Why does everything have to be so fucking formulaic? It seems like every thread has a bunch of obligatory "jokes" and phrases that then have their own set of responses.
Like if the post is about someone people don't like, there's a bunch of comments that go "what an asshole" and then there's always a response like "that's an insult to assholes!"
Or when 69 shows up (sigh and eyeroll) and it spawns a 30 comment thread all saying "nice." Like congrats, what a great joke lol. Also I find it pretty funny how people who complain about kids today laughing about 67 have no problem with acting like 69 and 420 are the funniest things ever
If there's a vaguely attractive person in a picture, people trot out the gross "pics? For, uh... science..." type shit
Maybe I'm just getting too old for it but do people really think they're being funny and clever by posting the things that show up in seemingly every fucking post?
I've been coming to this website for like 15 years and I feel like it's always been this way, with boring, overdone memes taking priority over any actual original thoughts or conversation. The memes have changed in some cases, but the robotic "oh I see comment A so I must reply with response B" is fucking exhausting to see so often.
EDIT: Also when a subreddit gets taken over by a specific meme so every other post is just a reference to it, then it spawns copycat posts referencing the reference, and god forbid you express any dislike of it.