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
seems like political shit ended up fertilizing good crops, then. :)
(btw i fully support breaking political content on non-political communities because it deters new users to the fediverse and also because it's hella annoying, itchy even)
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.
I know, they came first, there were even Jeans in between. I'm sorry if I shattered your world, but I'm sure otherwise you are a really important person.
about the beans: look for top all time
After the wave of newcomers lowered lemmy started to have some "weekly" phases where other memes became the meta like the german pedalo or moths and many others.
But as a moth fren i bring some moth memes back from time to time :)
Disclosure: I don’t know the full lore and I’m only answering because nobody else has.
My vague understanding is that this is unique to the ‘196’ community which has a community rule that every post must include the word “rule” in the title post. So it’s super common to see because it’s an active community. Beyond that I don’t really understand what the community is about as it seems to have a random variety of posts.
were you around on reddit when they were obsessed with bacon and narwhals? this is basically the equivalent but for lemmy. if you were not around for that I don't know how to explain it to you.
Bruh, bacon was different. I don't think anyone here is going to build an entire brand and livelihood around beans. Sometimes I think the whole bacon thing might've been a government PSI op.
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rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 134 pts · 25d
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.
mamg22@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 25d
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
popekingjoe@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 25d
We also did it with vans for some reason. So throw that in your history notes.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 25d
I remember a small jeans era as well
Minarble@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 25d
Sometimes the beans were in jeans.
Maroon@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 25d
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.
TerHu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 25d
well, they said their first account was on .world, and the one you checked the age of is on blahaj. so, an age discrepancy is to be expected.
Maroon@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 25d
Ah, clearly age has affected my ability to read and comprehend. Thanks for correcting me.
Goes back to flint knapping
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 24d
I guess I’m from before time (3y).
Dvixen@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 24d
We're old like dirt.
Or beans. Old like beans.
BeanEater@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 24d
Did someone say beans? Old beans are still tasty
paranoid@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 25d
The moths freaked me out a bit. I bet that's the next one
r4venw@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 25d
I miss the moths
ptu@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 25d
Maybe we should start posting lamps
JigglySackles@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 25d
I was cracking up at the moths
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 25d
Wait, there was a time before every post and comment chain became political? Sounds magical.
pewpew@feddit.it · 5 pts · 25d
I joined when everyone was competing about holding their poop in as much as possible
Zacryon@feddit.org · 2 pts · 25d
Do you happen to know who won?
Little1Lost@gehirneimer.de · 2 pts · 24d
the promising one told there would be signs in case of failiure
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 25d
I heard cornyposting was pretty popular
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org · 1 pts · 24d
seems like political shit ended up fertilizing good crops, then. :)
(btw i fully support breaking political content on non-political communities because it deters new users to the fediverse and also because it's hella annoying, itchy even)
MintyFresh@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 25d
Corn is out. Squash is the it thing now!
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 36 pts · 25d
stupid sexy squash
MintyFresh@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 25d
It's like wearing nothing at all!
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 15 pts · 25d
Butternut.
Lol!
Porcupirate@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 25d
Lemmy just loves bean corny
xkbx@startrek.website · 24 pts · 25d
have you never beheld a sweet, buttered cob
mamg22@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 25d
Is holding such a cob the path to enlightenment? If so, then I shall find one and hold it dearly
Zombie@feddit.uk · 22 pts · 25d
Two of the pinned memes on slrpnk memes tells you exactly why we all love corn and beans!
snooggums@piefed.world · 20 pts · 25d
We are simple farmers around here, the common clay of the internet.
showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website · 20 pts · 25d
Ya know,
MoronsShitposters.PodPerson@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 25d
Where all the white corn at?
Pacattack57@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 25d
lillardfair@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 25d
2 of the 3 sisters
JigglySackles@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 25d
Learning? In my shitpost?
lectricleopard@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 25d
I guess we know what to expect next.
Chef@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 25d
Squashposting, here we come.
agent_nycto@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 24d
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.
Magnum@infosec.pub · 8 pts · 24d
No? The beans came before the corn...
agent_nycto@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 23d
Then maybe the beans came first idk, I'm not gonna go back and check.
