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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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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A good question to answer that one is to ask if they thing Queer is a slur.

[–] enbyecho@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm curious what point you want to make.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm an older member of the Comm, old enough to have lived through a large chunk of the AIDS crisis but young enough to spend wayy to much time online (yay limnal) and a lot of newbeans who mainly interact online get a bit of bad faith actor brainrot. They claim things like 'queer is a slur', 'bisexual is transphobic' and weird shit like that. Biggest whiplash i had was from someone who claimed 'the q word is a slur' and then in the next breath 'reclaimed' fruit.

Basically their answer to "is the word queer a slur" is a good indication of the mindset.

[–] enbyecho@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I am also older... old enough to remember when queer was a slur until we took it back. And fag and dyke and all those.

Words have power and who controls them matters. And few things piss me off more than having people try to take control - without even asking - of words and thoughts that many of us fought so fucking hard to own.

The bisexual one really sets me off.