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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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[–] M137@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I have a 12-year-old stepbrother whose friends like me too so they often tag along when we hang out. I've had them say "That's the guy/thing from Fortnite!" (Or other random games) so many times. I've had to explain several times that everything in that game is from other popular games, movies etc. (As far as I know, never played it myself).

It's fine when it's some random old meme or viral thing that I wouldn't expect them to know, I just see that as a chance to show them what it comes from. They've become fans of stuff like the peanut butter jelly time song with the dancing banana, crazy frog, Tay Zonday (chocolate rain guy) and more.

But way too many times they've said that for things I know that they know what the original characters are from, it's just that they mainly know those characters from fortnite or whatever so that's what they think of. I tease them for it, in a playful way of course, but it does get kinda irritating.

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

"That's the guy/thing from Fortnite!" (Or other random games) so many times. I've had to explain several times that everything in that game is from other popular games

What makes you think they don't already know?

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 11 points 2 years ago

The third paragraph