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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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[–] gardylou@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Its wild to me that he can't recognize that the media landscape is a fundamentally different beast than it was in the 1970s or even the 1990s. People don't sit down to all collectively watch one thing at this point, the family gathering around the TV each night is dead. Hell, I think it was a central theme of a South Park episode, you know, that ribald show with the vulgar jokes that is pretty much the artistic vision of two specific creators doing whatever they want creatively--a show you'd be amazed to find still exists the way people talk about the contemporary state of comedy.

Like buddy, primitime shows have become 60% police procedurals aimed at an aging audience still primarily watching TV. That ain't because the "PC" crowd has demanded it LOL.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Never even considered the fact that police procedurals are still the dramatized version of cops’n robbers kids games where good guy and bad guy are obvious and no thought is required. Just get the bad guy, throw them in jail. Seems to suit the simplified version of reality a segment of our population prefers, minus the police brutality the shows generally don’t include.

[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To be fair, many Youtuber and Tiktokers that are watched alternatively by younger people aren't intellectual powerhouses presenting super complex content. Not that it's not there, I have a couple of more informative-ish chanels I like to watch, but there is nothing intellectual challenging watching a video about the speedrun history of kings quest IV.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Lol, nobody suggested that the vapid and shallow content on YT or TikTok had any particular value to it. The point is that procedural dramas have an underlying format popular with an age group that might have an affinity for such a format because it aligns with personal narratives they prefer.

Unless of course you are suggesting that the generation viewing TikTok and YT are as vapid and shallow as the content they prefer?

[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

After reading the comment again: yeah, you are right, I missed the point.

Unless of course you are suggesting that the generation viewing TikTok and YT are as vapid and shallow as the content they prefer?

No, not what I was suggesting at all.

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

Did they not? Maybe that's exactly what he's talking about. Take a real close look at producer credits and compare those names politicians