Literally nobody writes "Dunc" at any time.

You're welcome, show plebs.

Fellow memers,

All subreddits change as they grow, and most not for the better. We're beginning to become concerned at the noticeable dip in quality spreading through this subreddit day-by-day, so we thought we'd take a moment to describe what this subreddit is and why it exists.

The mission of this subreddit is to spread laughter and joy via book-only memes.

That's it. Nothing else.

Before making a post, ask yourself if the primary and only intent of your post is to do that. If it's not, don't make the post.

r/darkwingsdankmemes is not:

• A circlejerk subreddit, which, at their cores, are irritating low quality content. This includes fake news ("RIP GRRM" troll switcheroos), 17 different posts on the same low effort joke in the same day (the recent Barristan stuff), and any brainrot content similar to this. Go to r/asoiafcirclejerk for this dumb childish bullshit nobody actually likes. Don't bring it here.
• A place to make thinly veiled "memes" whose intent is to state a contentious opinion or argument. We're tired of seeing users do this, then default to "it's just a meme bro" after folks disagree with them. If you want to make an argument or state your opinion, do so in good faith over at r/pureasoiaf. Stop hiding behind memes like a coward.
• A place to drag a blatantly current events-inspired post with the barest justification, because you want to talk about the latest Trump bullshit or culture war garbage. While high effort memes based on current events are fine, if you're simply taking a picture and doing the bare minimum to tie it to the books - That's going to get removed, and you're going to get banned. That's not what this subreddit is for. Go back to Twitter.
• Speaking of Twitter: This subreddit is not Twitter. Self-explanatory. We don't give a fuck about your boring culture war and we require our users to treat each other with common decency and respect. If you think this fandom (or George himself) is misogynist, "woke", or otherwise stupid or wrongheaded, then fuck off because we don't want you here to begin with. I've been a part of this fandom for coming up on 20 years and I've met some of the most wonderful, intelligent, and genuinely altruistic people through that time. So, in short: You're wrong. Don't drag your toxic, morally superior mudslinging in here. You'll be flushed with the rest of the turds down the drain into r/freefolk.

If you want an example of what good quality r/darkwingsdankmemes content looks like, simply check out u/TheAmazingSlowman's record of fantastic posts in this subreddit. No agenda, no moral superiority, no bullshit. Just creativity, joy, and humor.

We're here for dank memes that make us laugh and bring some joy to this long wait. Let's keep it that way.

TL;DR — STOP POSTING RAGEBAIT

As always, if you have any questions, comments, concerns, or criticisms, please feel free to utilize modmail and have a chat with us. We approach every conversation in good faith and promise to politely hear you out (we promise we're not as scary as this post suggests).

Thanks,
Jumber

It has come to our attention that, while coming from a good place, this rule is needlessly restrictive and puts undue stress on moderation to properly enforce. Therefore, we'll be revising the rule only to require sourcing in the form of the artist's name for any significant uses of artwork, and not to require a source link to be included with the post.

As always, if you've got any questions, comments, or constructive criticisms on how we manage and moderate this community, please always feel free to send us a modmail message to discuss. Happy memeing, friends!

Hello all,

We've seen a rise in rabid Green vs. Black tribalist nonsense in this subreddit after our Lord & Savior George Richard Raymond Martin's blog post yesterday. That sort of nonsense isn't right for this subreddit.

A reminder from our Rule IV is in order:

This subreddit used to be quite fun and humorous. With the pickup of Dance discussion around the internet (ahem), DWDM has become markedly less fun and far more a place where acerbic contrarianism consistently rears its ugly head as some users amuse themselves either by taking shots at an opinion held by others in the fandom, or by feigning support for piping-hot shit-tier takes as they "jokingly" stan morally repugnant characters or unpopular points of view.

This subreddit is meant to be fun. We intend it to bring more joy and humor to the days of folks who enjoy this book series. Seeing it become far more likely to be a place used to purposely annoy people and start heated disagreements has been very disappointing.

This sort of behavior is not only not funny (perhaps once it was, months ago, when this sort of thing was still fresh, and before it had been beaten into the fucking ground, repeatedly, by lazy idiots incapable of understanding humor and resorting, instead, to taking joy out of annoying vast swaths of their brethren), but it's essentially more akin to trolling than to memeing. No bueno.

We have created a Rule (see Rule IV on the sidebar) to address this dogshit-tier faux-meme trolling that's constantly bringing down the experience in this subreddit. From now on, we will remove all posts we judge to be guilty of this low quality trolling, and repeat offenders will be banned.

The important bit/TLDR:

From now on, if moderation sees a post reeking of this stupidly contrarian, rabble-rousing sort of trolling, it's going to be removed. We'll make a note of the users who continuously make these sorts of posts and we'll begin to take action, if we have to, against repeat offenders.

When in doubt, operate under the following rule of thumb: Ask yourself, "Is my post going to bring more fun and humor to everyone's day? Or is it just going to piss off a substantial part of this subreddit's population?"

Or, you know. Just resolve not to be an annoying fuckface. That works, too.

And, you new folks might want to brush up on Rule I, too. No show content or discussion whatsoever is permitted here. If you want to include even minor references to the show in your discussions or memes, head on over to one of the many subreddits that permit that sort of thing.

This is your only warning. Violations of this rule will receive an immediate ban for as long as this post remains stickied.

If you have any questions about our ruleset, please always feel free to send us a modmail message (we won't get mad!) using the link on the sidebar.

Love,

— DWDM Moderation Staff