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.
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.
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.
fuck i love this meme. i wish surreal memes became popular more often
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.
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.
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