submitted 1 year ago by favrion@lemmy.world to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[-] SingularEye@lemmy.blahaj.zone 89 points 1 year ago

back on the Old Site there was r/195 which was somebody's apartment number and started out with just their friends. then it got popular, was flooded and became hard to moderate; the mods shut it down in what was known as The Experiment. This was the birth of r/196, which thrived before shutting down the second Reddit API shit hit the fan. And so here we are, on Fedi.

[-] favrion@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

But what is it about?

[-] oatmilkmaid@possumpat.io 70 points 1 year ago

It’s like take a penny leave a penny for shitposts.

[-] gothicdecadence@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

The main rule was that if you visited the sub you had to post a meme before you left, (obviously unenforceable) but that's why all the posts have "rule" in the title. It ended up being a very queer friendly and fairly horny subreddit, somewhat notoriously so lol

[-] favrion@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Kewl.

[-] awesome_person@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

Both the original 195 and the new 196 share a rule

"You must post before you leave"

[-] _hovi_@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

New here too but wym he just said apartment number was 195, new subreddit became 196

[-] Caketaco@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

Good question! We get asked this a lot. Hope this helps!

[-] Treatyoself@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Thank you for asking. I too, had no idea and was too afraid to ask.

I feel like Reddit really suppressed my curiosity to post questions like this because they’d either get downvoted to hell, get shite responses, or just taken down.