this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2026
320 points (94.7% liked)

Microblog Memes

11052 readers
2487 users here now

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 an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

RELATED COMMUNITIES:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Nikki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

a lot of vtubers make more than you and I combined I'd call that a job

[–] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

A lot in the sense that a lot of musicians make more than you. Which is to say, most of the ones you can name make a lot, but many more make nothing.

[–] Nikki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

and musicians still work to make money or at least do it as a side hussle, it doesn't mean it isn't a job like op was implying

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

If a job is only "making money", then what does a open source dev do?

[–] Nikki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

vtubers get paid for providing entertaient, same as actors and live casters. I don't understand your train of thought

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Added a "only" for clarification.

[–] Nikki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

doesn't clarify the point youre trying to make, if vtubers make a living entertaining people then its a job. just because you dont like watching doesn't make that any less true

this is coming from someone that doesn't actively go watch vtubers, if I like the person and what they're streaming and they happen to have an animated avatar I have no issues though

and yeah like music as stated below, its usually a side hussle because you need to be entertaining to make it in the entertainment industry. crazy how that works lol

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 54 minutes ago (1 children)

doesn't clarify the point youre trying to make, if vtubers make a living entertaining people then its a job.

I'm not saying it's not. I'm only against the notion, that a job must make money.

[–] Nikki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 25 minutes ago

oh I thought you were the top level comment that makes a lot more sense then, sorry!