I think what really grabbed people's attention is that he kept refusing to explain why he wanted to do that.

Whatever his reason was, it was such a stupid thing to be memeing about that I felt at home here right away. Edit: this was a while back now, during the first big migration from reddit after the API change protests.

A woman labeled "Fediverse" is paying attention to her child labeled "moths and lamps" in a pool, while another child labeled "beans" struggles not to drown beside them. Below is a skeleton deep under water labeled "that guy who asked for advice on how to not poop for a week".

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[–] 120 points 1 year ago (11 children)

There was also that one wave of denim covered everything.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I remember a bit of Bean Jean overlap, and I've seen a bean lamp recently, but no jean lamp yet.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago

    Don’t forget about that month of antique memes

    !antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    It wasn't a week, btw. It was three days.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Not pooping for 3 days followed by pooping for 3 days straight

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It was more the lack of an explanation that hooked people, rather than just the not pooping - IIRC, we never ended up getting any real explanation for why this guy needed to not poop for a week.

    It was honestly pretty great, people came up with everything from "he's smuggling himself internationally in a shipping container" to "he's determined to be the winner in a really weird Mr Beast video" to "he's giving up on society to live with the sloths" before it started to turn into kind of a circle-jerk.

    And of course, suggestions for stopping the poop included butt plugs, eating only cheese, butt plugs, a liquid diet, and more butt plugs.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Nope, the poop thing was only entertaining as long as the one poster who started it kept it alive. The beans and jeans thing were both funny for a couple of weeks.

    This moth thing is better than all of those combined. So many clever moth based memes expanding beyond the starting moth loves lamps starting point.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Beans were a good nonsensical way to show people how this whole federation thing works, and to start something rolling. Other memes haven't quite hit the same mark, as they're trying to redo something already done. The moth thing though, I've seen some pretty good ones among the expected. One doesn't create a great meme, it comes to life on its own, often after a lot of misses.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    I think what really grabbed people's attention is that he kept refusing to explain why he wanted to do that.

    That’s what did it for me. I kept wondering how the reason could possibly be worse or more embarrassing than the question itself.

    I thought that “music festival” was a great guess. Those porta-johns get nasty.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What if the concern wasn't that he would have to use a disgusting bathroom, but rather that he takes horrible shits and didn't want someone to know?

    I mean, I'd certainly be embarrassed to have to tell the internet something like "I'm visiting my in-laws for a few days, and I really want them to like me. The problem is that I shit like a farm animal, and they only have one bathroom."

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    My guess was cave exploration. He said he was going to a remote area where pooping was an option, but he didn't want to, which makes sense when you know you've gotta carry that shit out with you in your cave pack. There are only a handful of scientific cave expeditions that go into caves for three days, so I figured that if he said so, he would unequivocally dox himself.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Someone's out here documenting all the Lemmy lore right?

    Only real OGs remember the Lemmy nopoop challenge

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    I miss the days of wizard orbs. That weekend was pure bliss for me.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Seems like it simultaneously last week and also a decade ago.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Dont forget the Fediverse chick. Shes everyones girlfriend.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I just hope Margot Robbie is ok.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Pooping good, not pooping bad.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Taylor swift

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    They’re both deep underwater skeletons and have been for like a decade idk why something that’s like ancient internet history is being treated like something new, Lemmy is an alternate universe or something

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    ¿Qué pasó con los memes en otros idiomas?

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  • I don't remember really remember this but there was apparently also a debate around whether bathing was environmentally friendly going on around the same time

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)