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?
Platforms want you to know which platform and which user the text you’re copy-pasting comes from, so they make it much easier to screenshot the text than copy-paste it. Users encounter this often enough that they don’t even bother on platforms that behave better.