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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:
- 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.
- 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.
- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- 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.
- 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.
- Absolutely no NSFL content.
- Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
- No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.
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How is this a meme? It's just a screenshot of someone's post.
Some blunt hot take of a politically charged opinion, which serves no purpose but to preach to the choir of people who already agree, is not what I'd imagine most people expect from a meme community without a theme other than specifying a source. It's a meme community, not soapbox for my opinions land.
No humor or entertainement value, no bait and switch, non-sequiteur, or anything to get any sort of reaction other than "you're right and that makes me upset at the state of things" or "wow that's a crap take".
I'm not even going the route of "keep politics and things that remind me of the poor state of the world out of my funny hahas", and you could probably argue endlessly about what the modern definition of a meme really is, but this ain't it boss.
There's plenty of more appropriate communities for this sort of content.
A meme is anything that is spread through sharing and imitation. If you don't like that definition, take it up to that one biology guy who came up with it
By that (definitely incorrect) definition, all content on any mass media is a "meme".
That is actually the original definition when Richard Dawkins first coined the term. Basically it is an idea which spreads through the minds of people who repeat that idea. But it's definitely not the commonly understood definition in a community name like "microblog memes"
Considering how many memes everywhere are just screenshots of a social media post, I'd say it is the practical definition.