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:

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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submitted 5 months ago by ReadyUser31@lemmy.world to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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Brent @SkyCladBrent:

Imagine there being a website so popular that game console manufacturers put a dedicated button on their controllers to take and post screenshots and then you fuck the website up so much that they disable it

) Nintendo of America @NintendoAmerica · May 9:

As of June 10, 2024, it will no longer be possible to post screenshots and videos to X (formerly Twitter) from the Nintendo Switch's Album, or send friend requests to social media users via the Friend Suggestions feature. Find out more: ninten.do/6010YVr2a

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I particularly enjoy that they repeat it 5 times in their blog post, because they really did not feel like readers would know which "X" they're referring to.

[–] 520@kbin.social 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Because Twitter as a brand had a godly status in terms of name recognition.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean, yeah, but also "X" has no name recognition at all. As in, you don't even recognize that it is a name.

If the guy would have called it "Musk's Nazi Paradise", then you would have only had to explain once in the text, that it used to be called "Twitter".
"X", on the other hand, could be the figure of speech for an undetermined quantity or just a typo.

[–] 520@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago

I mean, yeah, but also “X” has no name recognition at all. As in, you don’t even recognize that it is a name.

And the truly sad part is, after all this time, this is still true.