• paraphrand
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    3 days ago

    That’s someone actively editing the content. Not just hauling it from one spot to another.

    And yes, saving and reuploading jpegs has been a thing for ages, and this did indeed deep fry the images. I’m specifically just musing about screenshots, and how they became the next step after saving a jpeg and reuploading. And how they are different from opening something in GIMP and nesting it.

    Memes use to be just the image with text on it. Edited, created. (Bottom text) Now it’s often the image under the text in a tweet and the composition is captured with a screenshot.

    And we have this whole culture of screenshotting text instead of copying and quoting the text.

    This all really did evolve in the social media time post Twitter.