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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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[–] trublu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 hours ago

Republicans are truly the party of slamming your dick in the door.

[–] dalekcaan@feddit.nl 34 points 10 hours ago

Turns out when you alienate all your allies, they don't like you anymore for some reason.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 62 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Is this how Twitter works now? Someone writes something useful in a decent place, then the first shill summarises, and the second shrill summarises the summary without even making it shorter? It's like going to YouTube to see a reaction video of a reaction video 🤯🤯🤯 but at least there I know it's actual people because AI can't properly fake videos.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 5 points 4 hours ago

Something like half of the US can't read at a 6th grade level. They cannot read and understand the complex writing at the bottom.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Those ungrateful little shits!

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 33 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I think this is how Twitter currently works. Users share informative information, than an influencer encapsulates it, while another influencer comes along and encapsulates it again but without reducing the length of the prior encapsulation. It’s roughly analogous to video-sharing platforms and reaction videos, however unlike those we can’t rule out the text isn’t an LLM.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

This is huge. A commenter on Lemmy just discovered this simple hack that has been plaguing social media since the 90s. Read to the end to understand how. So this Lemmy commenter replied to another comment--this is so unchained, this is why I love social media--that was itself a reply to an image of some other replies originally spotted Garfield on reddit. They found that you can get people already primed for scrolling to read pretty much anything as long as you provide an engaging emotional framing for the pointless content.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 points 41 minutes ago

People are a problem.

[–] qqq@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

We just need to ratio the original now

[–] SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

For short clips, I think that this kind of "this guy said this" content is very achievable for AI - example (tbf this one is still 'person-based' as it's motion ~~capture~~ controlled)

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 115 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

whoa, you're saying a 6 time bankrupt felon can't manage an economy!? SAY IT ISN'T SO!

[–] jack_of_sandwich@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The thing about his bankruptcies is HE still got paid. So they don't make any difference to him.

Just like he doesn't care what happens to this country as long as he gets what he wants.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

You’re definitely right. He’s enriching himself (and, by extension, his billionaire buddies, though the only goal is enriching himself because he’s a self centred pos) and that’s all he cares about. America? Meh. World politics? Meh. More money for him? “SIGN ME UP!”

[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 49 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Business is tough. Companies don’t all make it. There’s no shame in that.

It’s not like he bankrupted a fucking CASINO or something like that.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 44 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] weimaraner_of_doom@piefed.social 17 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Casino: a business where the revenue stream consists mostly of, "You give me money. I give you less money back."

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 10 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Yup. Casinos may as well be money printing machines. It’s essentially a mint. It just produces money after more money. How the fuck do you bankrupt THREE casinos. Holy shit.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 12 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Here's my take.

Trump was in bed with the Mafia since dad gave him that small $1 million loan to get started.

But the real top bosses took one look at Donnie and fobbed him off on the second stringers. The top guys get the money, and the mooks hold Donnie's hand and show him where to sign.

So, Donnie learned from really dumb crooks. A smart crook would have kept all three casinos going, made legitimate profits and done ten times as much business laundering money.

Donnie thought he was a genius doing a bust out* that made him less money, but looked cool.

*Bust out. A legitimate business gets taken over by the mob. Starts ordering all kinds of high end merchandise. Don't pay for anything and sell the stuff cheap to other crooks. Eventually the legit business goes bankrupt, but the crew doesn't care.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Money laundering does seem likely. It is diaper Donnie after all

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 1 points 2 minutes ago

Not just likely. The business was fined for undeclared foreign funds. This got mostly ignored as it was in the process of going under.

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 7 points 6 hours ago

Because you use them to launder money.

[–] pigup@lemmy.world 37 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

No one could have predicted this.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 17 points 14 hours ago

nope. If only someone said this would happen and tried to warn the country. Wishful thinking, i guess.

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 6 points 13 hours ago

No Republican could've predicted this.

FTFY.

[–] spinne@sh.itjust.works 13 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

USA! USA! USA! We did it everybody! Once again, victory comes as easy as a homemade, baked-from-scratch, double-crust, lattice top apple pie made by the housekeeper I hired illegally and continue to pay slave wages to by threatening to report them for deportation. What, I'm contributing to the local tax base because they pay sales tax on the stuff they buy, you should be thanking me!

/s

/s because it's important

/s in case it's a toggle

[–] Dwayne_Elizondo_Mountain_Dew_Camacho@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe you should have elected a racist rapist intead!

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 1 points 7 hours ago

Damn. That’s what they did wrong

[–] lauha@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

Are you saying becoming a US president doesn't make a pedophile rapist into Sun Tzu?

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

GröStrAZ (Greatest Strategist of All Time)

[–] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Claiming to be second or third greatest isn't that catchy. Also, the original one was Feldherr (~ Commander), despite there have been others from that category previously more successful than him.

[–] disorderly@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago

Awww c'mon who could've seen that coming

[–] breezeblock@lemmy.ca 8 points 13 hours ago

Just playing 12D chess boys…