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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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The creativity that came with being bored. Without being able to entertain yourself with a phone at every moment, there were plenty of times when we'd hang out with nothing to do and end up having a blast after figuring out stuff to do. It's so easy now to just sit and pass hours surfing the phone, and I think it's taken the drive for that creativity away.

Also, the acceptance of being bored. We could be content for long periods of time just in our own thoughts. We didn't have other people's thoughts to consume all the time. Sometimes I miss my own thoughts, I don't think I give them enough attention nowadays. Back then we didn't have to work at it, oftentimes it was our thoughts or silence.