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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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[–] warm@kbin.earth 135 points 1 month ago (23 children)
  • Movies, including Home Alone and Back to the Future on VHS
  • CDs, including Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ’Em by MC Hammer and Michael Jackson's Dangerous album
  • A Nintendo Game Boy
  • Rollerblades
  • Reebok Pump sneakers
  • A jar of Gak, at the request of a Dr. Emmett Brown impersonator, who showed up in a real DeLorean and fake hair
  • One of Joey Lawrence’s “Whoa! ’92” hats, which he stopped by to present
  • News reports, including coverage of the AIDS crisis, Desert Storm, and the end of the Soviet Union
  • Books, including a world atlas, history book, comic book, phone book, the Orlando TV Guide for the week of April 30, 1992, and a copy of the Book of - Endangered Species
  • An issue of Nickelodeon magazine
  • A Nicktoons t-shirt featuring Ren & Stimpy
  • A piece of the Berlin Wall
  • A Barbie doll
  • Pencils
  • A skateboard
  • A baseball
  • Twinkies
  • A stick of bubble gum (though no one seems to know which kind)
  • Photos of things too big (or alive) to fit inside, including bicycles, planes, trains, cars, politicians and celebrities
  • A videotape, which was a recording of the live ceremony, shot by a girl named Vicky who stood onstage to operate the Kid Cam
  • The camera recording the tape, which appears to have been unplanned—Mike O’Malley and Joey Lawrence both looked baffled about how to remove the tape from the camera, so the whole setup was tossed in at the last minute

I think 2042 might still be too early to open it, but it will be nice for anyone there to watch it be opened, if they care!

[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Is this a real list? Obviously in 1992 they didn't know that the Internet would preserve the memory of a lot of this stuff so yeah, feels too early. But imagine the world with no Internet that had moved on and forgotten about Joey's "whoa!"

[–] ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It sure feels real. I have a very vague memory of all of that happening. Or maybe I watched a YouTube video about it years ago? It's hard to say.

I do remember they had pictures of the lid during commercial breaks for a while leading up to it, to build hype.

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