this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2024
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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a vestigial structure from when the meme format was first introduced. It was meant to show doing something despite no one requesting it. It could work without it, but then it's considered a different meme format.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Would that be bad?