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2026-07-10 22:18 UTC
Replies (11)
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@HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 2026-07-11 03:39
From what I hear corn “is good enough and its got the juice”
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@SillyMe@piefed.social 2026-07-11 00:28
were you around on reddit when they were obsessed with bacon and narwhals? this is basically the equivalent but for lemmy. if you were not around for that I don’t know how to explain it to you.
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@rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-07-10 23:30
I think it’s fair to call me an elder lemming at this point, as I recall the reasons for both. I signed up on .world with my first account on the last day before the infamous APIocalypse. Along with myself, a lot of us were putting effort into posting good stuff, upvoting, and generally having a lot of positive interactions. Someone on !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world posted a picture with a can of beans with a caption along the lines of “I hear that lemmy will upvote anything. Here’s a picture of beans”. It quickly became the most upvoted post of all time. As lemmy culture developed into a deeply political space, it began flooding !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world with American politics. People got sick of it, and people started doing “we’re posting x now until politics stops”. There had been a couple rounds of various themes, and then someone announced “that’s it, I’m sick of politics everywhere. We’re posting corn”. Cornposting has become the default political purge over there.
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@lillardfair@lemmy.world 2026-07-10 23:10
2 of the 3 sisters
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@DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2026-07-10 22:41
Sounds like a good combination. I’ve never tried it.
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@MintyFresh@lemmy.world 2026-07-11 01:55
Corn is out. Squash is the it thing now!
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@wingnut@lemmy.zip 2026-07-11 07:21
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@btsax@reddthat.com 2026-07-11 21:17
If someone could also explain why half the post titles have the word “rule” in them, that would also be helpful
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@gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 2026-07-11 20:47
corn, beans and squash are known as the three sisters history will say they were roommates.
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@CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 2026-07-12 04:07
It’s earlyish internet culture not Lemmy borne
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@agent_nycto@lemmy.world 2026-07-11 12:19
I was sick of seeing political stuff on the shitposting group so I started bombarding it with corn until it stopped. I had happened to have a bunch of corn pictures saved on my phone because I had flooded my friend’s discord with corn pictures just to goof on her. It spiraled into a glorious corn filled nightmare insanity, and as someone from Ohio, I appreciate that. I think the beans came up later because people like to play with themes.