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?
Instagram started as mainly an image sharing service. When people wanted to effectively tweet, they would create an image with text instead of an image. When Facebook started copying Instagram’s UI, they added in that feature to make text posts look bigger.