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 think it must have started back when Twitter first came out and tweets could only have 140 characters, so posting an image of text allowed people to have longer amounts of text. Just a guess.
But since then, I don’t know. I hate it too! It’s so stupid.