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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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. 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.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
  7. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I can say as someone who's seen similar things in different groups it's body dysmorphia. You focus on a flaw you want to fix enough to pay to get it fixed and it's better, but if you don't have discipline about it you're prone to still see it. It's similar to anorexia where they go from seeing fat that may or may not be there to seeing the torso bulge of having organs and thinking that it's fat.

Then there's social factors. If your social group has worries, well humans tend to echolocate reality off what those around us think and say, so you're prone to the same worries and the same solutions.