{"id":44367,"date":"2017-01-18T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T02:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44367"},"modified":"2020-07-29T22:34:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T02:34:28","slug":"irony-is-taking-pictures-of-text-and-posting-it-to-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44367","title":{"rendered":"Irony is taking pictures of text and posting it to social media"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So I\u2019m reading this article<\/a> about Steve Harvey, his likely money-driven, crocodile-tear laden apology to Asian people, and how he\u2019s basically being treated like an Uncle Tom piece of shit for being a racist and a Trump supporter,* and sure, it doesn\u2019t necessarily help my opinion of him, but there\u2019s one thing I can\u2019t really get over: Harvey\u2019s liberal use of writing his messages in a text file, screen capping them, and then posting images of his written messages onto Twitter, a messaging service.<\/span><\/p>\n

*it\u2019s amusing that being deemed a Trump supporter is considered an insult to the left<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Now Steve Harvey is hardly the first person to do this, but because of my general recent disgust with him, along with the fact that he\u2019s the most recent example of a person that does this makes him the poster boy for such ironic and narcissistic behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n

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So the current state of social media has evolved to where words have become the enemy, where people don\u2019t want to read anything, and just want to look at shiny, blingy, animated sparkles MySpace-like images all day, without actually having to look at them on MySpace.\u00a0 Tumblr gif sites have risen while actual written blogs on WordPress or Blogger have become the minority, leading to the increasing use of the term longform<\/em> to explain that it\u2019s actually a form<\/em> of writing that actually utilizes, writing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Facebook has this weird priority system to where if your post is more than like a sentence, the font size plunges from obnoxious to legible, but then automatically proceeds to utilize a cut system to where only a fragment of your post will be readable without the necessity of another click or a press, to magically reveal the rest of your post.<\/span><\/p>\n

And then we have Twitter, the world\u2019s favorite social outlet, where words are not only the enemy, but are parsed down to where the words themselves are counted down by character, and if you can\u2019t convey your message within 140 characters, you are automatically long-winded and an e-blabbermouth, and your opinion does not matter.\u00a0 Emojis have risen to expedite the current world of context-driven communication, when a few extra words would pinpoint and exact actual intent and definition.<\/span><\/p>\n

So it\u2019s especially ironic when people; celebrities or ordinary alike, feel the need to convey a really important message, that can\u2019t be captured in an emoji, or 140 characters, or a gif from a popular television movie or an independent darling movie, are forced<\/em> to resort to, words<\/strong> in order to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n

But naturally, because we live in a world full of self-centered narcissists, people are completely incapable of doing, words, correctly, because they have the fear of god that nobody will see theirs<\/em>.\u00a0 Which brings us to the obnoxious and ironic practice of composing words and presenting them as an image<\/strong> so that people can see a picture of words and hopefully might actually read them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Look at Steve Harvey\u2019s bullshit apologies and explanations; they were clearly written on an iPad, in standard Notes, based on the faux-paper background and the standard San Francisco typeface.\u00a0 As for his fake apologies to Asians, he writes two sentences of hollow words, signs it \u2013SH(it), presses power-home to screen cap it, and slaps it up onto Twitter, complete with a mile of negative space uncropped, so we can see just how fast he whipped it up in the most minimal effort possible.<\/span><\/p>\n

But then we get to his long-winded explanation with Mein Fuhrer, and this itself is an amusing display of care and curation of a statement; because he\u2019s limited by image size, he\u2019s very much held to a defined word limit, lest he writes to a point which necessitates a scroll, which then becomes defeated in the purpose to post a screen cap of his words onto Twitter.\u00a0 So despite the fact that he writes like a sixth grader, -SH(it) is careful to try and get as full of an explanation for his meeting with Trump without exceeding the boundaries of one full screen of Notes, so that it will all fit onto a singular Twitter post, even if comes at the expense of punctuation, grammar, or even a real point.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s be real here though; -SH(it) probably didn\u2019t actually write either. He makes enough money to where he doesn\u2019t have to, and probably didn\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n

Still ironic though, that on a platform that allows for just 140 characters, people have resorted to taking pictures of statements that blow past 140 characters in order to get around the 140-character limit.<\/span><\/p>\n

But that\u2019s just Steve Harvey, and people like \u2013SH(it), who use screen caps of words<\/em> instead of words to convey their messages.\u00a0 Another obnoxiously ironic trend I\u2019ve noticed recently, are people who not only post pictures of mundane words, but pictures of mundane words on top of obnoxious colorful gradients.\u00a0 Obviously done because they stand out like sore thumbs, but it\u2019s like I\u2019m scrolling through theFacebook, and seeing the usual litany of people who blurb, people who blab, people who repost, people who promote, etc. etc.; and then suddenly, there\u2019s this big obnoxious colorful \u201cimage,\u201d but then the words on top of it are something completely mundane and stupid like \u201cLa La Land<\/em> was awesome!!!!!!\u201d or \u201cI\u2019m going home, had a great time!!!\u201d and then I\u2019m all like what the fuck is the point of this?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I actually think text on rainbow pictures are worse, because it\u2019s like taking the mindlessness of Twitter, and injecting a unicorn\u2019s rainbow jizz and presenting words on top of that.\u00a0 It\u2019s obviously done because it stands out in a field of \u201cordinary\u201d text, but it\u2019s passively saying \u201cLOOK AT MY SHIT PLS\u201d and \u201cMY WORDS ARE IMPORTANT PLS LOOK AT THEM.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The bottom line is, the social media world has discovered yet more ways to be obnoxious, narcissistic, and more disrespectful to the written word.\u00a0 Next thing you know, people will be taking selfies with their screen capped words, and posting those, when they have something they want to say, and 140 emoji characters isn\u2019t obnoxious enough.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I\u2019m reading this article about Steve Harvey, his likely money-driven, crocodile-tear laden apology to Asian people, and how he\u2019s basically being treated like an Uncle Tom piece of shit for being a racist and a Trump supporter,* and sure, it doesn\u2019t necessarily help my opinion of him, but there\u2019s one thing I can\u2019t really … Continue reading Irony is taking pictures of text and posting it to social media<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[91,105,156,146,49],"class_list":["post-44367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-pf","tag-rage","tag-social-media","tag-triggered","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44369,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44367\/revisions\/44369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}