i remember going to ogrish.com and rotten.com and thinking "wow the internet is fucking great," and trolling people on AIM chat before anyone called it "trolling." then i grew up
Microblog Memes
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:
- 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.
- 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.
- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- 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.
- 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.
- Absolutely no NSFL content.
- Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
- No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.
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Being 12 and visiting rotten.com with your friends after class was our passage to adulthood ritual
Rotten was my go to site for checking whether my connection was working. No idea why.
yea, weird to think i can't really look at that kind of stuff anymore. even the charlie kirk murder--i watched the uncensored front row footage and said "ok, i never need to watch this, or anything like it ever again"
I showed my grandmother that picture of the 12-foot long fecal impaction in a bathtub that was on Rotten and she almost died laughing so hard.
There were some absolute gems on rotten.
That was a passage of some sort.
You can also tell who's been online for a long time, when they're just tired of some snarky troll's shit to block them when their shitty responses are read to your posts and replies. We see things these idiots think nobody else sees.
What digital horrors?
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when us old people were younger, preteens weren't dying from social media "challenges" and/or cyber bullying
kids were dying for stupid reasons, as they always have, but none of those reasons were digital horrors
Are those things really that bad?
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6278213/
if you were never bullied (either irl or online) as a kid, then it seems like something you could shrug off. but no, it's pretty bad