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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.

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  2. Be nice.
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  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

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[–] Sc00ter@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm pretty active in some gaming communities and my clans regularly share 10 minute videos. I get so frustrated. Half the time I can say, "does this video just say x, y, and z?" Most of them can be summarized in 1 or 2 sentences

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I can acknowledge that some videos have value. A game review showing gameplay? A football film breakdown? Showing me tips and tricks to throwing the perfect vase on a pottery wheel? Please, feel free to use video.

Someone rambling to a camera? No.

But so many people will happily watch the 15 minute video and will somehow not have the attention span to read three paragraphs that say the same thing. (And they'll watch 8 hours of YouTube videos babbling incoherently, but an 8 hour audiobook that actually makes sense? "Too hard.")

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 12 points 1 month ago

Half of US adults can't read at a 6th grade level. So.