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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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[–] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 254 points 2 years ago (6 children)

The ancient trials redefined for the modern age

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 135 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Really fitting since usually the correct one isnt any of those. It'll be the non-flashy, plain text "download here" link.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 76 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

KNIGHT: He chose... poorly.

Indy studies the array of download buttons.

ELSA: It would not be made ~~out of gold~~ with Javascript.

Indy picks up another cup, a simple earthenware jug.

INDY: That’s the ~~cup~~ text link ~~of a carpenter~~ of raw HTML.

He and Elsa exchange a look.

INDY: There’s only one way to find out.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 63 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Ublock origin makes short work of these lol

[–] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 53 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Me with my element blocker "Yes it is now fuck off <3"

[–] Retrograde@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago
[–] KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

If George Lucas remade this, the Arab would shoot first.

[–] Poop@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The real ancient trials were on the 1990s warez sites where you'd have to hunt for a 2 pixel square link on a giant page of porn ads and other trickery. Then you could get part 42 of 78 of a .rar for some game. Repeat another 77 times and wait a week for it to download on 33.6k and you got a free game!

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And using flash get to manage your shitty download speed to resume disconnections and multithreading the 5 kbps stream to max out your download.

[–] Poop@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

How did I forget about the crazy download managers! Nice one

[–] clearleaf@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

Back when I had this problem, I got past it by hovering over the links and buttons and looking at the little url preview in the corner. The real one will either be on the same domain as the website or it will be something like gofile. The fake ones will go to domains like ads.doubleclick.net and ofksheugj.info.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

the real trial always seems to actually be installing firefox with ublock

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Really? I haven't had any issues on the 4 devices I've tried it on (Manjaro, Android, Windows, Manjaro). And the Windows was a locked down school version.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think the joke is how many people are stubborn to move to firefox

[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

both, first lazy and then stubborn in defending their choice

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Every time I see this I expect them to show someone called Wesley.