What's with the sudden boom with memes about America? - eviltoast

I was scrolling through top/day, and all the memes are criticizing America. Oil memes and stuff like that. Why is that (not the memes in themselves, but the near unanimousness of the themes)?

  • FMT99@lemmy.world
    14·
    8 months ago

    Haven’t seen it myself but because Lemmy has a relatively small user base it’s fairly easy to just flood it with content and have a significant portion show up on the front page. If you’re seeing a sudden influx of a specific type of meme, my guess is that’s just someone sending a lot of the same kind of content ar once.

  • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    41·
    8 months ago

    I don’t really know, but I enjoy the topical rants we go on, whether it’s beans, stroganoff or whatever - it’s fun.

    The oil shit has mostly been on point though

    • Candelestine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      For the record, the US has been oil independent for around the past 10ish years or so, since our fracking boom. We’re still vulnerable to global price fluctuations, but when it comes to strategic necessity, we don’t actually need overseas oil, and probably never will again.

      So, it was fairly accurate propaganda at one point, about 20ish years ago perhaps, but things do tend to change given enough time.

  • amio@kbin.social
    2·
    8 months ago

    I thought most of them were from the same guy. One or two were mildly funny, but posting basically the same joke a dozen times in a row is arguably not how to make it shine. Also, a couple people might have heard the ol’ “DAE le USA le oil eggs dee” before.

  • ARk@lemm.ee
    109·
    8 months ago

    Because haha america bad. Everyone knows that this is equivalent to breathing air on the internet

  • pop@lemmy.ml
    11·
    8 months ago

    USA does bad things

    Some people make memes about it

    People in the USA:

    Let’s make our country accountable for bad thing it does

    What’s happening? My fee fees are hurt.

    Or the most popular:

    We don’t even think about your country

    Then they call others snowflakes. ㄟ(ツ)ㄏ

    Aren’t you folks supposed to be all for “freedom of expression” or something. Oh right… that’s only when youre the one spewing the bullshit.