this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2025
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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] thirteene@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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?

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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:

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

It's been like this for decades

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

Black robin

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not a robin. Cool nest though.

[–] dx1@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Also it's not a drain pipe, it's a downspout

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 6 points 1 year ago

Dang! I better get a couple fry baskets before Spring!

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, for for Elaine Buckner, and what a clever idea!

Yeah, good Elaine

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 4 points 1 year ago

That's so awesome, i love it!

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

So close to chicken nugget I could just eat him up.