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’m with you. When I find one I want to forward to a friend, I transcribe it.
My theory is that since almost everyone is using phones for this stuff, slowness of typing makes grabbing a screenshot more attractive. I do most of my browsing on a laptop, so typing is far less trouble.