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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 a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
  7. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You still were subjected to the constant imaging exposure

You might not have noticed but your brain did

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Even still, it was always either

A) Shit I'd absolutely never buy

B) Shit I was planning on buying anyway before the ad

C) The ad reminds me "oh yeah I do need new underwear" (idfk lol), but even then I just mentally log that and go buy underwear later, never "click the add and buy those underwear," not even necessarily the same brand at another retailer, like instead of Hanes™ the ad could say "Underwear^TheConcept" and it'd be the same thing.

The targeting seems to not be worth piss to me imo.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Most advertising isn't trying to convince you to buy product X that's being advertised. It's trying to get you to think about the brand itself. They're saying "Buy this fridge from Brand A" but they're not actually trying to sell you a fridge, what they really want is for you to think of Brand A the next time you're looking for a new appliance or some other product they sell.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

But I already know I want a Speed Queen, so when Samsung advertises whatever shit new Samsung AI Washer/Dryer with wifi and bluetooth horse shit, my brain goes "ahh yeah put more money towards that Speed Queen." And then when I go to replace my phone I go "hmmm lets see what can use grapheneOS" and Samsung loses again, then I go to replace my TV and get a used Vizio from 2008 at the flea market, etc..

It just doesn't work along "brand" lines at least for me.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Everybody thinks advertising doesn't work on them.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago

At least some of them have to be right.