WTF is 196?!?! (...Rule?)

I'M SO FUCKING CONFUSED

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7 Comments

th3f4ult@social2.blahajspin.lol · 20 pts · 3y (3 replies)

196 was the spiritual successor or Reddit's r/195. 195 was created because the original mods had a uni apartment with the number 195, and they used to call it "Apartment of awesome", r/196 was created as a "House of awesome" (Or something like that)

BrainisfineIthink@lemmy.one · 1 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Okay, thank you. So what's with things like the (jam) rule? Is that just people piggy backing off other posts?

GenericUsername@feddit.de · 2 pts · 3y

rule

ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3y

People title their posts as rule because they're following the singular rule: if you visit 196, you have to post

Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 3y (2 replies)
BrainisfineIthink@lemmy.one · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I was on reddit for 12+ years and this entire phenomenon missed me somehow. That's awesome

PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 3y

Now you're one of us. :3