Comment on Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke.

• Kache@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s the practical distinction between “everyone can do it with some dedicated intent” (so very few actually bother) vs everyone can do it on a whim"

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  • westyvw@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Admittedly a computer in everyone’s hand is new. But corel paint, for example, was 12 years old in 2003. People were basically making memes and creating scenes that never existed on a whim and for the lulz back then.

    And were much, much, better then these stupid examples!

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