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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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50 years ago? More like 20.
I didn't get dial-up Internet until 1999, and it was still a good few years after that before the global funny pictures economy really picked up.
Google images was launched in 2001 but didn't index that many images. Around that time, if you saw a funny picture you'd save it to your hard drive, because if you didn't then you'd possibly never see it again even if you wanted to.
It took another few years still for the number of indexed images on search to really ramp up.
I'd say 2005 was about the point where you could easily find a picture of a raccoon in a funny hat reliably and on-demand.
Yeah, but 30 years ago houses were stock full of magazines with large photos. I still have quite a lot of those.
And I was chronically online at points in my life and was in 2002 at least, and I'm pretty sure I may have seen raccoons in hats. But definitely well developed open forums by that point, so you could just ask an artistic person to draw one.
Paint Shop Pro came out in 1990, so you could do basic editing, however you had to find the Raccoon. Perhaps copy it from your Encarta CD, after you waited until 1993!