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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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[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 57 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

The aspect of this that really bugs me is that people never get how revolutionary something was. Like taking your example of music, people listen to songs by The Beatles or Nirvana or David Bowie and think "Their fine, but I don't know what's so great about them - 100 other bands sound the same." But the thing is, at the time, no other bands sounded the same, they were just copied like crazy.

You see it with movies, too. Gone With The Wind, Citizen Kane, Double Indemnity, Blade Runner - all really good movies in their own right, but putting them in the context of the movies of the time shows how influential they were. All highly copied afterwards.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't think the Beatles are bad because many others copied their style, I just think that, besides for a few specific songs, I don't really like their style.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

Oh, that's fine, music is subjective. I think Jimmy Hendrix was an amazing musician who could make a guitar do anyone he wanted, but I don't enjoy a lot of what he choose to do with one. My point is issue is that it's hard for us to understand how influential something was if we weren't around when it came out. All the cliches started with something that did it first.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

It's called "shifting baselines."

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

people listen to songs by The Beatles or Nirvana or David Bowie and think "Their fine, but I don't know what's so great about them - 100 other bands sound the same."

I've never heard a band that sucked like the Beatles sucks.

[–] bronzle@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago