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] 2 points 3 weeks ago

The only place I've ever seen this be true personally is sports fans. Sports fans love to talk about how they love athletes and how they're good guys. You see it constantly. Usually it's based upon PR stunts. Like there was a big one with current Browns quarterback to Deshaun Watson. Back when he was with the Houston Texans there was this big PR thing where he gave his paycheck to a lunch lady or something. There was a Reddit Thread about how awesome he was and what a good guy he was. Few years later there are like 40 women who are accusing him of rape and or sexual assault.

Sports fans get very invested in their teams Heroes and they think they know them. It's a danger we all face I'm guilty of it sometimes too I'm sure, but it's just real important to know that we don't know these people. It's true of all celebrities.