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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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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

difference between punching up and punching down

That whole framework is kind of pretentious bullshit. Comedy has no duty beyond entertaining. Good comedy might test boundaries by teasing "correct" thought in all domains especially in our "sacred", arrogant assumptions. Ultimately, they're mere words & thoughts that at worst offend: anyone who imagines actual harms beyond mere offensiveness is a bit full of themselves & needs to learn humility perhaps through extra derision of their bullshit.

[โ€“] Nora@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago

Eh I dunno, its less of a framework you should operate on, and more of a general rule of thumb. it's probably possible to tell offensive jokes about minority groups that youre not a part of in a funny manner, but idk.