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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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[โ€“] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Lol Reacher is the most "Mary Sue" (or whatever he male equivalent) character I've ever seen on TV.

[โ€“] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

"Gary Stu" is a pretty common substitution. And I agree, but the show is still fun. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] Soggy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Eh. He's only good at things that can be solved with violence or stoicism, hurts himself and others by being emotionally unavailable and poorly socialized, and is constantly running from his past figuratively and literally. It's basically the same archetype as the hardboiled detectives from a century ago.

[โ€“] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think that picture is from Ministry of ungentlemenly warfare.

[โ€“] meekah@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It is, and he plays a character with exceedingly limited range in that movie lol

[โ€“] TammyTobacco@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I really enjoyed his attempt at a Dutch accent

[โ€“] meekah@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've heard Marty Stu to describe that trope for make characters

[โ€“] Slovene85@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No no. You see, a male character is awesome and badass and alpha male while the female version is just a Mary Sue and woke and forced diversity and blah blah blah.

[โ€“] Auli@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Well you see they grew up watching Arnold and Stallon. So that is OK.

[โ€“] deacon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I actually unfamiliar with that trope

[โ€“] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A self-insert (by the author) character who is unreasonably good at everything they attempt.

[โ€“] deacon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Thank you for my new knowledge.