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Re:Show HN: GIF meme generator to add text to GIFs by zichy on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @11:08AM (#15542122)
In what way is writing text on GIFs a meme? It's not even on the GIF, it's above. If you want to caption an (animated) image for social media, please just use normal text comments. They are way more accessible.
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Re:Show HN: GIF meme generator to add text to GIFs by pheldagryph on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @11:16AM (#15542181)
Well, putting the text in the image file itself makes the text+image combo easily portable between services. It lowers the barrier for others to share the content, with their own techno-tribes.

I guess this why the 'meme' form is so prevalent, today.

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