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People Who Sort By New

People Who Sort By New

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Updated Apr 02, 2019 at 07:53AM EDT by andcallmeshirley.

Added Mar 26, 2018 at 04:18PM EDT by Adam.

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People Who Sort By New refers to characters joked about in Reddit memes as judges for popular content in meme-based subreddits. As subreddits default to showing popularly upvoted content first, the "People Who Sort By New" are credited as the reason a subreddit's front page shows content.

Origin

While it's unclear as to when jokes about "People who sort by new" began, it appears to have started on Reddit in March of 2018. One of the earliest popular posts referencing people who sort by new appeared on March 7th, 2018 on /r/me_irl,[1] gaining over 27,000 upvotes (shown below).


stock photo of two excited kids watching a rocket launch representing me getting to see good content thanks to people who sort by new

Spread

Many of the original posts making the jokes appeared on /r/me_irl. A post from March 15th, 2018 gained over 50 upvotes (shown below, left). Another post from March 24th gained over 460 upvotes (shown below, right).


They look at the tiny 1% of memes on the front page Over 1 000 000+ Me irl subs They don't sort by new They don't sort by new Bad meme

After spreading on /r/me_irl, popular posts began appearing on /r/dankmemes and /r/MemeEconomy about people who sort by new. For example, a post using the Because Your Mother Loves Roses meme appeared on /r/MemeEconomy on March 24th, 2018, gaining over 23,000 upvotes (shown below, left). A popular post on /r/dankmemes posted March 26th gained over 16,000 upvotes (shown below, right).


Son: "Dad why is my sister called Peace?" Dad: "Well son your mother thought the world needed more peace" Son: "Thanks Dad" Dad: "No problem People who sort by new" People who new Literally any other memes Memes about people who sort by new so mes about . people who by new People who by new

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The people who sort by hot think inwards, only about themselves And those who sort by /new don't The people who sort by /new are selfless. They only care about others Bad memes People who sort by new eople who sort by hot People who sort by new upvoting memes about people who sort by new how people who sort by new look like sort by.b new When you see the front page is now full of memes about memes albout people who sort by now Your clones are very impressive, you must be very proud. People who sort by Controversial People who sort by Nevw People who sort by Hot

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External References

[1] Reddit – me_irl

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