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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.

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Why is this happening to me?! (startrek.website)
submitted 10 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Okay, S and Q I kinda get, but what the heck happened with R?

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

These came from a sort of “this sounds like” alphabet. Like if you wanted to write D but drew a picture of a dog, because that starts with a D sound. Or when someone on the phone says “A as in Adam.”

So the word for dude with a tiny hat started with an R sound, just like the word for the A sounded like an A sound.