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.

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Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
Be nice.
No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

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Flaming (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

hypothesis: more than 90% of Tumblr screenshots can be made funnier by removing the last captured reply

vulgarmaw: Could a homosexual lend me, an asexual, a single use of the world flaming? amulet-coin: YOU have obtained: 🔥x1; vulgarmaw: I, a flaming asexual, need someone to please call the fire department. It is an emergency

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

hypothesis: the last reply is usually left there to stop hundreds of people replying that exact same thing below.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

hypothesis: it does not work recursively

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

Hypothesis regarding recursion: see Recursion Hypothesis

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It does if you follow through to the end. There may be local minima on the way.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 hours ago

a very thin stripe of background from the first screenshot. all posts have been cropped out.

mother of god, you were right