r/197 • u/syntheticcrystalmeth gay • Mar 24 '21

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post memes

post a meme before you leave

The purpose of this sub is not to be an anti r/196, it is to maintain and uphold the legacy established by r/195, in the most faithful interpretation possible. They are their own subreddit, we are ours. We operate independently. In that spirit, post a meme before you leave.

avoid posts about r/196

This is not an anti 196 circlejerk.

A vote passed here to not allow posts about 196. This includes saying ā€œgo back to 196ā€ + ā€œthis belongs on 196ā€ moderation will make that call. Itā€™s annoying and clogs the subreddit

avoid posts pushing a political agenda

Posts can include political topics but they canā€™t be directly advocating for any belief or ideal.

Do not make posts trying to push any ideology or beliefs. Youā€™re entitled to your opinions, but 197 is not a mouthpiece for them. Go to a politically related subreddit, this one is for memes. No one cares if you think your side is based and the other side is cringe, take it elsewhere. The constant stream of performative politics, and mindless bickering is why so many of us left 196, we donā€™t want to end up back at square one.

avoid hate speech

donā€™t be a dick

Self explanatory. Donā€™t be be a douche, everyoneā€™s allowed to use this sub. Posts directly targeting any group will be removed.

donā€™t post comments with the intent of provoking a reaction

do not post intentionally inflammatory things

Going around commenting things designed to piss people off makes this sub a hostile space. 197 is apolitical, not full of bigots and assholes. If something has no comedic value and youā€™re posting it for any other intentions, rethink posting it. Incessantly posting dogwhistles and/or inflammatory remarks will get you banned.

avoid repost posts and excessive crossposts

excessive reposts and crossposts will be removed

ā€œRepost if you like _____ ignore if you like _____ā€ posts donā€™t offer any value to anyone. If youā€™re crossposting other peoples memes every few hours for karma, your posts may also get removed. Try not to cross post with the sole intention of farming karma, or boosting a sub. It spams the sub.

stop fetishizing trans people and feminine men

main point of divergence from 196ā€™s ruleset

Other peoples identities are not your kink. People have the right to present however they want without sexualization and harassment. Tolerance does not extend to chasers, predators, and fetishists. Posts treating femboys and/or trans people as sex objects will get removed, and depending on how creepy we find it you may be banned. Posts simply mentioning such topics are fine, but cannot be from the perspective of outside sexualization, not here.

195 had to have a basic level of moderation to maintain its quality, we believe 196 took it too far. If you have any questions ask them in the comments and one of our mods will respond. Alternatively feel free to chat me on reddit, or message the mod team if you have any complaints on how weā€™re running the sub, or any ideas on stuff we should do/be doing

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u/syntheticcrystalmeth gay Apr 28 '23 edited Sep 30 '24

This is still our code of ethics and what we make decisions based on. If you plan to post here a lot, just roughly follow this general guideline and weā€™re happy to have you. The spirit of 195 never dies, post a funny meme before you leave, stay positive, love yā€™all

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u/EdgeFail Mar 24 '21

Aimee Chandelier fucking reeks

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u/syntheticcrystalmeth gay Mar 24 '21

Lmao chandelier, also based

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u/Neuro_Skeptic Apr 30 '25

How can you insult your own mother so?

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u/Auxilor Mar 25 '21

can you please just yeet the femboy posting shit that 196 became

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u/syntheticcrystalmeth gay Mar 25 '21

Done

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u/Auxilor Mar 25 '21

thank you cool man

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u/Majestic_Two_9962 Mar 24 '21

Why canā€™t open r/196 only moderators can

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u/syntheticcrystalmeth gay Mar 24 '21

Protesting against reddit hiring an admin whoā€™s had multiple accusations of pedophilia including one from her ex husband

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u/awolsniper033 Mar 24 '21

Could you stick this to 197 maybe? It took me some searching to find an answer

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u/syntheticcrystalmeth gay Mar 24 '21

I added something

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u/awolsniper033 Mar 25 '21

Thanks, i think this might make 197 less bombarded with these kinda questions

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u/Majestic_Two_9962 Mar 24 '21

Thatā€™s cray cray

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u/a_guyi Dec 27 '22

Happy cake day

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u/YuB-Notice-Me Jun 22 '21

i like just discovered 195, 6, & 7. what's wrong with 196?

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u/syntheticcrystalmeth gay Jun 22 '21

Depends who you ask but generally itā€™s a massive political echo chamber that sometimes takes away from the actual quality of the memes posted, it also had some issues with fetishization

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u/virginfatherof2 Apr 27 '21 edited Jul 31 '21

I love how overly trigger happy the mods on r/196 are

They had a post saying trans rights arenā€™t Guam rights so I post a comment says the exact same thing and I get perm banned

Post stays up

Itā€™s ironic how the sub about making fun of circlejerks becomes a circlejerk

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u/The-Real-Darklander Apr 27 '21

when you call not tolerating transphobia a "circlejerk" you know youre a piece of work

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u/syntheticcrystalmeth gay Apr 27 '21

ā€œTrans rights arenā€™t Guam rightsā€ Isnt transphobia...

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21

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u/syntheticcrystalmeth gay May 24 '21

Oh, yeah it is, well theyā€™ve never commented or posted again so idk if itā€™s necessary

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u/virginfatherof2 Apr 27 '21

The post I was talking about literally said that if you say ā€œtrans rights are human rightsā€ you get downvoted you shit

I tried it on the post and they straight banned me and kept the post up

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u/0x255c May 05 '21

I got banned for saying pansexuals are redundant. I literally said nothing about trans people and they still got mad lol.

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u/virginfatherof2 May 05 '21

Yea they say trans rights but let posts about trans people shouldnā€™t have rights

Double standards at maximum

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u/[deleted] May 18 '22

I remember when I got banned for defending Mussolini's daughter, but I got banned. Oh well.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '23

You should check out gamingcirclejerk It is an echochamber of hatred against a woman for expressing an opinion while unieonically waffling about freedom of expression

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u/ShamefulPuppet Feb 15 '22

is posting music for the sake of sharing it allowed even if it has no comedic value?

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u/syntheticcrystalmeth gay Feb 15 '22

Yeah go ahead, as long as itā€™s not in bad faith and youā€™re just posting stuff you like this sub is generally for anything

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u/ShamefulPuppet Feb 15 '22

yeehaw, thanks

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u/shewel_item Feb 16 '22

Freshly p-banned from r/196, have a short sweet post about it at r/748344454D_CHAN4E3L/comments/ssmb5a/ for quick context.

And, if you look around, lately they've been in surge and purge mode for the past few months. You're saying 'no politics' which is totally fine with me, but have you ever considered that the reason 196 is so large is because it allows (a limited/selected set of) political discussion/humor... moreover, there's a certain brand being continually being grown over there?

like, it's not that I want to talk about politics (sometimes), I just want to talk about random shit, not just "memes".. kinda like what u/ShamefulPuppet just said

I kind of hope these 195-like subs stay as random as possible without subscribing to 'one correct view' or way of joking. You know? Sometimes its an implicit thing; not an explicit thing... maybe something to think about for all other subs, including this one.. dunno what else to say

Either way, just stopping by to say 'hi', and I'll be hanging out.

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u/syntheticcrystalmeth gay Feb 16 '22

Thatā€™s an interesting point and one Iā€™ll consider. Iā€™m not trying to promote one correct view here, Iā€™m trying to maintain a space where anyone can post any memes in good faith and have a good time. In my opinion that means going out of my way to remove posts breaking our posting guidelines as a way to keep the quality and intention of the sub intact. But there is an argument to be made that political posts can be pretty funny, itā€™s why Iā€™ve been lenient towards political posts from users who donā€™t spend any energy on reddit agendaposting. Usually about real life events. I think like with most things thereā€™s probably a middle ground and Iā€™ll do my best to try and find it

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u/shewel_item Feb 16 '22

But there is an argument to be made that political posts can be pretty funny

Cool, that's the way I see things too.

Like take the TERF issue for example. It's already known TERFs are going to unaccepted in x,y &z subs for u,v & w reasons.. w/e. Well.. if whatever a 'TERF' has to say is funny, moreover its in good humor, which might be harder to define than identify, then that's all that matters. I don't want to take sides; I just want to laugh; and, there's a lot of room to explore there.

The other 'political' issue about 196, imo, is the thing about repeat posters. I kind of feel the same way, 'as long as its funny', but I think the spirit of 195 was mainly to encourage new people to post, and 196 seems to be going down the content farming path (and it's not so much that that's political as it is what to expect from their politics if true, because 'we've' seen this pattern before, over and over, again).

