22 points

She should use the subscription model to get money for them every month.

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Renting children? What a horrible idea- Oh wait, no. The Simpsons already did that

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Problem here is this isn’t a meme. What’s to comment but, ‘why did you post this?’

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an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread by internet users, often with slight variations.

Idk bud it matches the meaning of modern memes decently enough

Stupid easy to adapt the sign into a meme format if you wanted to

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Stupid easy to adapt the sign into a meme format if you wanted to

I actually tracked the original photo down, and this picture was changed. The original text wasn’t “4 children for sale” it was actually “Hey lemmy users , lemmytors or whatever, lemmy is desperately in need for commenters. Can’t expect to compete against reddit comments. They have thousands of users and and a few of their comments are bound to become super popular just because there are so many of them. It feels like lemmy users are too shy because of reddit popularity. For instance in this case don’t tell me you didn’t wonder whether the photo was real or not and then got afraid to just ask.”

So this is a meme

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4 points

It’s not fucking funny is the main problem.

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7 points

wat.jpg

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It feels like lemmy users are too shy because of reddit popularity.

I see you’ve never heard of the 90%/9%/1% of social media users.

90% are lurkers. 9% are intermittent posters. 1% are heavy use posters.

It’s not that people are shy, it’s that literally with a fraction of the userbase Reddit has, that 10% that actually makes posts is just a smaller number of people.

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14 points

Just comment friend, be the change you want to see.

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It appears to be legit.

The photo first appeared in The Vidette-Messenger of Valparaiso, Indiana on August 5, 1948. The children looked posed and a bit confused as their pregnant mother hides her face from the photographer.
The caption read: “A big ‘For Sale’ sign in a Chicago yard mutely tells the tragic story of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Chalifoux, who face eviction from their apartment. With no place to turn, the jobless coal truck driver and his wife decide to sell their four children.
Mrs. Lucille Chalifoux turns her head from the camera above while her children stare wonderingly. On the top step are Lana, 6, and Rae, 5. Below are Milton, 4, and Sue Ellen, 2”.
Family members accused the mother of being paid to stage the photo, which may have been part of the story, but unfortunately, she was dead serious about selling her children. Within two years all of the children pictured, as well as the baby she was carrying at the time, were sold off to different homes.

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This photo has also circulated on Reddit and elsewhere for years so most of us have probably already seen it and were aware of the true and dark history surrounding it.

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I don’t care if you are god don’t tell me what to do

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36 points

This is real right?

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Yeah, old photo from (I think) the great depression.

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Ooof

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12 points

Oof. I don’t like my memes this dark.

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2 points

That is extremely tragic

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Yes. Here’s a link to the Wikimedia page of the photograph.

The picture was taken August 5, 1948, for The Vidette-Messenger.

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12 points

More garbage for the dumpster fire. But those upvotes are just so important…

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6 points

There are some days that I would pay someone to take my 4 kids.

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4 kids?!? I have a cat and sometimes that’s too much. I’m impressed.

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I think that’s actually a pretty common practise. Rich people barely have to see their kids at all!

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