cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/questions/p/1210820/why-the-fuck-do-people-post-photos-of-text-instead-of-just-text
I find this very weird.
On one hand you got text, which is very accessible and very efficient and easy to translate for non-native speakers.
On the other, you got photos of text which is inefficient, hard to translate and not easy to read compared to just text.
So what gives? Why do people use photos of text instead of text?
I’d guess it’s because people are either lazy and not wanting to type the text out, or people don’t like / know about modern tools to extract the text for posting.
Also, meme culture doesn’t have the same ring to it when the text is extracted from the picture.