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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 a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
- Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
- No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.
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I thought “bless your heart” was just a meme up until I went back to my Midwestern home state with my wife (from Mexico) and our two chihuahuas. In a tourist “town” she’d gone into a bakery and I waited for her with the dogs outside.
Another white family (I’m white) had walked up and started talking to me. They were pretty friendly up until I mentioned we were visiting from Los Angeles at which point they responded “bless your heart” in a heavy southern accent and immediately walked away. It was kind of jarring seeing that kind of behavior after years of living away from there.
Some small town rednecks think larger cities are some sort of crime ridden hell hole where you have a 78.3% chance of being murdered on any given day.
I think they're really just afraid of traffic and people who aren't white.
I mean... It is a meme.
I feel like everyone is forgetting that memes are any idea that spreads like a virus, and not just .webms of tweets with the phrase "nobody:" at the top
It's offensive (for me) to consider the "nobody:" posts memes.
Likewise, expressions are not memes either.
I will gatekeep this, and if you think that's wrong, just think of it like I'm making gatekeeping a meme.
It's ok to have an opinion, even when you're objectively wrong. A meme is just 'a unit of cultural transmission', and image macros and funny pictures are all memes, just like phrases or dances are as well.
Expressions aren't memes, huh. I give that a 23 skidoo out of 10.
Bless your heart