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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€“] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I did some searching, apparently the four colors represented are things like "Reds think speed limits are for people who don't know how to drive", and "Blues think people who don't read the entire contract before signing are idiots" - which contains kernels of truth; it also says that most people have a selection of traits from at least two colors. So basically it's just a serious version of "white guys drive like this, but black guys drive like this"

[โ€“] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I worked some place that did something similar, if not this exact thing. We answered a 20 question quiz of "do you do x, or y? Very in-depth, of course.

It's not an "all or none" situation, but it's supposed to be used as a guideline about how to best interact with different people. Blue/green would prefer a steady, consistent approach. Red/yellow want things fast and aggressive, etc.

What actually happened was people preening about getting the "good colors" that had traits that the company liked, and then absolutely no change at all in the culture or how we treated people anyway, regardless of results.

It was a complete waste of time, but the execs got big wall sized color charts and pinned everyone's names to them, so I guess they enjoyed their made up work for a bit.