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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€“] finder585@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some metas feel like they are caused by content creators hyping something up because they had some good games with that setup.

[โ€“] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's because what's "meta" is more about popularity in games that are actually well balanced. Everyone may be using X because it's easy to do well with; but if X is weak to Y and everyone is playing as X, you would likely do better with Y since X is weak to it.

I want to know what a majority of people are using not so I can use it myself; but so I can find the best way to defeat it. To me, that's what "playing the meta" is supposed to mean; thinking about what the other player is gonna do, so I can avoid it/anticipate it and work around it.