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It’s times like this where I’m sad that our upvotes and comments don’t federate back to the original post. So the original poster sees them.
So much stuff is copied and pasted around these days. Once everyone learned how to take and manage screenshots on their phones, everything changed. Social networks became places where you look at screenshots of the other social networks.
Am I the only one who noticed the shift in culture that happened when a large number of people learned how to take screenshots? Maybe it’s just the shift to a screen oriented society I’m noticing.
Just some random thoughts about how we use social media. I’m not on a crusade to change anything.
The Internet has always been cross pollinating like this. People share content across various communities and screenshots are more permanent and easy than live links that might break, get deleted or require an account to view.
I don't think it's something that can be solved. Stuff gets copied and compressed and reposted and screenshot again and experiences digital rot.
Rss feeds, and promoted content had it basically solved. Social media offered an easier solution, but then they multiplied and people forgot the old ways.
It use to be the source image was shared, and those would get deep fried. It’s like we zoomed out a level and now it’s the original UI and attribution, and screens have relatively similar resolutions. Can we zoom out one more level?
I think it's more people discovering linkrot, and social media platforms downranking links more than simple knowledge of screenshots. Deep fried memes have been a thing for literally forever, remember demotavational posters that always ended up nested to hell:
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.
It's been like this for decades
When everything is screenshots of other sites, you pick the sites that aren't corporate so they aren't trying to steal your data and violate your privacy.