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New users are now starting to piss me off.
Yes, I know we were all one at some point, but this situation we have is getting out of hand. Most of the past few entries have either been already submitted or just youtube crap.
We need to do something about this… NOW!

grab one and have some fun YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!!

^ Those are some lame guns. They are just hunting rifles…

It's the anti-n00b Villain squad!

And lastly, these guys.

They're f***ing everywhere. But that's a good thing for once.

I recently read Bill Wasik's book And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture and something stood out to me that I'd like to put into practice more in this site.

Bill was paraphrasing something Jonah Peretti once said:

Memes spread precisely when they break out of their audiences and achieve a sort of transcendence of subculture.

In my opinion, we've allowed too many meme entries that never break out of their subculture, which is exactly where a lot of these problems arise.

"new members posting bullshit" is not always true you know… As soon as I signed up I made the entry for Jumpstyle which actually is and confirmed as a meme.

@Real

You forgot these guys.

Except for Mr. Orange.

I'm not saying ALL new users are bad, it's just that MOST are.
But in the grand scheme of things, it's not that big of a deal. Just keep deadpooling them I guess

In Swiss Family Robinson the movie, they had exploding coconuts.

How come Dr. Wily looks like Snidely Whiplash?

scared face

      O >
D
      O >

Instead of all those other guys, send the unstoppable combo of Weegee and Captain Falcon.

And throw in Mr. T and Chuck Norris for good measure

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tourturemainstreamartists

well, my case in point

Does that mean you hate me?

@Adorabunny:
Why would we hate you? You're not a noob.

@Thread:
Why not just let the admins deadpool the useless and non-meme entries? I don't see why it's necessary to overreact to this situation. There have always been noobs who make false entries, nothing's changed. You need to keep in mind, however, that KnowYourMeme's rising popularity is, in part, to blame. You are going to see that with any website, and KYM is no different.
Don't worry, the solutions are in the works. Once we have moderators the useless entries will be deadpooled/marked invalid quicker.
I don't see why you guys are so quick to rage. This is to be expected. Noobs will be noobs, we just have to understand that and know how to react. E.g., handle the situation maturely, not shout "WTF IS THIS???!!!! TROLL!!! GTFO!!!". A simple "+1 deadpool, now here's why…" will suffice. They will learn from their mistakes. If need be, explain to them what a meme is.
If they are a troll, simply do not react. Message one of the admins about that user, give them a link, and explain their behavior and they'll take care of it.

@Shadowfury:
You are exactly right. Noobs will be noobs. There is no reason to overreact to this problem. There have always been n00bs on this website who make stupid meme entries that get deadpooled.