I don't know what everyone means when they use 'rule' in the title and at this point I'm too afraid to ask. Please enlighten me.
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2024
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For the curious, the original was actually /r/195 on Reddit. It started as a joke between some college roommates, in dorm room number 195. Then it eventually got popular as a sort of shitposting community. But the original 195 was basically unmoderated (because it was just a couple of dudes in college who started it for shiggles,) and was eventually brigaded and taken over by alt-right neonazis. The memes quickly devolved into straight up Nazi propaganda.
So 196 was created as a sort of “new” 195, and that original brigade and subsequent takeover is why a lot of the 196 memes tend to lean hard left. The 196 sub was sort of a rebellion against the 195 takeover, which means that conservative stuff quickly got shut down. It eventually became a sort of safe space for transgender memes as a result. From there it became a sort of self-sustaining reaction where trans people saw it as safe so more trans people gravitated towards it.
Thank you for the detailed explanation! I remember seeing it on reddit, but never knew why.
It's always seemed so wholesome to me how the trans folks are such a huge part of what makes that sub awesome but also it's not a "trans sub", so you get all these people there for the memes also experiencing fully normalized transness
I'm pretty sure neo-Nazis weren't the reason r/195 shut down. It was just that after 420 weeks the owners decided to end "the experiment".
I wasn't on Reddit then though, so I wouldn't know.
Curious where you got your take if you weren't even on reddit? I never heard any of this before, was it, like, in the news or something?
I was on r/196, and that's what the people from r/195 were saying
The respective person wasn't on reddit then, likely was after, just in time to read the archives.
Hey there you could've taken two seconds to read my profile and seen I have my pronouns listed there instead of just misgendering me
No, I really couldn't have. My attention span is too short. I apologize, if it makes you feel better. However, I can make no promises on any future mislabelings, to you, anyone or anything else. My attention span is too short for that.
Fun fact, very few people indeed will respond negatively to "they" as a default pronoun for when one is uncertain.
to have a dorm room 195 seems implausible. it implies at least 95 rooms on one floor
Or building 1, section/floor 9, room 5. I’m in an apartment that has four digits, but that doesn’t mean there are over 1000 apartments in the complex. It simply means they follow a standard numbering scheme to make finding the specific apartments easier.
Interesting. Number schema come in many colors. I use 20240315 format to prefix dated files
In the Netherlands I saw some building were, instead of having a street number-flat number, the building had all the numbers listed on them. So, if the building had 100 houses, the street number for the building would be 150-249, and the next street number would be 250.
It's possible they had a similar system.