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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.

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  2. Be nice.
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[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 66 points 7 months ago (11 children)
[–] macattack@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

That's the frustrating thing about the current internet climate. In a time when less and less people are interested in researching the backstory of a tweet/policy/person, things like this are shared w/o context. Had to go down a rabbit hole to realize it's a fake satire writer.

[–] eyeon@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

it's frustrating that people react and spread misinformation without doing the bare minimum of research, but I don't think making obvious satire is frustrating. if anything hopefully people learn from it and stop taking screenshots of things as truths

[–] macattack@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

True.

I think that as we move towards shorter and shorter clips/tweets, there's an assumed prior context that is often missing. For example, Borat or Stephen Colbert's character on The Daily Show are clear caricatures but when you have a 5-second clip out of context, it actually feeds into the narrative it is ridiculing.

The same goes for naming cosplaying an elected official.

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