Lord of the memes

That's not what I meant, and probably also not what the OP meant. Something is suddenly different for discord to feel like irc, but it's not articulated.

Besides, irc is anything but persistent. If you disconnect, your chats are gone, unless you logged the chat. If you reconnect, you don't catch up on what was said when you were offline, unless you use a bouncer like znc with history (which is also limited to the last x number of lines). John Doe sure as heck doesn't even know what a bouncer is.