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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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[โ€“] Blackmist@feddit.uk 12 points 4 weeks ago

Even people like Tom Holland, his dad (Dominic) is fairly well known in the UK.

He's not mega rich or influential, but once you've got a few million in the bank and can afford to send them to acting school, and for far away auditions, that's a massive leg up on everyone else.

Just look at all the former members of the Footlights club. They're not nepo babies exactly, and most are talented in their own right, but their parents still had the money to send them to Cambridge.

I can't really blame them for it, because almost everyone wants their kid to do well in life. But it does rub your nose in it when anyone says "hard work will get you anywhere", when 99.9% of hard workers are wage slaves.