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Take Post Aesthetics, a massive group that helped lay the foundation for groups like NUMTOT and WIPBTM. At its height, it had 40,000 members sharing a constant stream of original memes, screenshots, and funny anecdotes. As the Awl said in a memoriam for Post Aesthetics, “In the cultural universe of Weird Facebook, it was a heavy hitter a little danker than Bernie Sanders’ Dank Meme Stash, and a little cooler than Cool Freaks.”

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Post Aesthetics fell apart when the excessive use of the “dat boi” meme sparked a heated debate about its (predominantly white) member’s frequent use of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and whether a Dadaist meme constitutes cultural appropriation. The group was flooded with dat boi memes and discourse, and overwhelmed moderators took the brunt of their members’ anger for both not banning the memes altogether and also canada goose bending to “PC culture.” A mod told Paper in 2016, “The problem with organizing a group of 40,000 members with no point is that trends occur really quickly when people don’t know what to post, but want to engage.”

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