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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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[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Right? He doesn't even know what they are, and while an Em Dash isn't a guarantee of AI, anyone who is at all concerned about people thinking their writing is AI now avoid them.

So if this isn't AI, its someone who failed to think things through. (But its AI.)

Sidenote: wouldn't be surprised at all if Em Dashes leave our human lexicon altogether, given the negative association they've received. Like spelling changes, AI might just make our writing drift away from them altogether, until AI does get exclusive use of it.

[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I use em dashes more—as much as I can justify—because the hubbub made me think about them.

"Trump" is definitely AI here though.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I genuinely was not really aware of em-dashes before all this -- I just used hyphens and semi-colons in pretty much the same way. Now I use em-dashes because it's so easy to do and I don't want to look like a rube, but now I wonder if people think I'm AI.

Fortunately, nobody online really gives a fuck about me or anyone else.

[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If the post was made by AI, wouldn't it be...better? Unless it was prompted to write in this "style."

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Definitely it's best attempt to match Donald trump.

Well, its best given the shitty prompt I'm sure it was given. "Be Donald trump, but make sure you're understandable and don't start unnecessary fights", or something like that.

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Such a shame -- I love a good em dash. Gives a conversational tone while looking much better than ellipses.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I never used them that often. A standard "-" tends to do me just fine.

But it's always a shame to be able to convey less in the same amount of characters.