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I think it’s fair to call me an elder lemming at this point, as I recall the reasons for both. I signed up on .world with my first account on the last day before the infamous APIocalypse.
Along with myself, a lot of us were putting effort into posting good stuff, upvoting, and generally having a lot of positive interactions. Someone on !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world posted a picture with a can of beans with a caption along the lines of “I hear that lemmy will upvote anything. Here’s a picture of beans”. It quickly became the most upvoted post of all time.
As lemmy culture developed into a deeply political space, it began flooding !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world with American politics. People got sick of it, and people started doing “we’re posting x now until politics stops”. There had been a couple rounds of various themes, and then someone announced “that’s it, I’m sick of politics everywhere. We’re posting corn”. Cornposting has become the default political purge over there.
Thanks for the explanation! I didn’t use to check Lemmy frequently up until recently, so the cornposting has always been this strange thing i saw sometimes, but never understood it. Now it makes sense
We also did it with vans for some reason. So throw that in your history notes.
I remember a small jeans era as well
to call me an elder lemming at this point,
Looks at profile age: 1 years 4 months.
Me (2 years 7 months): Huh, guess I’ll just take my prehistoric ass out of here and go chip flints.
I guess I’m from before time (3y).
We’re old like dirt.
Or beans. Old like beans.
Did someone say beans? Old beans are still tasty
The moths freaked me out a bit. I bet that’s the next one
I miss the moths
I was cracking up at the moths
Wait, there was a time before every post and comment chain became political? Sounds magical.
Lemmy just loves bean corny
Corn is out. Squash is the it thing now!
2 of the 3 sisters
Learning? In my shitpost?
I guess we know what to expect next.
Squashposting, here we come.
I was sick of seeing political stuff on the shitposting group so I started bombarding it with corn until it stopped. I had happened to have a bunch of corn pictures saved on my phone because I had flooded my friend’s discord with corn pictures just to goof on her.
It spiraled into a glorious corn filled nightmare insanity, and as someone from Ohio, I appreciate that.
I think the beans came up later because people like to play with themes.
From what I hear corn “is good enough and its got the juice”
“I LOVE CORN” -that kid that loves corn
I’ve been on Lemmy for a whole day and I’ve literally never heard anybody referenced corn and beans
Everyone loves corn it’s got the juice
Is corn and beans succotash?
First I’m hearing about this. I guess Lemmy will lose their mind when they learn about Kenyan githeri
I’m Captain Jenks of the Horse Marines
I feed my horse on corn and beans
I wonder if Cornholio eats beans
It’s earlyish internet culture not Lemmy borne
Am i alone in seeing the working class foods as an indicator of the politics of the lemmy community on average?
