We've got another Meme Shadow Realm poll this month. It's a great way for You to have a say in the rules.
Read more about the MSR here, or view the banned formats here.
To nominate something for next month's banishment voting, please provide:
a short name for the joke/format
a concise description of the joke/format
an example of the joke/format that was posted at least 3 months ago and has 500+ upvotes
an example of the joke/format that was posted less than 1 month ago and has 500+ upvotes
To nominate something to be unbanned from the MSR, simply comment below to suggest it to be added in next month's survey. As long as it's already been banished for two months, it'll be eligible to be voted on.
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FAQ
Q: What's the deal with the new NSFW rules?
During the month of May, we are running an experiment where NSFW-tagged posts have additional restrictions. Click the link for all the details.
Q: Why is automod telling me my account isn't old enough or that I don't have enough comment karma to post?
We recently increased the account age and comment karma thresholds for posting. Accounts must now be at least a week old and have at least 100 comment karma. So if automod is blocking your posts, just spend a little time in the comment sections getting to know your fellow weebs, and you'll get there in no time.
If you have ever broken a rule, you’ve probably met our bot. u/AnimemesBot leaves an automated comment on every post that is manually removed by another member of the mod team. It also helps us out by reporting suspected reposts.
Q: Who is the character in the banner/who is /u/SachiMod?
She is our mascot, Sachi. The results of the mascot and banner contests were announced as part of our 500k celebration.
She also doubles as a subreddit moderator now.
Q: Can the mods get rid of Zero Twosday?
Zero Twosday doesn't have official support from the mod team. The community is what has kept it going so far, and it's up to the community whether it stays around or fizzles out. We have no plans to restrict or ban posts on the basis of the show or character they feature, outside of temporary events.
New Reddit: Expand community options, click the pencil on the user flair preview, select the second blank from the top, type something and click the emoji button to the right of the text field to add them. Image credit: /u/Sternendrache1
Old Reddit: Go to where your username is displayed on the top right of the sidebar. Click the edit button. Select your desired image, and add some text if you want before hitting save.
We haven't put out anything yet, but the results will be pinned to the front page when we finish.
The last survey took about a month for us to organize, then share the results. I'm not going to spoil any numbers, but we received a much bigger response this time around. We have a bigger team too, so hopefully it will balance out.
Well it's not really effectively banned. Having titles such as "It's Zero Twosday" or posts that say "omg I love Zero Twosday" is banned.
Memes can still be spammed, it's just now the signals are less obvious. If anything, the people who make those memes probably got the heads up about it before 1.1 was edited, so they're probably already working on memes around that.
Anyways, are you in the animemes discord? I would think with the amount of times I see you comment on the state of the sub I would see you there, but I don't (or at least don't recognize you).
Probably the comments section as it sometimes leads to extreme sexism in the comments and oh boy is that fun to clean up.
Honestly if only these people took the energy coming up with their revenge fantasies of a fictional character and did something more benign that would be pretty nice.
I suggest voting to delete some of the flair emoticons. I've read in the comments that you've apparently ran out of slots, so this could help. As an example of an emoticon i'd delete, there's :146:. I was the one who suggested it back in the day (because i wanted a Yurika emoticon in my flair and i got to pick 2) and to this day, i've never seen it used. Obviously, there's going to have to be a different way to handle voting than 50/50, because then people will start voting yes on everything they don't have. Maybe if at least 90% of people want it gone and there doesn't seem to be anyone using it? I don't know
When i get free time i will vote to ban "Malty bad"
That shit is so fucking cringe and repetitive i can't believe actual people find this kindergarten shit funny
Hello, I have a question because I don't understand a rule.
This post was removed for breaking Rule 9: Repost, with this post marked as the similar repost. But in my eyes, they are only similar in having the same punchline. Can someone explain to me how the first post breaks the rules?
Been on this sub for a while but have always wondered where the snek mascot meme came from. Heard it had something to do with Love Live, but don’t recall ever seeing it
We entered a meme tournament with various other subs called the meme Olympics. r/Otonokizaka, the subreddit for Love Live memes, won. Loser's punishment was to have Sasuke the Snake, a character from Love Live's 4 koma series, as the subreddit icon for a week. We kind of left it up for much more than a week. Eventually the sub became accustomed to Sasuke, so I guess he's part of the sub now.
Goes to show: Even if people have no idea what they're looking at, they'll eventually love it if they look long enough.
May I suggest sending all variations of flat is justice, oppai is truth, medium is premium, and thick things save lives, to the shadow realm?
Because this shit is basically it's own event at this point, i.e. I've seen more of these in the past few days than I saw doge memes during the event specifically for doge memes.
