this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2024
679 points (98.7% liked)

Microblog Memes

11270 readers
2596 users here now

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.

RELATED COMMUNITIES:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
all 21 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] deus@lemmy.world 98 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
[–] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is it photoshop or is the raccoon actually in a silly hat?

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

Unbelievably, the picture is of the hat, the racoons was shopped in.

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 48 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Hey, when I was a kid in the 90s if you wanted to see a picture of a raccoon you'd spend all day online waiting for it to load! If you knew the right guy at school though you could get a 1/4" floppy disk already loaded with raccoon pictures so you wouldn't have to wait so long...

[–] Deello@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Don't kink shame me.

[–] emptiestplace@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

omg I completely forgot how tiny raccoons were in the 90s.

[–] Fal@yiffit.net 6 points 2 years ago

Oh Captain Janeway. Lace, the final brazier

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

Big brown beavers

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

5.25", or 3.5"? We had both at my parents' house in the 90s, but the standard was 3.5"

I think there may even be an external 8" floppy drive in my parents' barn.

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This would have been around 95 or 96 so definitely 3.5" floppies. The same guy said he could get me bootleg copies of Duke Nukem 3D and Rise of the Triad and they both came on huge stacks of 3.5" floppies that he expected me to give back to him lol

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

I loved RotT, especially when you'd blow someone up and get an eyeball smearing down the screen hah. (There may be something wrong with me lol)

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you wanted to watch a raccoon try to wash cotton candy, you'd have to find a raccoon and give it some cotton candy.

[–] Asclepiaz@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/Jj4WK1a.gif

Now you can just describe a specific raccoon video and be presented with it by a stranger who also loves this video.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 10 points 2 years ago
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

50 years ago? Yes, that's true, but it was true 25 years ago too. For a lot of people it was true as recently as 15-20 years ago.

In the 90's you'd have to watch America's Home Videos, complete with Bob Sagat and commercials to see the same stuff freely available all over the internet now.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago