We had a very efficient and funny campaign to inform the general public that screenshots are not memes. However, people keep posting screenshots in this community. I propose that we establish a rule banning screenshots. Maybe there is a dedicated community or screenshots enthusiasts could create one. Of course if this proposal is widely opposed, I will withdraw it and go hide in a cave, never to be heard again. Also, cartoons are not memes either but this is a battle for another day.

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25 points

I just downvote any uncropped screenshot and ignore the content at this point. Have people really gotten too stupid to crop?

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14 points

We are in the social media age… yes, people really gotten too stupid for those kinds of things. Same with taking photos of screens instead of making a screenshot.

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6 points

I can at least understand taking photos of the screen because console manufacturers go out of their way to make it difficult to take a screenshot and get it on your phone.

But cropping literally takes 10 seconds. Or 5 minutes if you’re doing it for the first time and don’t have an app that can crop.

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5 points

You dont need an app. Both Apple’s iPhones and Samsung’s Galaxy Phones have built in photo editor. Not sure about other brands.

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0 points

It’s kinda hard on mobile

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5 points

Why would I know how to crop if I’m not a farmer?

/s

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6 points

If you share a cropped meme, are you a sharecropper?

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1 point

I do not think people became stupid, but it so easy to post stuff that even the technologically iliterate can now post. Also many people underestimate the amount of people acessing media on their phone. Maybe i am too old to know all options, but i feel like a phone is not the right tool to produce any quality content.

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1 point

Definitely takes time and effort

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1 point

I’d say lazy more than stupid

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