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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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[–] Chriswild@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It can have half truths but it's really hard to be factual when trying to sell a show. Adam is a comedian and an entertainer so any information that can be snagged regardless of validity serves the objective.

It's typically really hard to keep people engaged when you are trying to give neuace and data that's not as conclusive as we want. Hell, I'm trying to be as objective as possible in this and it's boring me.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Still the video games episode was embarassingly wrong...

"They kept video games in the toy aisle!"

No.. no they did not

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

Many of the episodes really frustrated me with the lies. I'm not trying to defend them just elaborate that their objective was never to be true but captivating.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah this is why I never trust anyone who bills himself as a smart guy, because chances are they're a dumbass or worse a charlatan.

[–] KombatWombat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Part of the problem is trying to be authoritative with broad conclusions. You can have a documentary cover a story or a person's life while being thorough and entertaining, but things like an overall industry's practices are just too complicated to go over quickly. People are going to have lots of varying experiences with it, and just giving facts about it misses human elements that allow people to imagine being there. It needs to be a story, but just one story also can't apply to everyone.