the best horses are dead horses
see, you read that as a joke, but if i write it like this:
suddenly it seems sincere.
in other words, grammatically, screenshotting is
Ok but consider:
Now it’s a joke again.
hmm. what about
well, one must also consider,
ooo good one! different implications. you can push them a bit further with, like,
hhhmmmmmmm,,
see, that one’s interesting, because it technically implies that this is a quote of another quote, right? there’s an implication added from its previous recontextualization. like, contrast that with this:
which could be seen as more ambiguous
I see no reason to limit ourselves to new media. Anything stated on a plaque implies the statement has met or exceeded the minimum level of importance required to warrant a plaque. If the plaque is on the side of a building or bridge, it implies the statement achieves at least the level of importance required for it to be on a plaque on the side of a building or bridge.
see, like, this is edging into meme captions at this point. like the next thing in this sequence would probably be
and then you end up with text pasted over pictures everyone recognizes, and then after that it’s all political cartoons.
my interest was more the incidental associations added through the theoreticaly neutral act of screenshotting stuff from a given (or even the same) media platform
also repeating this phrase, but the reason for that should be obvious
although arguably…
i’d guess part of the reason the tumblr example feels different to the other examples is that it raises the question of, “why didn’t you just reblog?” which we understand is usually it’s because it’s being held up for mockery and you don’t want that going back to the OP - screenshotting is an act of excluding them from the conversation.
conversely, posting images from other social media sites usually (not always) feels like it could be a recommendation - depending on the ‘status’ of the site. twitter is p neutral, so there’s kind of two possibilities: either it’s someone you’re unlikely to have heard of, in which case you’re probably praising their tweet (usually to say it’s a good joke), or it’s a famous person saying something in which case it reflects on their character somehow.
(also this is ‘as we’d receive it on tumblr’, but tangentially i’ve seen a weird thing in that regard where a twitter user posted a screenshot of a tweet that they’d copied from a tumblr post lol)
reddit, it kinda depends in the same way, though i think reddit users are collectively generally held in less regard so it’s probably a case of ‘look at what this idiot on reddit said’.
pornhub (I think that’s what the orange one is?) is held in even less regard, so much so that ‘look at what this idiot on pornhub said’ is rarely worth pointing out, so it kind of wraps back round to the point of ‘if it’s worth screenshotting, it’s probably actually good’.
i don’t actually know what that blue one is. i thought maybe metafilter or something, but it didn’t look like that when i checked.
bash.org is a joke repository so that’s definitely gonna be presented as ‘check out this good joke’.
fb messenger is necessarily more or less anonymous - so the person sending the message might stand in as a ‘stock character’, such as ‘my mum’.
blurry photo is something else entirely. not sure what that conveys…………
thank you, internet linguistics side of tumblr
