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:

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.
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.
You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
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.
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.
Absolutely no NSFL content.
Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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submitted 1 year ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] Penny7@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

From Merriam-Webster...

(Woops...hit meant to add)...saying exaggeration instead of hyperbole isn't wrong.

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[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Hyperbole is the rhetorical technique.

Exaggeration is just speaking like that.

From context it sounded like he was invoking the rhetorical meaning.

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[–] Penny7@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Some people just 'speak like that' using hyperbolic examples. So correcting them on using the word 'exaggeration' when they used a form of exaggeration is being the grammar police when nobody called for you. There's nothing wrong with using the word 'hyperbole', but there's nothing wrong with the word they used either.

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[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

So correcting them on using the word ‘exaggeration’ when they used a form of exaggeration is being the grammar police when nobody called for you

have you heard of stylistic devices? this one is called exaggeration hyperbole.

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