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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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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I've said this for years. Make it like The Price is Right and just call people down from the stands to do the 110m hurdles.

Seeing somebody train their entire life and have the perfect genetics for something isn't encouraging normal people to have a go. I want to see a fat builder doing the triple jump for a cash prize.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I was always bored of seeing "the best" to do his thing. Sure it's interesting for a few seconds to see someone go absolutely nuts on a yo-yo, but then it's just noise. And the next one who is the "second best" just does the same thing again, but idk, his string has less tension or some shit.

[–] Potatar@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I still would never watch someone do sports but the other day I had this idea: Children sports must be more exciting to watch because children grow -> they have to adapt to their new arm length on the match day! Whoops his aim is off by 2 cm today, can he adapt in time??!

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 3 points 17 hours ago

I don't wanna hear about all the abuse that would encourage