Their sidebar appears to be intentionally vague. It is overwhelmingly low quality memes.

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    It’s a meme community where the only rule is you have to post something before you leave, that’s why a lot of posts say “rule”. The reason it’s so popular is because it used to be a super popular subreddit called /r/196.

    As for why it kinda turned into an LGBT-specific community, beats me.

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      Every meme community becomes a trans shitposting paradise or an alt-right nazi gamer hellhole after it reaches critical mass. There’s no alternative.

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      r/196 became all lgbt stuff, so it followed over. IIRC the mods were really trigger happy with removing stuff that didn’t align super close with them politically.

      r/197 formed as a direct response to this, and while at first they had issues with too much bounce back to the right with some gross anti-trans memes, once the dust settled and new mods were added, it became the best sub for just mindless shitposting without worrying about fitting a political theme.