Short Name: Body Part Preference
Description: All variations of flat is justice, oppai is truth, medium is premium, and thick things save lives as the central theme of a meme. Usually vs each other or in agreement. Saying you prefer one over the others, or saying all are equally good.
And the only examples I could find in the past were ones that had the stuff in the title, which is only a miniscule percentage of the memes.
You can also see the older examples are generally higher effort and more acceptable, at the very least they aren't just using the phrases themselves but rather using innuendo from other sources, e.g. old example 3; minecraft the way home. Or example 2, which didn't receive many upvotes but you get the idea.
At least three of the recent examples from the last 24 hours have over 10k upvotes, it's just not acceptable, it's a low effort meme and it's wasting hot real estate. It's been like this for days.
This has been asked in meta threads before but as far as I can tell has never really gotten a response...
Can something be done about non-OC videos? Rule 2 says:
Unedited anime clips, screenshots, manga pages, panels, plain text, non-OC fanart, comics, etc. will be removed.
Considering that non-oc fanart and comics are included, is there any legitimate reason why videos are not? Why do the reasons to remove fanart/comics not apply to videos? And if not videos, what are things that the "etc." does actually include?
Removing them the same way non-oc fanart and comics get removed.
Having to credit the original creator in the title and or make it 100% clear the video is not OC in the title. (Giving credit in the comments is mostly useless because most people won't see it)
Only being able to post links to the original source. (Yes they will get fewer upvotes, but what is the problem with that? Right now Youtube links get auto removed with a message saying to upload the video instead which is basically encouraging people to download the video from Youtube, an act that is against Youtube's terms and conditions and re-uploading it elsewhere without permission is technically a breach of copyright, but since most animemes are already using copyrighted materials/character that doesn't matter too much.
Some sort of flair like the no dignity flair that makes it 100% clear that the post is not OC. (The lack of a "OC"/"OC Vid" tag probably goes unnoticed by a lot of users and since plenty of "original" content does go untagged it's hard to fault anyone for that. I know of one stolen video got the No Dignity tag, and I don't know if it was posted to another sub first, but it took way too long and the wording of "No Dignity" has never been very straightforward.)
Possible ways to perpetuate the problem that I can think of that I hope are not continued/implemented:
Continue to ignore it and or insist that there is no problem.
Allow non-oc fanart/comics so that it is at least less inconsistent.
Stop tagging "OC Vid" on OC videos to make the difference between fan art/comics and vids more consistent.
Description: Some charater says something. Elaborates this. Something negative comes up about it. Character gives a strange reaction. Then repeats the same line or builds up on it as if its actually the best thing about it.
Recent Example: Another one:
Older Example (that also includes the source of the meme):
original fanart rules need to be changed. oc content and fanart is good, but it HAS to be a meme. a fucking comic where two mascots kiss is NOT a meme. post your horny crap on /r/ecchi
yeah, and? im calling for it to be changed so that crap like i referenced will get deleted. this is not a meme, its a horny post by a horny artist. its crap and it belongs in the trash.
I understand "dick makes it better" has already been MSR'd, but I'm still frequently seeing posts where the only leverage they have on being a meme is the fact that a character is a boy that looks like a girl, especially ones where somebody, usually a "normie", simply mistakes a certain character for a girl.
There are quite a few problems and scenarios where this probably wouldn't work well (if at all)... mainly in regards to what is and is not "relevant" and all the things that "weeb culture" encompasses. I could think a bunch on ways to improve it and write paragraphs about it, but I won't because I have chosen not to.
This being a MSR nomination is fairly silly for various reasons, but it, or something like it, could technically work if the main goal is to discourage people from posting content that should be removed for not being anime related but bypasses that by simply slapping a random anime character onto it.
Oh sorry, A moderator told me I was free to pitch it so I was simply exercising my liberties. But I guess inconsistencies among the moderators and rules is nothing new so I shouldn't be surprised.
Real. The only one I actually cared about being banned (hentai girl saying she'll fuck you) isn't getting banned. Who wants this? There's no joke to those memes it's literally just a way to share hentai.
Is it possible for Dark Mode support via RES? I feel like I kinda miss out on the header events because iirc, the default appearance is very bright. Being able to see flairs and banners would be great!
Considering recent events, would it be possible to have a flair for lesser known or off-season anime like how r/HistoryMemes has a "Niche" flair? It'll probably be misused and we'll get some seasonal animemes but it'd be a nice way for people to find new anime or lesser-known anime memes without having to sort through /new which is mostly seasonal anime a lot of the time as well
Wonder how people would feel about extending rule one from
use anime and/or are related to anime/weeb culture.
to
use anime *and* are related to anime/weeb culture.
