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In retrospective allowing political discussion in know your meme was a mistake in the first place. It was supposed to be a meme website not /pol/.

If I could travel back in time I would have tried to somehow get the mods to outlaw politics and shit, my own life would had been way better too if that happened…but that is like the least important reason I would do it

You see, it all went downhill starting in 2014 with “The Gamergate Incident.” As times went on, the whole “getting political” thing was becoming the hot new trend taking hold across the internet. But this trend caused Knowyourmeme to become less community-oriented over time. How did the community respond to these changing circumstances? Instead of resolving them, they moved to discord and fragmented into other servers as time went on. I saw this happen in real time. And the circlejerking. It just kept happening…

Fortunately, while they’re busy over there on discord, there was left a remnant on the knowyourmeme forums. A remnant which was tasked with picking up the pieces left behind from a bygone era. A remnant tasked with rebuilding, possibly even creating something new. A remnant that could shape the site culture from the top down, unlike the uncouth newbies who spread their filth in the nah I’m joking of course, the commenters are welcome to join the knowyourmeme community if they so wish.

This website ahould have abstained from documenting political events that really ineperrably fucked the website and the timeline. Like political memes? Yeah politcal memes are technically memes but we shouldnt have an article about the presidential election in a perfect world

Sure, but where do you draw the line?

yeah that's the problem its pretty ambiguous…..I still feel we probably should have not gone as far as we did. Now its too late to fix but…yeah the meme website should had been a meme website…

"Didnt you become the most psychotic politcal person here for like 4 straight days cause of Trump No! ?"

Yes, absolutely, but that massively adds to my point not detracts….

It’s not that it’s too late to fix, but that the community is too lazy to focus on memes instead.

Yeah that sounds about right

Not quite a rant. I just want to say it's extremely interesting to me that millennials who grew up with 90s and 2000s media many modern progressives are deeming to be racist or misogynistic in some way ended up more liberal than late Gen Z.

Regardless of your stance of the general quality of popular media in the past decade, it's safe to say billions in resources were wasted on a potentially unexpected consequence.

It’s like how boomers were given a sanitized vision of what America ought to be, but grew up supporting the civil rights movement.

Speaking of, for the fauxgressives (I absolutely refuse to progressives) who were adamant that 90s and 2000s media was racist and misogynistic and stuff, what generation did those people come from? I mean, I've seen alot of people blame Millennials for being "woke" and stuff, but 80s, 90s, and 2000s media was what they grew up on, many of which were beloved childhood staples by the Millennials no matter how politically incorrect they were by current standards.

If it was the same Millennials that condemned the Movies, TV shows, or even Video Games they grew up with as some sort of "-ist" or "phobic", then why exactly did that happen? Something's just not adding up here. I don't think an entire fucking generation pushed for all future media to be sanitized and devoid of joy in favor of endless lectures.

It’s not the fault of the millennials that we ended up here. That movement’s origins are closer to ww2 than it is to them.

I really hate this phenomenon where every time someone mentions Lovecraft or his work, there is always some smartass who just feels entitled to mention the fact that he was racist. Yes, that is true. Lovecraft was indeed racist, and he was considered extreme even for his time, although in the end he did somewhat change his views on race later in life when he married a Jewish woman, but all that in the end is completely irrelevant, not just because Lovecraft has been dead for almost a century now, but because his racist views did not factor into his writing at all. The man was clearly more interested in writing stories about the irrelevance of humanity in face with the cosmos than what he thought about Mr. Tyrone that lives in the next block. You don't need to be racist to enjoy the Cthulhu mythos or know about Lovecraft's views, and you will most certainly not be turned racist by reading it. Racism is completely irrelevant to the mythos, with the exception of three very specific short stories. To constantly point it out is dumb and does not make you virtuous in any way. By doing so, you're just being annoying.