I was reddit faithful for over a decade. Lemmy is like reddit’s early days, I recognize users across multiple communities - people haven’t completely closed themselves off into tiny echo chambers so discussions are actually discussions, and not brigading agreements.
For a couple of years there were accounts where all the comments they made had a theme, usually the username was related. That’s how ShittyWatercolor started; someone would describe something in a comment and that would make shitty watercolor artwork of it.
There were tons of them. I remember another that would replace words in the comment with a link to a Magic the Gathering card where the title of the card would fill in the rest of the sentence.
There was another that would
witre cmeomtns lkie tihs
so your brain could read them even though nothing was spelled properly.
There were a few threads where they’d Assemble like the Avengers and it would be a bunch of folks all playing off one another. It was glorious, and then it all just kind of faded away…
I was reddit faithful for over a decade. Lemmy is like reddit’s early days, I recognize users across multiple communities - people haven’t completely closed themselves off into tiny echo chambers so discussions are actually discussions, and not brigading agreements.
In Reddit’s really early days, there weren’t any subreddits.
goes back to archive.org to find out when that was
Looks like their snapshot on January 10, 2007 lacks a subreddit sidebar, and the one on January 13, 2007 has one, so probably somewhere in there.
The first snapshot they have of Reddit is August 4, 2005, so it was like that for about a year-and-a-half.
I know I wasn’t there that early, but I was around for rage comics, Spacedicks, and the rise & fall of the novelty accounts.
The fall of novelty accounts? That’s a new one on me.
For a couple of years there were accounts where all the comments they made had a theme, usually the username was related. That’s how ShittyWatercolor started; someone would describe something in a comment and that would make shitty watercolor artwork of it.
There were tons of them. I remember another that would replace words in the comment with a link to a Magic the Gathering card where the title of the card would fill in the rest of the sentence.
There was another that would
so your brain could read them even though nothing was spelled properly.
There were a few threads where they’d Assemble like the Avengers and it would be a bunch of folks all playing off one another. It was glorious, and then it all just kind of faded away…
Does anyone remember 9M9H9E9? I stumbled on that account around the time of the “magical space pussy” part of the story.
Ah, gotcha. I don’t remember seeing a decline, but maybe I wasn’t looking for it.
EDIT: It looks like /u/ShittyWatercolour is still posting as of two months ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Janse_van_Rensburg
https://old.reddit.com/user/Shitty_Watercolour
Yeah they still exist. But there’s a lot less