I'm probably not the best person to answer because I blocked !memes@lemmy.ml but it seems like the latest trend is to post old school memes. It gives the older users a sense of nostalgia to a time in the early days if the internet. So I suspect a lot of people have focused on !antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world since it's now a community.

Just like any internet trend, it will come and go quickly until the next fun and exciting thing takes its place.

So, that's kinda just how meme culture works in larger communities. It's extremely iterative. What happened is all those old posters are still around, they just switched to making content using older templates, and reminiscing about their favorites of the past.

This is a pretty big wave, this isn't beans or something, this took over almost the whole Lemmyverse, so it'll probably leave a minor lingering popularity. My guess is it should mostly be passed in another couple days or so, when people start running a little lower on content. The number of good ones is large, but fundamentally finite.

Meme culture is less the standard human-herd behavior and something quicker and more unitary. It's best visualized as a huge flock of birds or school of fish. Who's in charge and where is it going? No clue. It's going there though.

Lemmy trends burn bright and fast.

It was memes, then beans, now antique memes and next week it'll be something new. People will be looking back on this fondly, I'm sure.

I'm Lemmy4Lyfe, but I just couldn't anymore with those damn beans

It seems to me like "memes' which I think was at lemmy.ml has disappeared. Was really cranking out the memes not long ago.

Edit: It reappeared? Lemmy can be like a twilight zone sometimes.

It's not just the same people, (re)posting whatever seems popular at the moment?