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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:
- 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.
- 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.
- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- 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.
- 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.
- Absolutely no NSFL content.
- Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
- No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.
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No, it is not only limited to pic or vid. It can also be a short phrase or even just simple shared reaction. When someone is "meme-ing", they are not solely sharing pics or vids. For instance, if I were to count out 69 of something, and someone were to say "nice", that is an example of a meme that has no associated pic or vid.
Pics and vids are among the most common forms of internet memes, but that does not mean they are the only forms.
Let's take a Rickroll. Is the actual Rick Astley video the meme? Not really, no. The meme is sending someone to that video when they're not expecting it. Here the meme is an activity, the fooling of your target with a link to the video. If I just post a link to the video without trying to fool you, like so:
https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ <---link to Rick Astley song
Have I done the meme? No, I haven't, despite the fact that I'm linking the "meme video". The meme is in the context.