Magnum@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 23d
I know, they came first, there were even Jeans in between. I'm sorry if I shattered your world, but I'm sure otherwise you are a really important person.
agent_nycto@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 22d
It... Didn't really shatter my world, I really don't care if beans came first. I'm not that important and neither is like, any of this.
Magnum@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 22d
Don't act like this isn't the most important thing to you and that you have tried to claim Lemmy history
agent_nycto@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 22d
I did start the corn thing though. corn man
It's not the most important things to me though, this is like, a very small shitposting community in a very small niche Reddit knock off.
Sorry if me saying I did something made you mad
Magnum@infosec.pub · 0 pts · 22d
See its clearly something you desperately need everybody to know and believe
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org · 4 pts · 24d
thank you for this well-done psyop. we really need more non-political memes.
here, have a picture of the Three Sisters as a reward:
agent_nycto@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 23d
O thank you
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org · 1 pts · 23d
japanese honorary prefix?
wingnut@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 25d
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org · 9 pts · 24d
corn, beans and squash are known as the three sisters
history will say they were roommates.
Omgpwnies@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 24d
"best friends who slept in the same bed probably because it was cheaper to have only one bed"
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 24d
Vegetable society was different back then.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 25d
Everyone loves corn it’s got the juice
Little1Lost@gehirneimer.de · 8 pts · 24d
about the beans: look for top all time
After the wave of newcomers lowered lemmy started to have some "weekly" phases where other memes became the meta like the german pedalo or moths and many others.
But as a moth fren i bring some moth memes back from time to time :)
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 25d
From what I hear corn "is good enough and its got the juice"
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 25d
"I LOVE CORN" -that kid that loves corn
ChanchoManco@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 24d
Don't forget about no pooping!
tamal3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 24d
My fav
PoopSpiderman@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 25d
Is corn and beans succotash?
charokol@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 25d
I’ve been on Lemmy for a whole day and I’ve literally never heard anybody referenced corn and beans
btsax@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 24d
If someone could also explain why half the post titles have the word "rule" in them, that would also be helpful
SacralPlexus@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 24d
Disclosure: I don’t know the full lore and I’m only answering because nobody else has.
My vague understanding is that this is unique to the ‘196’ community which has a community rule that every post must include the word “rule” in the title post. So it’s super common to see because it’s an active community. Beyond that I don’t really understand what the community is about as it seems to have a random variety of posts.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 24d
The 196 community has an (unenforced) rule that you must post every time you visit, so they're posts that are following the rule.
KernelTale@programming.dev · 1 pts · 23d
I didn't know that... I will fix that first thing tomorrow morning.
SillyMe@piefed.social · 5 pts · 25d
were you around on reddit when they were obsessed with bacon and narwhals? this is basically the equivalent but for lemmy. if you were not around for that I don't know how to explain it to you.
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 25d
Bruh, bacon was different. I don't think anyone here is going to build an entire brand and livelihood around beans. Sometimes I think the whole bacon thing might've been a government PSI op.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 24d
@liam
Edit: I guess that's probably a different Liam
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 25d
First I'm hearing about this. I guess Lemmy will lose their mind when they learn about Kenyan githeri
Kintarian@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 25d
I wonder if Cornholio eats beans
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 24d
ASK THE MOTH. THE MOTH WILL TELL ALL!
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 25d
Sounds like a good combination. I've never tried it.
GorGor@startrek.website · 6 pts · 25d
add squash, then you have the three sisters.
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 25d
Kenyan Githeri is pretty much a big bowl of beans and corn
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 24d
Hexbear has been Beanis posting for a long time now. I don't know how it started, but it's a significant part of that instance's content at this point
lectricleopard@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 25d
Am i alone in seeing the working class foods as an indicator of the politics of the lemmy community on average?
kalpol@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 24d
I'm Captain Jenks of the Horse Marines
I feed my horse on corn and beans
chefdano3@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 24d
It used to be beans.
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 24d
It’s earlyish internet culture not Lemmy borne
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 24d
thufferin.....