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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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[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This could have been effective. Instead they chose to showcase a thing which gets manufactured everywhere in the world. Media literacy is dead, god help us.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bro... did you completely miss the fact that they're assembled backwards?

[–] PoPoP@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're the one completely missing here. This meme is ineffective because flip flops are manufactured everywhere and nobody screws them up. So what could have been a slam dunk here is more like OP slamming their forehead on the rim. Anyone who doesn't have their head up their ass or zero clue about how reality works see this and just thinks "nah that's fake" and they're correct in saying that media literacy is dead because this is getting way more genuine engagement than rock bottom low effort propaganda should get.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Anyone ... see this and just thinks "nah that's fake"

You're being thick headed.

Most people look at that and go "haha, they're making a joke at America's expense".

The image being fake is irrelevant, it's just a prop to setup the joke.

[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago
[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Media literacy is dead, god help us.

I mean... A kind of literacy is clearly dead here...

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago

Observation skills are dead.