anymore. r/OKBR is the only OC subreddit I've seen which maintains the quality of its core idea over time.
/r/surrealmemes went through a similar thing where they completely disabled posting and made people apply to get the right to post shit there lol
You pretty much have to unless the idea is really easy to play with or you've got really active moderation. Chapo is good because we're all familiar with the canon we're working with. If you asked "what is surrealism" in r/surrealmemes you'd get a dozen answers if not more. If you ask fifthworldproblems to describe dark surrealist sci-fi, it's either through some existing canon like Lovecraft or it's a dozen variations of each of those words. Throw in the posting incentives for low-quality content and it's a losing battle to keep subreddits like that readable. /r/seventhworldproblems, a subreddit I wish I had jumped on like I did /r/sixthworldproblems, has so much creative potential in the idea of a purgatory asylum but every post is making the same handful of jokes. There has not been creative growth since its first year.
Chapo is good
you lost me
seriously though, yeah, it's a really interesting thing, seeing how these communities centered around a "theme" develop and grow and change as they do so.
Chapo is good in comparison to other subreddits, although we live in our own Israel now. That's not saying chapo is good in a vacuum, only that being diagnosed with herpes is better than being diagnosed with cancer.
That flag is lit.
But the term "3rd World" just refers to "Countries not allied with the West or the USSR". I'm not sure what a "5th world country" would be, unless it's - like - a disputed Moon colony.
Reference to a now old meme format. Fifth world problems as a parody of first world problems, where the problems were usually surreal or abstract, as if from a parallel universe with different physical laws.
As the only person who knows what the fifth world actually is, yes we're that. To the point that I gave up on doing /r/fifthworldpolitics because it was absurd enough after 2016 that you couldn't really do a good satirisation of it.
Some of the bizarre mannerisms that Trump, Pelosi, Biden, Hillary, et al have to try and act relatable and/or hide their age at times are genuine glimpses into the fifth world.
That's where it gets stupid. When I made it I was in the 2016 primary mindset where it was funny to contrast Jeb! with Trump with Hillary with anyone in history. When it's skeletal ghouls imitating humans, they're already being fifth world politicians and I'd just be transposing them onto sci-fi things. Plus it would have invited fascists and their sense of humour is worse than the average /r/fifthworldproblems poster's.
itd be cool if our flag design was already waving, so then the flagpoles are waving twice. very funny
I miss the giant Zalthor in the corner with SHAMESHAMESHAME written across it that made viewing the subreddit on a phone impossible. We used to get so many angry mod messages about it and now I only have the
heroes of 9/11 toadalcoholic unicorn vomiting blood in r/fortbadgerton to preserve its terrible code.made viewing the subreddit on a phone impossible
The only thing more depressing than new reddit desktop is mobile web reddit, and the shocking number of people who use it.
I still use old desktop on everything. CSS stylesheets were good back in my day. They're bad but they're good and that makes them good goddammit.
