Editing DeepFriedMemes (section)

==== [[Govern]] ====
{{Quote|I'll start off by saying that this subreddit means a lot to me, as silly as it sounds. I used to like the subreddit with it's original style of humour that was unique to the genre of deep fried memes. Nowadays the sub is a shell of its former self, and it doesn't matter how much we try to fix it, people simply will not listen to what moderators have in mind for the subreddit, despite only having good intentions. I believe that the disconnect from the origin and perpetual shift towards edgy and "dank" deep fried memes as main idea for what a deep fried meme is made the subreddit suffer from terrible posts that made browsing the subreddit, especially as a moderator, rather unenjoyable. We made rule 6 to combat it, which for those who don't know, was "Don't post content that, when not fried, would fit better on other subreddits'', in other words, we tried to return to the roots of the subreddit. Obviously a lot of people did not even see the new rule, or just did not care because the subreddit was still getting filled with posts that were totally unfitting.

	I don't feel like this community is going in the right direction and I don't think it is something that I, or other mods for that matter, can fix. People grow up and lose interest, which is one of the other things that lead to the decision to close this subreddit for good. I used to like the community a lot, and it wasn't limited to just the subreddit. I found a lot of good people through the deep fried memes discord, which meant a lot for me during that time. I am glad I joined this community while it was still growing, but I don't know what to think of it anymore. People from the discord noticed the trend of the subreddit going downhill a lot earlier than most other users, it seems like, because they were there for longer and saw it at its peak. I don't feel like it will ever be at it's glory again, and the new user base won't understand that. If you think "You guys totally could have done better!!! Hire more people, get more people who understand stuff then!!!", you should consider that we had moderator applications open for the past 2 years without closing them once. Last few months we had close to 0 applications coming in, and those that came in were quite disappointing as they adapted the style of memes that simply do not fit with the original vision of the subreddit.|u/[[Govern]]_}}