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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 262 points 2 days ago (7 children)
[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 98 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh look, my grandparents PC circa 2005

[–] kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I was in the hospital in 2015 and was talking to the person next to me. He realised I was in IT and as he turned his laptop to me he's like I can't seem to view websites anymore with toolbars up the wazoo. It was already a throwback even at that time

Edit: wording

[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My old motherboard's driver disc from 2015 would install Google toolbar if you weren't careful

[–] kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

Aaah the good old "next next next install" you open the browser some time later with a surprise toolbar

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

In ~2005 I was at a job that provided tech support to local hospitals. That's the first time I saw this image and ... It didn't strike me as too unrealistic.

At that job I once spent seventeen minutes on the phone trying to help a nurse find the semicolon on her keyboard.

[–] kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Times didn't change! Anyone that provided any large scale tech support to the actual average person understands that tech is indistinguishable from magic to them

[–] Damaskox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Would you like some help with your search?

[–] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 13 points 1 day ago

How'd you get a screenshot of my mom's desktop as I found it when I'd be home from college, cir. 2003?

[–] brognak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Banzai Buddy!

My neighbor intentionally installed that shit on his family PC when we were like 15.

[–] varjen@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A lot of people installed this shit. Because they’re visiting fuckmybeaniebabies.net and a popup is like “Install our spam bar for a chance to win herpes!” And they happily click ok.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 15 points 2 days ago

A lot of people still do that, but it's "Do you want your phone/computer to constantly nag you with browser notifications about our spam?" and they click "Yes!"

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I intentionally installed it on other people's PCs...

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

See you in hell

[–] Ghostie@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Oh neat. Chance to win a free lobster dinner. Gonna click it.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 6 points 2 days ago

You can take a sexy single there

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've seen this toolbar hell before. I've had to clean many a pc of this toolbar hell before.

[–] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd always have to do this crap to our old Sony VAIO desktop (that was mine, until I went to college and my mom took it over). Then my mom would get mad that I "messed up the computer" because I'd delete this crap and apparently she used it?

[–] NannerBanner@literature.cafe 2 points 1 day ago

What's that relevant xkcd about workflows? /shudder