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I've been seeing this trend that's been going on for the past 5-6ish years, where people make memes about how the year's horrible and how he/she wants to go back to "a simpler time."

On my end, I'm just curious as to why modern-day meme culture is so obsessed with natural disasters, riots, politics and so on. See, back in say 2013, things like politics didn't get as much attention on the site, and I'm wondering what led this site down that path in the first place.

I feel this site would be made a better place and give it a more fun/positive environment if it went back to its roots. Some of the memes (Cum chalice, Abby Edits, Lego City Helicopter, Mio Honda) we've gotten this year are the most fun I've had with memes in a long time, comparable to the golden and silver ages in fact.

What do you think?

I'll see a lot of stuff on twitter with some relation to politics, and it's just "oh okay, someone said something dumb, next". Barely even registers to me.
Then I go on KYM and see there's an entire article dedicated to that one particular instance of someone saying something dumb.
I understand that there's no limit to how many articles can be on the site, but seriously, making an article for every single time someone says or does something the slightest bit outrageous, well, it makes people think that the entire world is crazy.

And on every one of these articles, the same exact accounts bust out 5 bajillion paragraphs about why this dumb thing someone said is proof that society is decaying and that things are getting worse (and twitter bad upboats pls). It just feels so fucking pretentious to me.
Then, whenever actual memes are given articles, there's a fifty/fifty chance that KYM will think it's fun, or find some reason to hate it.

So, I'd say the problem is articles laser focusing on every time a political statement gains a smidge of traction, and thus the userbase looking at it and letting it feed into their bias.
For instance, Tucker Carlson's "We Have to Fight to Preserve Our Nation & Heritage" was just something I saw on twitter, among thousands of other political tweets. But it gets an entry with the only impact shown being a handful of tweet responses, and lo and behold, most of the comments take it the complete opposite way of how it was interpreted, and say "Oh it was a benign statement, damn crazy liberals". So I dunno what staff was thinking documenting it, when it just served to further people's biases on here

There is a lot more people on the Internet once mobile devices really took off. It's as if there are more people to fill in the gaps.

It's not so much that politics themselves are more potent, it's that there are much more people to bounce around such topics with without even a care about niche meme culture. It's a lot more vocal once figureheads get involved too, to stoke the fire.

KYM here just decides that such discourse is on par with what once was for whatever reason. I personally believe twitter screencaps, instagram blowups and minor real-life happenings fall under a different label: gossip.

I just wanna meme, for god's sake.

but for real I kinda get ya. This is a meme site first and foremost ideally.

but on the other side I kinda feel this is both one of the few places where I can just at least have somewhat calm & rational discussions about politics with other people and hear about recent events. It's not my only source[and it shouldn't be] but I don't feel as confident discussing politics elsewhere.

I actually suggested making a spinoff site dedicated to political events a while back. Call it "Know Your Gossip" or "Know Your Politics"

Didn't read any of this, went right to post

Yes.

Based

What I really want to know is when we're finally gonna do something about this. It's been long overdue.

Knowing how slowly things change here, this will likely continue for years. That is, unless a competing site or something appears.

This is actually a really good idea.

I've been lurking around on this site for a year or two now, before deciding to jump in and participate, and I'm finding that we're just ending up with far too much political clutter.

I generally don't mind, as some of it can be quite entertaining; but it just drowns out every other genre of meme and it means nothing else get's it's time to shine, which is a real shame because I'm sure we're probably missing out on some true gems because of it.

And know your booru for all the waifu post on here.