• asteriskeverything@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    What order of events was this conversation?? I never could get into tumblr/Twitter reply format I’m so confused. Who shot first

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      I’m just glad I’m not the only one who wants to read from top to bottom like a fucking normal person.

      I just want to roll the whole internet back by about 20 years.

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      The red numbers show it chronologically. Twitter has replies and quote retweets. This began with the purple quote retweet. To which Lake Superior responded. Then in green I think this is a quote retweet (or more likely a screenshot) of the exchange. (I don’t think you can quote multiple posts so I think it’s a screenshot.)

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      The timestamps should be a big clue. 3d, 1d, 9h, and the tweet at the top has no timestamp but from context it should be obvious that came last.

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        This is useful but to be candid I’m not looking at memes for intellectual stimulation so it’s more effort than I’d like.

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      it’s 3241 but you made me realized how chronically online i am for knowing this intuitively without needing to be told or think about it

      so, thanks 😅

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      The tweet at the top has the rest of them attached as a screenshot which does make it a bit confusing.

      Lake Superior’s tweet (the “innermost” one) came first. Tom quote-retweeted it. Lake superior replied to Tom’s tweet. Ron took a screenshot of the whole exchange and posted it as his own tweet.

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      Sometimes it goes backwards. Next they are going to post everything sideways and the dates will be encoded in a base 12 abacus representation of the Vietnamese calendar.