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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€“] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is the best thing I have seen on the entire internet in my entire life

[โ€“] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

I used to listen to an actual play podcast wherein one of the cast was really good at specifically identifying phrases and sentences that could be sung to the opening lines of "Camptown Races" and singing out "DOO-DAH! DOO-DAH!!" My favorite one was "Polynesian shark-tooth sword." (This might be a Kingdom of Loathing thing?)

And then, of course, there's the xkcd and resulting generators that, beautifully, find Wikipedia articles (or really any random line of text) that can be sung to the tune of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." I especially like the ones where they fit surprisingly well and you're also like, "wait, why is that a Wikipedia article?!" like "Private Purchase Naval Weapons," or the ones that are only singable because of a parenthetical clarifier like "Silver Comet (roller coaster)."