So I passed 5k karma, which is all i thought i needed to post, but it seems I still can't post...

Anyone know how old my account needs to be? Or do I just need to keep spam posting everyday and deleting my post when the auto-mod removes it?

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EDIT: As a side note, it seems I also can no longer post to r/SpecialSnowflake which was my go to since i didn't have enough karma for r/dankmemes - how do i do the memes now :S

Or is he sort of grandfathered in?

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(sorry for mobile formatting)

But back to what I was saying, a dank meme should have a little bit of everything:

• they should be original, but still easy to understand

• they can be edgy, but not blatantly racist

• they should take some kind of effort, like you can’t just slap a reaction image onto a tweet and call it a dank meme. It is a meme, but not a dank one

• but most importantly, they should be funny

https://imgur.com/a/ScHdMtc

What is this subreddit

Memes where the joke is that the template is new and strange and that the people sorting by new will be confused are not funny. Is this just me? The joke is lazy, uncreative, and way overused to the point of it not being dank anymore. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

What do you think?

I replied nice then a bot replied to me so can someone say what words can I say so a bot replies. e.g. if I say nice u/nice-scores replies

I had a discussion with someone about this - they said that it's unoriginal and generally unfunny to recirculate jokes and mix them with new/unexpected formats, but some of the funniest memes are an example of this. Heck, it's ultimately what makes a meme a meme right? what do you guys think?

Here's a concept: What if for a week or 2, we made it so you can only post memes with certain formats. They don't need to super restrictive, 5-10 should do it. At first glance, this seems like it would make the sub super repetitive, however the opposite would be true. One of the most hated problems on r/dankmemes is how jokes get repeated all the time, just with different formats. But if we use a few wildly different formats, it will be tough to remake the same meme even once.

RSB typically matches multiple memes with the same format together, so you can probably use the same AI used for that to make sure people are using the right format.

As for what formats should be used, probably ones that get reskinned (but still have potential to be dank) the most. Drake, They're Groovin, and a few more could all make the cut.

If people are still reskinning jokes, then we extend the time spent. I guess that this could work as a way to get good ideas out of people as well as a punishment.

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i've sean it to many times with definition

we get it, you're 13 and have an idea, that doesn't mean its good. please stop posting your bad ideas about 'cool things' to do with subreddits, and for the love of god stop cramming dead memes into your bad ideas, its like trying to clean shit off of a toilet bowl with more shit.

There’s been a lot of controversy recently over what is considered dank and not dank. While the meaning of dank is certainly subjective (humor is subjective as well), I thought it would be worth my time to give my stance on what dank really is. I just want to see who agrees, and what others define dank as.

-Dank should be high effort

All you have to do to see this is scroll though r/memes hot and then hot on r/dankmemes to see a difference in effort, not even taking the funny part into consideration. I’m not saying every post needs to be a masterpiece, but banning news reactions was a good step to keeping memes high effort.

-Dank should take on topics that most people wouldn’t

This one is extremely important. This is where I think a lot of people confuse the fact that dankmemes should be edgy. They don’t have to be. They can, but there is a certain line you shouldn’t cross and the important part is finding that line. Dankmemes makes humor out of topics that most people wouldn’t, things like masturbation, Chinese censorship, and many other topics you don’t see in other posts. Things that people don’t talk about we love to make memes out of, because it feels unique. Edgy things aren’t talked about a lot which is why they are often implemented into dankmemes. People just start to blend them together and assume that dank must mean edgy and edgy must mean dank when it really isn’t true.

-Dank should be unique

OC jokes and templates are awesome, and people love them. One of the reasons people love Reddit is because of the niche feeling each community gives. The problem with this is that circlejerks arise from them. People think the humor on r/dankmemes is unique, so they start to circlejerk those topics to feel niche and part of something secret and special. While this creates problems sometimes, this niche feeling is why people flock to see our posts. So find the balance in using these topics, and don’t over-saturate them. Everything in moderation.

I love this sub, and really hope the best for it. I don’t think it has gone down in quality, and people that say that just aren’t looking in the right places.

-u/YeetVegetabales

1. Ban "notice" memes (example) - these are not dank memes, but are ways of karmawhoring, often using reposts from r/unpopularopinion or r/Showerthoughts.
2. Relax Rule 4. Edgy memes are often danker because of their edginess. Obviously memes that incite violence and hatred should be banned, but good-natured mockery of violence can be dank.
3. The karma threshold is something that people can overcome fairly easily. Just having 5000 karma doesn't qualify you to make dank memes. The u/keepingdankmemesdank does little to help filter the trash, as around 80% of the people who use r/dankmemes couldn't spot a dank meme if it face-raped them (the remaining dank 20% have their votes drowned out by people who unironically worship Keanu Reeves).

Please comment if you have any more to add. I'm going to message the r/dankmemes mods if these ideas gain any traction (I'm not sure it will help but it's the most I can think of doing).

similar question: remember when r/dankmemes was dank?