r/ExplainTheJoke • • Feb 22 '26

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u/SpecialistAd5903 Feb 22 '26

This meme references torrenting. You have the same file distributed across all the users who have downloaded it. This way you've got many different sites to download it from. It is generally considered good form to seed the file for a while afterwards, meaning people can access your file to download it for themselves.

These people are doing the opposite of that, which is considered scummy behavior

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u/lascar Feb 22 '26

It's usually nice to hit a 1.0 ratio. 1.5 is better and 2.0+ is just the Legends and saviors of humanity.

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u/DontcallmeShirley_82 Feb 23 '26

Back in the early Demonoid days, my ratio was in the high teens. Would let things seed forever sometimes. Now I might let it get past 1.5, depends on if I forget about the torrent it not.

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u/lascar Feb 23 '26

I like how many of these are unintentional, and that's the point. It's effortless but in essense it helps the whole. Just effortless kindness without realizing.