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

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[โ€“] Free_Opinions@feddit.uk -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Cultural meme is, like you said: unit of cultural information that spreads by imitation.

Internet memes are pictures that are either funny, ironic, or relateable.

Those are two different things and this is neither. This is a screenshot of a political opinion.

[โ€“] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Internet memes are pictures that are either funny, ironic, or relateable.

Yes, and that is also a:

unit of cultural information that spreads by imitation.

Sharing/Crossposting/rebloghing/etc.

very simple concept you're ailing to grasp spectacularly

Also: if you think a screenshot of an opinion from a micro log site isn't a meme GTFO microblogmemes ffs