this post was submitted on 09 May 2024
870 points (97.9% liked)

Microblog Memes

5821 readers
1734 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. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 104 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Same in the UK if you take sunak and Boris, and India with modi and gandhi :)

[–] garfaagel 77 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Idk who this Cervantes guy is, but I suspect Misters Hanna and Barbera would like a word with him:

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Final Boss of Soul Blade

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The originator of the format

Everyone should have a Sancho because we're all tilting at windmills.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 70 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Do I look cool naow?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Oh god this show was REAL!? I watched it once when I was really sick and thought it was a fever dream.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Bananas in pyjamas are coming down the stairs!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They cannot be bargained with. They cannot be reasoned with.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

They can't feel pity, or remorse, or fear.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Do you remember the show about the clown girl and the big red(?) couch?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The big comfy couch? There's a cat called snicklefrits

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Weird looking dick and balls. Why is there no hair growing out of the knob?

[–] brown567 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)
load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Man, they look so... human. You don't see that in film anymore.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago

yeah it's a holdover from the early days of movies and vaudeville... think Abbot & Costello, Laurel & Hardy, Spanky and Alfalfa, the list goes on and on...

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago
[–] jballs 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That one didn't work out so well.

[–] jballs 4 points 6 months ago

Yeah one of them was a bit murdery.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I realize this is a joke but there's something real here about contrast making your characters more memorable or something

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Silhouettes are important in character design after all

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

the show is "katjakaj och bentebent"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Troy and Abed in the fruiiiitboooowl

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The sidekick trope has been a prime mover since vaudeville, maybe before

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The word “prime mover” being used outside of the train community brings a smile to my face :3

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Sheldon and Leonard in Big Bang Theory.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Just jumping in to say that c/lemmytellyousomething should definitely be the name of an advice / self-help community on here

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

This may be the only true fact on the internet

[–] brown567 8 points 6 months ago

Larry and Bob in Veggie Tales

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

A Bit of Fry and Laurie

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_act

Because someone has to be pedantic here!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

when kids think they were the first to discover something

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Key and peele

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I'm definitely an orange.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Drake and Josh

load more comments
view more: next ›