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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.

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  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.
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[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit. I'm wasting my time on YouTubers' analyses of media.. and apparently also on reading Watchmen 3x and watching every film and show and trying to understand it. You're brilliant.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

i have the advantage over a lot of these media analysts that: i'm old. i was there for the comics industry bubble. i was there before comic book movies were respected. i was there before we got tired of every movie and tv show being part of the mcu.

i'm also a gigantic nerd. i've been posting online since the 90s. i joined twitter when it was an experiment to see what would happen if people could post to the internet without an internet connected device. i was using linux in 2002.

as such, a deep dive into these comic book artists, what they thought, and what their backgrounds were has given me some insights about how the development of comic books as an artistic medium has a lot of parallels to other countercultural movements, like hip hop. comic books are a community. the artists who make them are all in a conversation with eachother about what right and wrong is as they try to influence us, the readers. it's no coincidence that the origins of both DC and Marvel are deeply rooted in the production of military propaganda. these were all people who knew about propaganda, media, and message dissemination who wanted to use those skills to influence the public.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We have a lot in common. Xennial here. I still like the MCU though 😁

Irc? Icq? MTG revised? Civ1? Lifestream.fm?

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

i still like things from the mcu, but i miss when we got 3 consistently high quality movies and 1 or 2 creative shows instead of 5 forgettable moveies and 3 tv shows that center on big mcu plots without moving them forward because even disney knows it's folly to expect everyone to see all the mcu stuff

oh. and irc is perfect and beautiful. kids these days and discord…