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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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

We have one in Finnish "välineurheilija". "Väline" is "sports equipment" and "urheilija" is athlete, so it's literally just "equipmentathlete" and used derogatorily towarsd people who — instead of actually practicing — just show up in very expensive gear.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Has "couch expert"/"couch warrior" vibe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Correct

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If it was only easier to pronounce...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Wah-leh-neh (silent h's and the first a is like in can and ant)

Oor-hey-leh-yuh

Okey that might not have helped at all, tbh.