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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.

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[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I feel like I'm missing some important context XD

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There's a song by the '90s/'00s band Barenaked Ladies called "If I Had $1000000." It's about how the singer would buy anything for his love if he had the money to do it; a house, some furniture, a treehouse.

But it's a comedy song, so there's some funny banter; like the fact that he'd buy his love some art—a Picasso or a Garfunkel, and most relevant for this meme, while he wants to buy his love a fur coat, he clarifies "but not a real fur coat, that's cruel." Later that joke is called back as he says he'd buy his love "a green dress / but not a real green dress, that's cruel."

[–] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] pigup@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Brookhaven National Laboratory

[–] tpyo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm in the same boat. This type of post makes me feel like I'm having a stroke

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I gave an explanation here. You might be either too young or too old for this meme; it's somewhat niche, temporally.