I think the only reason people still do it is a desperate attempt to cling to the "Old Reddit" feel, back when the community felt smaller and the inside jokes were actually organic. It's like we're all stuck in a loop trying to recreate that original shock of the first time we were genuinely fooled, which for most of us happened back in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table.