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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 a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
  7. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 96 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm getting too fucking old, the fucking etymology on this is hurting my brain. I guess I grasp the concept, but wtf does a cake have to do with it. Why can't you just say you find someone oddly attractive or w/e.

[–] nerdyshades@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The "cake" is a literal cake, and the concept is printed pictures on sticks or straws that you put into the cake as you mention or explain the unconventional person. It's just a "viral" online trend, a random fun thing friends do.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That sounds terribly inefficient.

[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 year ago

'Mum, I've got something really important but slightly complicated to tell you. Give me three days to do some shopping, design some graphics and build accessories with them on, then bake a cake 👍'

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

It's for content. Not for coherence.

[–] dufkm@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[–] 200ok@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they meant "hear me out" crush

[–] 5too@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a meme apparently. NerdyShades has the answer, but if you Google "hear me out cake", Forbes has an article about it.

We're all officially old!

[–] 200ok@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I shouldn't be surprised. This seems normal by "skibidi toilet" standards.

[–] janNatan@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like it might have been a typo of "case."

[–] bilb@lem.monster 10 points 1 year ago

Or maybe "take?" But yeah, "cake" being there briefly made me feel insane.

[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Yeh it was eye opening how far I have drifted from the zeitgeist when I had to decode so much additional context to even be able to parse the sentence let alone see the humour of it. Feelsbadman

[–] lath@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

How old are you? Beef cake has been used to describe an attractive muscular male body for decades. Not that far-fetched to see the connection.