The original rule of the subreddit was that you don’t leave without posting a (random) image in your phone’s photo gallery
Since you can’t really make a post with no title, the lazy-ish attitude made people just post the picture with just “rule” as the title, as if they’re saying “I’m posting this because of the (sub) rule”
Imo this (the “post from your photo gallery” thing) created an unusually diverse atmosphere, where (more or less) everything went, and unexpected amounts of vibes were created
Since most people looking at the sub would probably already be looking at other shitposting places (on or off reddit), and so they’d have the latest freshest memes in their collection, sometimes ones that wouldn’t ordinarily be posted on main meme subreddits
Of course, after a while, people started converging their posts more and more, turning it into more of an actual themed subreddit, and they started diverging from saying just “rule”, to “XYZ rule”, or incorporating “rule” into a sentence they’d accompany the image with
Also, a sorta pseudo-conversation, question, or announcement/soapbox atmosphere got created with some of the images, where someone would say or ask something with a meme that you could also ask in the more general minded subreddits (unpopularopinion or askreddit, for example), or just comment on the meta of the sub
Why does every post have rule in the title?
The original rule of the subreddit was that you don’t leave without posting a (random) image in your phone’s photo gallery
Since you can’t really make a post with no title, the lazy-ish attitude made people just post the picture with just “rule” as the title, as if they’re saying “I’m posting this because of the (sub) rule”
I always pick my image deliberately, could I be banned for breaking this rule?
Nah
Good, because I’d definitely get banned for truly random picks
Imo this (the “post from your photo gallery” thing) created an unusually diverse atmosphere, where (more or less) everything went, and unexpected amounts of vibes were created
Since most people looking at the sub would probably already be looking at other shitposting places (on or off reddit), and so they’d have the latest freshest memes in their collection, sometimes ones that wouldn’t ordinarily be posted on main meme subreddits
Of course, after a while, people started converging their posts more and more, turning it into more of an actual themed subreddit, and they started diverging from saying just “rule”, to “XYZ rule”, or incorporating “rule” into a sentence they’d accompany the image with
Also, a sorta pseudo-conversation, question, or announcement/soapbox atmosphere got created with some of the images, where someone would say or ask something with a meme that you could also ask in the more general minded subreddits (unpopularopinion or askreddit, for example), or just comment on the meta of the sub