No, it was originally an August 2023 shitpost that was like “y’all upvote anything so here’s a can of beans”. That spurred the first wave of bean memes, and it has subsequently been trending every few months or so.

Beans are the greatest symbol of the spirit of lemmings.

They say, “you came here, fleeing horrors. We will uplift you and support you. And, yes, give you gas.”

I miss the time when Fediusers posted just beans for a good while

I’m pretty sure it started on Lemmy.world but I wish I saved (/had a better way to search for) the starting post :(