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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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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 95 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Not just Millennials. That title set me off as a Gen-X.

Before the internet the most common quote bomb was any Monty Python line...and to their credit, that is still active and effective.

[–] FunkyMonk@kbin.social 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

my boomer parents could do half the 'spam spam spam and spam' routine if anyone said spam.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, first memes were my boomer uncle emailing my boomer dad video attachments. I remember a parody of the Budweiser wassup thing with orthodox Jews delivering whitefish.

[–] ringwraithfish@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago

Memes like Kilroy was here and that fancy S everyone drew in grade school were around before the internet.

Meme theory is actually really interesting. The Internet just supercharged how fast new memes can propagate.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

bloody vikings!

(note: not a boomer)

[–] ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

All my friends can quote Holy Grail but not so much Flying Circus (besides all the most popular lines). Some that I'll always say to myself like a psychopath:

"'Oh, an hoop'"

"Caribou... gorn"

"Oh you're no fun anymore"

[–] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 7 points 2 years ago

I like to randomly shout "Albatross!".

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago

My wife had the Holy Grail CD-ROM.

it was basically just the best quotes you unlocked with puzzles. But it always crashed and locked up at one point so we never finished it.

Gonna have to find that now.