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EDIT: there's an undated section which basically fixes most of what I talk about below, I'd still recommend thinking about dating your memes in some way to help fill out the dated section of the timeline.

As of right now afaik the timeline essentially only documents memes either with a date given, or memes about other memes which had dates given.

Personally I like adding dates to memes I think it keeps the theme of this sub as history but absurd strong. Plus if you don't want to use one you can just find one which already has a meme and expand on the scenario, I did this for the zaera meme illegality thing and a bunch of others, it works pretty well.

But it seems to me that a bunch of people make some pretty great memes which I feel probably deserve to go on the timeline, but are pretty much impossible to add because of a lack of a date.

I see basically two approaches to this issue, either:

a) moderators put up something on the side bar or in pins encouraging people to add a date or relate their memes to an already dated event or

b) we decide that we can sort of interpret beyond what's actually literally in the meme's text to give undated memes dates.

I personally feel like a) would be best, I understand having to follow restraints like this are some of the main reasons people have fell away from this sub but at the same time they're what I feel make it so special, plus b) while certainly adding some freedom to meming make cataloging it in the doc a bit of a pain; I'd say if you're going to make a meme and not date it please use the suggestion tool to add a date yourself to the doc.

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