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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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[โ€“] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Well ain't you just the most enlightened 'lil woodchuck in the whole big wide forest! Go on lil' woodchuck, tell them how foolish they're being!

In the main, it's not rage bait. It's an overreaction to automatic content moderation that really does demand censorship of terms like 'suicide' and 'pedophile' or mention of violent topics.

Does this need to be carried out to the commonly seen extreme? No, and of course some people do it for the lulz. Does that mean it's all just ragebait? Very much also no. It's almost entirely people being stupid, and a small number leaning into the irritating meme. Expressing frustration with that isn't a bad thing to do, especially if you ever want it to change, even if it might feed a small handful of offsite trolls.

[โ€“] dohpaz42@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

That is an excellent example of ragebaiting.