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A few months ago, we were at a supermarket with my mom, buying some stuff.

My mom needed an antiperspirant. When she was about to grab a black one, I heard a guy "helpfully" telling her that she was grabbing one "For Men™", that the ones "For Women™" were the pink ones.

I immediately looked at the guy like "lol what, who asked".

(My mom uses "men's" antiperspirants because she doesn't care about that, and they are usually cheaper than "women's")

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[–] Hond@piefed.social 68 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Cool sport rush smells like mint. The bottle is black and the sticker has a wave of some sorts printed on it(the added surfer is optional). The gel is blue if its a fancier brand.

You buy it because you are doing sports but manly and sweat really manly. Only a cool sport rush can help against that. Its pretty obvious idk

edit: the bottle can be dark blue with silver applications on the sticker too! ngl this shit is more complex than i thought!

[–] arandomthought@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I've seen shaving cream in "sports edition" before. Can you explain that? Does it shave faster?

[–] Hond@piefed.social 29 points 2 weeks ago

Uuuh,

probably because it isnt really that manly to shave anything but your face. But if its done for sports its even manlier.

dont @ me. I dont make the rules.

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[–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

Make sure that your micro plastic shower puff is blue, black, or silver.

Wouldn't want your rubber ducky collection think you were gay.

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 38 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Femininity is nouns (due to objectification), masculinity is verbs (due to the valorisation of action)

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 weeks ago

That's a really good way to summarise the problem actually.

[–] holomorphic@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Verbing weirds languages, but it's apparently very masculining \s

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[–] tino@lemmy.world 37 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

I'm a man and my deodorants are either lemon or sage.

Just stop buying shit.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean, I love lemon, but I wouldn't rub one on my armpits...

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] tomiant@piefed.social 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I washed my balls in 24% acetic acid once.

They did get clean, in the sense that it burned the outermost layer of skin right off, yeah so but just letting you all know not to do that.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wasn't really planning on it, but thanks for the heads up.

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

TIL to avoid washing my balls with concentrated vinegar.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 6 points 2 weeks ago

It seemed like a reasonable thing to do at the time.

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 30 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

My favorite concept is Unscented.

[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 10 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I've found a few locally made perfume of unscented. It's kind of amazing to me. It smells like "nothing" and "existing" as a scent concept.

Then there's a French fragrance of smelling like after sex. Reportedly it smells like, well, after sex. Sweaty, carnal.

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[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

That reminds me of how the original Febreeze was an odor remover that didn't smell like anything. It wasn't very popular, so they started adding scents to them.

[–] you_are_dust@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

That's not entirely true. We can also get smells named after types of wood, metal, or alcohol.

[–] telllos@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Carbon Jungle

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah that's where my head went at lol, we get "fancy wood" scent.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

As a woman, woody scents are awesome. Honestly I find it really silly how we've managed to gender entire categories of scent like this. Like, hormonal sex absolutely does wildly change our scent, but not in a way that makes flowery scents mix poorly with man stink or woody scents with woman stink. Hell, I personally love the mix of a musky woody scent and woman stink. And a man oughta be able to feel confident smelling like a bouquet if he wants.

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[–] robocall@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Copper Bourbon cedar is my favorite

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[–] DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Its annoying that every mans product is "whiskey barrel" or "bourbon wood" or whatever, yet smells NOTHING like whiskey. Its just a word used to describe generic "guy scents" so they dont have to call it 'bergamot lavender neroli allspice'.

[–] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's a feature not a bug. The goal is to smell woodsy like the barrel, not like an alcoholic.

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Nobody is stopping men from smelling line vanilla or lavender.

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[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

'Autumn Breeze' probably has a different vibe if you happen to live down wind from the municipal dump.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 7 points 2 weeks ago

"Brown Fog"

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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Heavily scented shampoo, shower gel etc. is annoying anyway. I'd rather use some kind of perfume/cologne/etc. separately. Perfume is its own can of worms, though ...

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Perfume is great, take the time to craft your own, it's never been easier. May I also suggest you do it for yourself rather than some perceived effect on others. I've had complements, and it starts an interesting conversation, but IDGAF mostly, it's for me, I have to live with it, so I might as well enjoy it.

I also enjoy the process of crafting it, like the cat says, "it's a little different every time". Beats the hell out of some off the shelf deodorant or whatever, costs a little more (surprisingly little more, start with the cheap stuff), but amortized over time, building a scent library (essential oils) pays off big time in personal enjoyment, at least for me.

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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I was at the grocery store with my brother in law and saw some guys girlfriend giving him shit over the men’s scents for body wash.

“Men’s stuff all smells like wood. Why?!”

Without skipping a beat, I ran over, picked up a bottle and said “whoa, I want to smell like wood”

Girlfriend glared daggers at me, as apparently I had just diffused the debate of the century, while her boyfriend was giving me thumbs up and smiling.

For the rest of the day, my brother in law and I would respond to everything with “smells like wood”

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago

wood smells good tho

[–] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago

The ancient Egyptians used sandalwood to produce perfume oils. Smelling like wood isn't ever going out of style.

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 weeks ago

I recently bought a new bottle of cologne. Though i didn't realize until i brought it home that the scent sounds more like an intersection where one might find a strip club and it smells like how one of the managers at said strip club might smell.

The scent: Cypress & Grapevine

[–] Ghostie@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

When it is a real thing is always like Tobacco, Bourbon, leather, or some kind of burnt wood.

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[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 12 points 2 weeks ago

Options are tree, cold tree, beach tree, and mystery menthol.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I want to smell.like delicious fruit and sweet things, not like I just got out of Bear Night at Charlie's. Now I did just get out of Bear Night at Charlie's but thats not the point.

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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

I smell like Product The Supermarket Will Drop In Two Weeks.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 9 points 2 weeks ago

"Arctic Thunder"

smells like detergent and piss

[–] hector@lemmy.today 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

It's often dumb too, there is nothing denoting plant smells as to one gender. The smell of flowers, of herbs, is not something one sex appreciates more than another.

Only in the modern era with the advent of drugs and the destruction of small farmers and even most vegetable and herb gardens, with 99 percent of produce coming from factory farms, has it been seen as weak and womanly for men to use herbal medicines, and to appreciate flowers and herbs and the like.

For thousands of years we used plants for medicine, and now it's seen as womanly, and of course the drug companies have campaigned to remove our rights to do it completely, for our own protection. We could hurt ourselves, leave it to the trained professionals that operate on the rules government stipulates. As if we could all get medical coverage and drug coverage in this medical hellscape even if we did surrender our rights to treat ourselves.

I don't think I should have to get a permission slip from a doctor to do things all generations prior to the last few have.

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[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

My go-tos are "fig" and "redwood"

[–] Daviino@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Guys, you know you can buy shower gel in fruity / sweet versions and still be super manly, right? I am a straight dude and ALWAYS use nice smelling bath stuff, because 'ninja carbon fighter jet black 2000 jet fuel' just isn't for me.

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[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm a man and don't like most scents of the deodorants/antiperspirants "for men", so I just use one "for women". I smell fruity instead of some agressive chemical fragrance.

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I'm male but I use women's/gender-neutral deodorant and hygiene products because men's tend to be more chemically and smell like dudes in the locker room who stand too close to you. They also dry my skin out.

Like, why are all the good hygiene products marketed towards women? Of course men's are cheaper, because they're shit.

I like herbal scents and use the Arm & Hammer deodorant.

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

I don’t mind smelling like Swagger

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