But I will say this, a movement can’t get along without a devil, and across the whole political spectrum there is a misogynistic tendency to choose a female devil, whether it’s Anita Bryant, Hillary Clinton, Marie Antoinette, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or J.K. Rowling [or Taylor Swift]. And there’s always gonna be people who seize on any opportunity to be misogynistic. So I would advise trans people and our allies [or environmentalists] to keep in mind, that J.K. Rowling [Taylor Swift] is not the final boss of transphobia [anti-environmentalism]. She’s not our devil. The devil is the Republican Party, the Conservative Party.
—Natalie Wynn (emphasis and bracket text mine)
Well … this meme format … such was the style at the time, but we didn’t post pics on the internet back then. Why use millions of times more data bandwidth than is necessary (pic vs ascii)?
this is such a great question, and one I am interested in myself.
you have to consider engagement and reach. let’s look at the numbers:
so your estimate of “millions of times” is already not quite accurate. its just a little more than 1000x.
from experience on the internet, i know that people are more likely to read something if it looks pretty. advertisers and marketers are aware of this too.
so am i getting 1000x more reach than if i just did a text post? well, without empirical evidence, my guess is actually probably, or at least in that ballpark. especially considering the context that this is c/196 and no one really wants to read text posts on here :)
Oh, thx for the numbers.
And I do apologize for the poetic ‘million’, it was, as everything else in that reply, a joke (I’m saying that I was in fact not wondering why we post pics, nor think we should text format all the things - I mean, we have video blogs, that’s just ascii with unnecessary human bits :D (again, joking)). I mean, I look at memes hours per day & shitpost them around, I understand sharing images.
The main point/reference/nostalgia I was trying to make was putting together classic windows theme (starting in dial-up era) and how impractical would have been to use images back then.
(Also, not that it matters in the million, I was thinking uncompressed png vs ascii.)