The last one tho 💀 Like, the ship is already DECEASED at the bottom of the ocean, ya’ll did not need to cast Vicious Mockery on its corpse 😭 old timey gallows humor was ruthless but GOD it was funny

EDIT: Hey guys, I found the original thread, there’s even more roasts in there!

https://x.com/yesterdaysprint/status/1382501127111933954

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    Are these real? I cannot validate these quotes and never heard of this before. Image searches reveal only a single Tumblr source of the images. I don’t have access to really any paper databases this old though.

    EDIT: Seems legit!

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      Actually I was able to fact check this in a matter of literal seconds.

      edit: clearer example from a different article. Lots of sites have a paywall, but you can usually see enough to verify that everything lines up. The library of congress has a lot of old newspapers (for now), but I wasn’t able to find any of these there yet

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          Maybe I have trust issues but it’s satisfying knowing that I learned something new today that really happened. It broadens my perspective on what social media actually introduced.

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        I can’t get it to it because I don’t have a subscription to this site and there’s a paywall when visited with my iPhone, but thank you! Close enough. Wish I could pull the whole page. I’ll look into it later.

        You’re better than I am!

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          No problem. I didn’t mean to imply any criticism of either your fact checking or especially your initial skepticism, which I fully support. I am just delighted that it’s true.

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      The source is apparently a Twitter post that is now deleted because I assume the accounts of both of those people were deleted thanks to the enshittification of the site.