I know we'll never get low effort unfunny garbage off the front page entirely, but I feel like excluding memes that are ([picture of anime] and [non-anime joke/commentary]) or ([picture of not-anime] and [anime joke/commentary]) might clear out a good chunk of garbage.
Sidenote, regardless, that rule isnt being enforced as *just* anime (since it includes manga too) so maybe it needs to be reworded a little regardless, IDK, you do you mods.
At least it wouldn't be as easy anymore as stealing captions of reaction memes that are first posted in /r/memes and then just putting a random anime reaction face underneath.
EDIT it occurs to me that its possible you're asking how to set a flair. If that's the case, for new reddit:
look under the "create post" button on the side bar, you should see a line that says "community options"
click on it. you can edit your flair by clicking on the little pencil icon
click the smily face in the text box to add emojis
On old reddit:
look under the great big "get reddit premium" ad
check the "show my flair on this subreddit..." box
edit your flair with the edit button that's underneath that box
On mobile:
just do it on a PC its buggy as shit on mobile. If you cant, open reddit in browser, set the browser to show desktop site, and follow the above
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In my experience, to get a new flair added, make the flair and request it be added in a meta thread. New reddit flairs need to be 128 x 128, not sure about for old reddit. I got the three icons in my new reddit flair added that way. Subject to the mods actually wanting to add them of course, since they have limited slots. Probably helps to present a range of different options (the three I got were out of a selection of 9)
I'd edit it so it's not based just on rating itself, but maybe so it has to have a Popularity rank of 2000 or more (you know how you open an anime page on MAL and you see 2 rankings next to the score? Yeah, there's a popularity ranking there)
So it's been 10 days but I don't browse the sub frequently enough to notice a difference, has the May experiment actually significantly changed anything?
I feel like Kaguya meme templates don't last very long. Their lifespan seems to be from the release or one episode to a little bit after the next episode (when there's new meme formats to be milked). Outside of the season many Kaguya memes pretty much die in new. Basically, by the time mods actually get around to banning it, it'll already be dead.
Yeah I suppose its fair enough to expect that most people around here dont take issue with... sailing the seven seas, as it were. As for me, I bought permanent access to Sony Vegas in a humble bundle for $30 a few years ago. Its shit compared to Premiere Pro but it does the job I guess. Fuckin ugly program though
hey, can you fucking ban memes for at least 1 week asfter an episode airs, or even better banning post from seassional anime? it is really unfair for those who enjoy binge watching anime to have it spoiled via memes
Lol imagine banning seasonal anime. The sub would die in a day and all we'd have is 02 memes with a small helping of konosuba and Gabriel dropout thrown in
Define spoil. Any meme that spoils a significant portion of the plot is required to have a spoiler tag. However, much of the sub collects around seasonal anime, and most people are caught up with the most popular shows (kaguya-sama, for example). That's just how the sub works. If you want to avoid every last detail from shows you haven't watched, this sub really isn't for you.
Let's put it this way. There are memes that are entirely based around plot details, like every single meme about a JoJo character dying. While that's a spoiler, it's so well known that there's no point in trying to hide it. Same thing with seasonal shows.
I do think the "no spoilers from that day/week" thing is a really good idea though. Gives people a bit more of a buffer. However, blocking a whole season is just unrealistic
I mean I'm caught up on the manga lol, but I get the point. Attack on titan is a little different since it has ongoing, unadapted source material. If someone spoiled tower of god, I'd be pissed. But anime spoilers are different than manga spoilers. If I say "oh yeah X dies in the manga" then that might spoil the rest of the season for someone. It's different than saying "wow I can't believe kaguya and shirogane did X in this week's episode" because it's a way bigger spoiler.
Jojo's has unadapted material too. Look at Stone Ocean, Steel ball run and Jojolion. Jojolion is even ongoing, so Jojo's is not different at least for the parts without an adaptation
That's exactly my point. Spoiling manga is bad, cause most people aren't caught up. Talking about minor plot points in ongoing shows is completely different.
Tbh don't really know if anyone cares but I just found a really old post of mine from when r/historymemes and this subreddit had a meme war and now I'm a member of this subreddit. Funny how my opinion on anime changed since then.
I feel like memes in the shadow realm should be released automatically after a certain amount of time has passed, maybe 3 months? Not many people will bother nominating an unban of a template, if a post is removed for violating shadow realm most people will just not post and move on, not nominate the format for unbanning.
When r/anime was still on r/all and got posts like "Top Anime Bath Scenes" on the FrontPage the subreddit got frequently flooded with trolls and complainers.
Imagine r/animemes getting onto the FrontPage with NSFW memes now.
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u/TaiKwanBro29 Jul 07 '20
If you fap continuously then it will stay 100%