In 2026 people can’t read 4 lines of text unless there’s a nice distracting border around it to give their drifting attention spans something to ingest as a break partway through.
I’m sure this is a pithy joke (and carry on if so) but for anyone who wants the real answer…its an old algorithm thing.
Way back when, Facebook didnt like the influx of tumblr/reddit screenshots (aka The Federation Mom Says We Have At Home), nor did they like the spreading of information via digital flyers.
They suppressed images that were over a certain percentage text, and one way to get around it was to present the text as part of another image. Designers could get around this with art and such, but scrapers and many screenshotters kinda just use whatever.
Edit: in this case, it seems the creator went with the strategy of “smiling young white woman in car” which most algos smile favorably upon as opposed to say, a photo of the people the tweet is actually about.
Why do we even need the background photo at all?
In 2026 people can’t read 4 lines of text unless there’s a nice distracting border around it to give their drifting attention spans something to ingest as a break partway through.
I’m sure this is a pithy joke (and carry on if so) but for anyone who wants the real answer…its an old algorithm thing.
Way back when, Facebook didnt like the influx of tumblr/reddit screenshots (aka The Federation Mom Says We Have At Home), nor did they like the spreading of information via digital flyers.
They suppressed images that were over a certain percentage text, and one way to get around it was to present the text as part of another image. Designers could get around this with art and such, but scrapers and many screenshotters kinda just use whatever.
Edit: in this case, it seems the creator went with the strategy of “smiling young white woman in car” which most algos smile favorably upon as opposed to say, a photo of the people the tweet is actually about.