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What generation do you identify with
Millennial
So we grew up with some absurd humor, especially in the early days of the Internet. Gen Z is just the logical evolution of that. Their humor tends more towards pure surreal abstract meaningless, and that's the joke.
Granted sometimes there's an inside joke with a kernal of basis in reality, but generally speaking if you are confused about what it means, that's probably the point
Here’s a visual depiction sent to me by my Gen Z kid, who thought this was hysterical
Well I mean, while Gen-Z humor and memes are mostly a lot more abstract and surreal and while there are elements of that in the beans meme it's not really just that. It's a concept piece. In a similar way Warhol's Campbell's Soup was and similar pieces of art.
The whole point was to make a point about something, namely, like the title of the post lays it out itself "I heard that lemmy will upvote anything. This is literally just a can of fucking beans". What it says about the lemmy community, maybe nothing, maybe it's just a fucking can of beans and there really is no intended or inherent deeper meaning and that is irrelevant really.
My point being, it's kind of all things you talked about, but even more, but also just beans. Schrödinger's beans.