If I could go back, I’d pass on the beheading. Damn morbid curiosity.
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.
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everyday I'm thankful I never let curiosity get to the better of me as a kid on the internet
I didn't need to, was walking around at my school when some other student was watching them out in the open on a computer in the hallway
Oof, I'm sorry, that's rough. Flash games?
Flash games were awesome
Motherload was the best
I still replay it from time to time
“Yo mama, Osama!”
I remember it! Macromedia Flash sucked ass.
No, Flash was a proprietary platform for animated content before the modern web standards. You're thinking of the MP3 player.
Edit: Clearly a poor attempt at setting up someone to reply with "no you're thinking of Winamp, ..."
I’m not sure if you’re being funny and I’m not getting it. Macromedia were the original developers of various web products. Flash and Dreamweaver for example. They were acquired by Adobe and it was renamed to Adobe Flash.
They’re talking about the same Flash you are.
Flash itself was junk. People made some fantastic things with it, though.
Was there an MP3 player named Flash? TIL
RIP Flash
And now it’s just normalised genocide by countries our governments claim are our allies
Gotta make a move to a town that's right for me Town to keep me movin', keep me groovin' with some energy
I dont know how i did it as a kid. Teenagers are psychopaths I guess.
Well, at least I wasn't the only one who had that song pop into their head upon reading the post!
I'm fairly sure I saw the same beheading video in 2003. I was convinced it was real. My one friend was convinced it was fake. Our other friend couldn't decide.
Now, with hindsight, I'm STILL convinced it was real, but I'm wondering if what I saw was an early version of what would later become ISIS.
ISIS didn't exist formally yet in 2003, but it's not like they just came from nowhere. I'm fairly confident that I saw an early version of it with that beheading video.
was it... was it the one with the chain saw? I dont really want to remember it but its burned into my memory.
The one I saw around the same time, perhaps a couple of years earlier, was from Chechnia. It has always been a favourite execution method of Islamists. ISIS didn't invent it.
My dad sent me that video without any note or warning 😂
I saw it in that timeframe. Sadly, it's real.. ☹️😭
it’s not like they just came from nowhere
So a lot of their members were Saddam's party. Part of 'debaathification' involved putting everyone who had been in the party on a list, but the nature of a 1 party state, that includes everyone from professors and traffic engineers to professional throat-slitters and the people managing them. If you were on the list, you could not be employed at any state enterprise. This made anyone whose job didn't have a private sector equivalent, functionally unemployable.
I'm still traumatized from some of those MySpace pages.