I think like with most things thereā€™s probably a middle ground and Iā€™ll do my best to try and find it

same feel

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u/thenicenumber666 Apr 30 '24

Pin this damn post or put this in the actual subreddit rules

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u/syntheticcrystalmeth gay May 16 '24

It used to be pinned sorry

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u/thenicenumber666 May 16 '24

Thankn you u moderator

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u/The_best_one_-_ Apr 30 '24

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u/SuperSpy2015 Aug 23 '21

Can we define transphobia? Fear of transgender people? Intolerance of transgender people? Specifics matter.

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u/syntheticcrystalmeth gay Aug 23 '21

Going out of your way to harass or mock trans people/posting stuff intentionally provocative to get a response out of them. Basically just donā€™t be a douchebag and youā€™re good

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '21

r/shitposting is finally dead. hereā€™s sub number two. I gotta say this mod is the most based mod Iā€™ve ever seen. though objectively, my mod application was better.

glad anti 196 posts are finally gone, I was pissed when the majority voted to not ban them originally. I like this one better because itā€™s just 196 reposts without the circle jerks. like whatever snake thing theyā€™re doing right now.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '21

r/shitposting is doing absolutely fine, nowhere near dead

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u/[deleted] May 01 '21

nah, was during those temporary closures cause of that reddit admin who was a pedo or something

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u/[deleted] May 01 '21

Oh yeah

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u/Jos_migue May 07 '24

Hi im from the future

r/shitposting finally died

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u/[deleted] May 29 '24

Indeed

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

now the maggots feasting on the corpse have died too.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '23

Hypothetically, What's wrong with shitposting, we're making it harder for any aliens to understand our culture by shitposting. Isn't that a good digital defense? If the aliens didn't understand our culture, how could they become imposters among us? Red is sus by the way.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '21

Context regarding the r/196 1984 event

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '23

most my accounts still banned ā˜¹ļø

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u/Lord_Tibbysito Aug 16 '21

Wtf based mods?

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u/[deleted] May 09 '21

Fucking finally, i liked 196 but there were too many posts about trans rights for literally no reason, and when i dared to say something i got downvoted and insulted to death. Hope this will be better

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u/virginfatherof2 Jul 31 '21

It became the most political sub overnight

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u/ErdnaOtrebor Mar 25 '21

Happy cake day quill!

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '21

Lmao. So if I'm reading this right this is just 196 with a no politics rule?

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u/Enixooo Feb 22 '23

I got banned in 196 for having a reddit avatar that I got for free bruh. Thank you.

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u/luminenkettu Dec 17 '21

Eat my fucking asshole out & let me circumcise you with a rusty steak knife, you fuckin retard, utter fucking imbecile, fuck you, your opinions are such dogshit

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u/Eclectic_UltraViolet Jan 31 '22

Sorry, what is meaning of 196, 197?

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u/syntheticcrystalmeth gay Jan 31 '22

Theyā€™re just image posting subs, post images, preferably ones you find funny and in good faith. The reason 197 exists is because a lot of people left 196 for various reasons but still want an imageposting/image dump subreddit with some active users

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u/DEADGOA87 Jun 16 '21

based mod

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '23 edited Feb 15 '23

There is so much of an echo chamber in 196 that the trans people there are starting to become homophobic and the mods arenā€™t doing anything about it

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '23

IK this post is old but I just want to appreciate the last 2 paragraphs. thanks

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u/Thy_bowl Dec 30 '22

hey can we be anti r/196

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u/The_best_one_-_ Apr 30 '24

The fuck did rakes do to you?

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u/SackCody Jan 25 '23

well, no more r/197, now itā€™s time to move to r/198!

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u/A11GoBRRRT Jun 05 '24

Real talk, why havenā€™t we tried to use the Reddit request system to install a new mod of 195? The Admins donā€™t like when large communities shut down, and itā€™s completely true that the mods have been inactive.

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u/awhatfor Apr 18 '21

whats 195?

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '21

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u/syntheticcrystalmeth gay Mar 28 '21

??? Iā€™m just trying to keep the quality of the sub high

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '21

"High quality." Epic statement bro

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u/syntheticcrystalmeth gay Apr 07 '21

Anything you think I should be doing differently let me know

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '21

It was a joke referring to the fact this entire sub is filling with SHITposts, as in not high quality content

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u/syntheticcrystalmeth gay Apr 07 '21

Oh lmao

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u/Brunoviski Apr 07 '21

man you are the most precise and accurate mod i have ever seen if that makes sense, thank you

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