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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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[โ€“] Pappabosley@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Overall I agree with yourself and the original reply, I recall Will Smith (not my usual go to reference) being asked about the stupid esoteric bullshit his son was always posting - his reply was basically, thank God Twitter wasn't around when he was young, people just forget the shit you did.

We should definitely get over people doing dumb shit sometimes, however people often try to pass things off as just dumb shit, when it's actually a pattern of behaviour. Personally I think it's about accepting that people can learn and change, maybe you posted something stupid 10 years ago, are you still doing it? Can you reflect and say that was a bad choice? This is how I look at it.

[โ€“] lifeinlarkhall@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Yeah I think when it's a bunch of adults brigading against a 15 year old who did some dumb shit and it got caught on video it's gone way too far. Let the parents, teachers whoever is actually involved with the situation deal with the kid.

I've seen some ridiculous stuff on reddit with people vying for kids to be beat up over, honestly, stupid stuff but not dissimilar to crap I did at that age. When I got caught I was just disciplined by my folks, grounded or something.

Some of that stuff IS funny to look back on - because it wasn't caught on video and you can choose your audience to reminisce with like jfc what was I thinking, funny but damn that was a dumb/dangerous thing to do. In my 30s and still finding silly stories to tell my folks about shit I did they never know about. We roll our eyes, have a laugh or a omg, and thank god that I grew up alright ๐Ÿ˜