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.
/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.