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I’m So Old, I Remember When Going on the Internet Made You Smarter
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this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2025
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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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The Internet never gave you this ability. It allowed you to silo yourself off from other media and exist in an echo chamber.
In certain instances of media panic (post-9/11 Muslim hysteria, immigration hysteria, fad diet hysteria) you can maintain your sense of sanity by conversing with people who aren't also drowning in manufactured consent.
But you could still find plenty of crap in these communities. Whether it was liberalist blindness to an increasingly reactionary public opinion or more niche hysterias rearing up in place of mainstream hysterics (TikTok people panicking over micro plastics while the news was wiping the general public up over transgender athletes), you still had plenty of crap and no real filter for it.
The modern Internet isn't different in function nearly so much as it is in content. The floodgates opened and all the Late Night Crime Blotter / FOX News Two Minute Hate / Dumb Sports Guy Opinion came crashing through.