What is floptok?
Yeah, I looked online, still don't understand.
A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
The rules for behavior are a straight carry over of Mastodon.World's rules. You can click the link but we've reposted them here in brief, as a guideline. We will continue to use the Mastodon.World rules as the master list. Over all, be nice to each other and remember this isn't a community built around debate. For the rules about formatting your posts, scroll down to number 2.
1. Follow the rules of Mastodon.world, which can be found here.
A. Provide an inclusive and supportive environment. This means if it isn't rulebreaking and we can't be supportive to them then we probably shouldn't engage.
B. No illegal content.
C. Use content warnings where appropriate. This means mark your submissions NSFW if need be.
D. No uncivil behavior. This includes, but is not limited to: Name Calling; Bullying; Trolling; Disruptive Commenting; or Personal Criticisms.
E. No Harrassment. As an example in relation to Transgender people this includes, deadnaming, misgendering, and promotion of conversion therapy. Similarly Misogyny, Misandry, and Racism are also banned here.
2. Include a community or instance title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities or instances all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
3. Follow the formatting. - The formatting as included below is important for people getting universal links across Lemmy as easily as possible.
Please include this following format in your post:
[link text](/c/community@instance.com)
This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won't
You should also include either:
or instance.com/c/community
Q: Why do I get a 404?
A: At least one user in an instance needs to search for a community before it gets fetched. Searching for the community will bring it into the instance and it will fetch a few of the most recent posts without comments. If a user is subscribed to a community, then all of the future posts and interactions are now in-sync.
Q: When I try to create a post, the circle just spins forever. Why is that?
A: This is a current known issue with large communities. Sometimes it does get posted, but just continues spinning, but sometimes it doesn't get posted and continues spinning. If it doesn't actually get posted, the best thing to do is try later. However, only some people seem to be having this problem at the moment.
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What is floptok?
Yeah, I looked online, still don't understand.
I tried to explain it in my reply to Varyk's comment
never heard of floptok, what's that?
These are various memes which eventually became sth like a subculture, mainly on tiktok. It encompasses for example Cupcakke remixes, jiafei and many other stuff. It's also connected to expressive language, words like "slay", "ate", purple heart core (💜), and usage of sparkles (✨) and painted nails (💅) emojis. Flops oppose the so-called "Daboyz" which encompasses modern culture of young manosphere, fascist teens, geotubers, and gen alpha. The traits of Daboyz is the usage of incel slang like "alpha/sigma" and gen alpha slang like "skibidi ohio gyatt", as well as characteristic emojis (💀, ☕). This, this and this video can be helpful to get it.
This post just rocketed me into menopause
I haven't made it past the first video. The sincerity with which the line "The multiverse of floptok memes kept growing and blending into each other until they finally reached the height of enlightenment; The knowledge could not be contained within itself anymore and the community burst open with Floptropica" was read nearly made me question my own sanity.
lol what 😭
Just made me feel elderly is all
Oh, I see, i didn't get it at first. If you're not into recent trends it doesn't make you elderly or sth, i had the same feeling even if i'm a teen, about various stuff, so whatever. Memes and trends nowadays don't last more than a week (tho it seems that floptok is still going but it's an exception)
damn thank you I really appreciate that explanation and will check out those videos.
I understand half of enough of that to know what you mean by context, and you really tied a lot of it together for me just now.
I don't have tiktok so I'm sure I'm sitting out a lot of cultural tides at the moment.
I deleted my tiktok account, and I feel pretty much the same, I have no idea about recent trends or whatever, but I liked floptok and didn't want to give it up just by deleting tiktok, there are still floptok communities on non-fediverse social media, but it would be cool if they existed on fediverse too. It's also been quite long since it's appearance and it still hasn't died as a meme, i suppose.