Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

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angrily shakes walking stick (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by General_Effort@lemmy.world to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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Yesterday I heard a kid use "trending" to mean popular. This was at a carnival, referring to a ride "trending" in the sense of having a long line. Feel like this is the modern version of LOL and OMG escaping into conversation.

by Zach Weinersmith at https://bsky.app/profile/zachweinersmith.bsky.social/post/3lsr2cs55jc2h

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[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i don't mind this one, because it at least makes some degree of sense. The etymology is understandable without needing to reference urban dictionary, and it doesn't utterly contradict the previous definition.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah like "dank" or "sick" or "ill" did.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

You're ill but I'm iller