it’s less individuals being un-serious and more that there are obvious hot-button topics that a significant portion of the userbase doesn’t have the ability to approach without going full blast “found a liberal on reddit” incoherent. It’s not worth discussing some stuff because you’ll just end up fending off bad faith arguments, so we’re basically just a meme aggregator.

Be as serious as you want. I’m just really sick of the Shrek memeing or any other really repetitive gag being overdone while adding nothing to it to actually make it funny. It’s just annoying.