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Pro tip for everybody: do not post any text as images

Never should I receive a Java exception hundreds of lines long as a cut off JPEG file.

Or a screenshot of a Google Sheet missing the information you’re talking to me about.



We made this to be used as a reply when pictures are misused where text would be better:

https://fewer.pics/


I’m disappointed the rendered picture isn’t advanced CSS. I honestly expected that to be the case.


I hope someone accepts this challenge!


It should have been animated.


It should have been a .swf and required a plugin to be installed to see it.


Why ruin the message by writing half of it upside down?


Yep, as the sibling said, it’s to prove the point in a snarky manner. The yellow-on-white color, the wobbling, upside down path of text, the font choice, the unrelated image; all of these serve to make the concept actively hard to process.

Hopefully this sparks a little “wow I wonder if my image of text was also hard to read like I just experienced” moment.


It actually enhances the message by being harder to read.




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