Lowercase "nice." Downvotes

About

/r/Me_Irl's Nice. Downvote refers to a series of jokes on the /r/me_irl subreddit about a downvoted comment in a thread mocking the repetitive use of the word "nice" on Reddit, such as in the commonly-used Internet practice of responding to references to the number 69 with the comment Nice. The downvote in question broke the chain of "Nice."s by posting "nice." with a lower-case "n."

Origin

On April 8th, 2018, Redditor^[1] Half_Line posted an illustration of a row of identical people saying "Nice." The person in the center, however, is depicted as dead on the ground in a pool of blood with a knife in their back. Above the character is the "nice." with a lowercase "n." The post (shown below, left) received more than 5,500 points (98% upvotes) and 370 comments.

Users responded to the thread, by and large, with "Nice." However, Redditor^[2] chubby_boye responded, like in the image, by writing "nice" with a lowercase "n." The post (shown below) more than -2,100 points in five days.

Spread

The following day, on April 9th, Redditor^[3] llittleserie posted a screenshot of the comment thread with chubby_boye's comment received -1,809 points. The post (shown below) received more than 22,000 points (94% upvoted) and 1,900 comments in four days.

Over the next few days, users on /r/me_irl put the -1,908 into various other memes. On April 10th, Redditor^[4] Nibbato photoshopped the "nice." and "-1,809" into the Kaiba's Defeat. The post (shown below, left) received more than 4,000 points (97% upvoted) and 100 comments in three days.

That day, Redditor^[5] Lacky12xD posted a photoshopped webcomic featuring a boardroom of people saying "Nice." The person who says "nice." is shown being thrown from a office building window with the downvote number above him. The post (shown below, center) received more than 24,000 points (93% upvoted) and 1,000 comments in three days.

Additionally, on April 10th, Redditor pm-me-vinyl posted an image of Kirby Explains, where Kirby points to "Nice." as the correct response and "nice." as the incorrect response. The post (shown below, right) received more than 1,500 points in three days.

/r/dankmemes Revival

On July 7th, 2018, Redditor^[6] BoBe_KrYaNt_18 shared a screenshot of the original cubby_boye "nice." downvote photoshopped into a YouTube video entitled "10 Most Dangerous Places On The Internet" in the /r/dankmemes subreddit. The post (shown below) received more than 25,000 points (94% upvoted) in three days.

The following day, Redditor^[7] Dankimus__Prime tweeted a meme of Thanos saying "I'm sorry, little one." They captioned the image "When you downvote a comment to -1 in 'nice' roulette." The post (shown below, left) received more than 9,900 points (96% upvoted) and 540 comments.

In the thread, Redditor^[8] NemesisCR received more than -3,000 points for posting "Nice," indicating that they had lose "nice roulette," an online game in which people downvote users at random for commenting "Nice" (shown below, center).

The episode inspired more memes about "Nice Roulette." On July 8th, Redditor YolonabGG posted an image of a man in a suit with angel wings on his back with the caption, "When you upvote the guy with a -1 upvote "nice" comment and save him from eternal loss of karma." The post (shown below, right) received more than 7,600 points (96% upvoted) and 425 comments.

Various Examples

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