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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 a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
  7. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] python@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There's also re-reading books you read as a child and going "Oh, this influencing my development makes a lot of sense"

I'm pretty sure either Black Beauty or White Fang turned me into whatever the hell I am now

[–] JeanValjean@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Les Mis was this book for me, if it wasn't obvious by my username.

[–] mika_mika@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Hmmm. Was it? Or were you just a theater kid who was jumping on the bandwagon trends of the time? (Kidding)

[–] NannerBanner@literature.cafe 1 points 1 week ago

Oh my god. I never even thought about black beauty influencing me. I always chalked it up to robin hood, star fox and some weird fusion of the dragonriders of pern and the heralds of valdemar.

[–] dkppunk@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

That happened to me when I reread the His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman. Those books really influenced a lot of my thinking in a good way.