Also this.
Well, yes. But that’s not a meme or a shitpost.
Is that how you make an Elon ?
Yes, but why in shitpost?
This is anything but a shitpost
All racism is real racism, this is a shit post because it’s gate keeping “real racism” .
I will never understand how people can treat others as if they were less human than them.
Agreed, but why did you post it in this community?
Well, mostly agree, people can remove themselves from being treated as equals by their actions and views. I’m not gonna treat a Nazi, Pedo, LGBTQ-hating religious notjob etc. with respect. The default for all beings, not just humans, is to be treated as equals, but it’s up to them if that continues or not. 99% of the time it does, even with differing opinions, but if you live by hate or corruption of others you prove you don’t see everyone as humans so you’ll be answered in kind.
I fully agree, but I think this is the wrong community. There is a subtle not-so-great meaning to posting this as a shitpost which you might have missed.
Why is this black and white? In '89?
The medium is the message
Yeah because frankly I was kind of feeling like this might’ve been one of those “make it black and white to make it look older than it actually is” type scenarios…
B/W film was still cheaper through the 80s and so color photography was very much optional.
I wasn’t thinking that, the tv and the the outfits of the people in the chair sort of date it anyway. I was quoting McLuhan
We have a family album with a bunch of photos from my brother’s toddlerhood in ~'83, mostly black and white. Those cameras were still around for a while (not in South Africa, though). Maybe family heirloom, maybe it was just cheaper, or some hobby stuff.
Black & White film was usually cheaper to buy and to process, it’s also easier to process yourself at home so was still quite common even into the late 90s.
In my family color photos were a rarity until my dad got a digital camera because it was easier for him to process the b&w film in a home darkroom.
Apartheid?
I didn’t think it was too uncommon. B/W images where often “crisper” and also seemed more artsy. I also remember quite a few B/W TV sets around in the late 80s.
Well, IDK. My family photos from the 80s are in colour (admittedly rather poor colour, but still), and a little looking up seems to suggest it fell out of fashion by that time. Maybe it was an aesthetic choice, yeah.
About half of my family photos were taken in black and white film throughout the 90’s. I think the film was marketed as having a “classic touch” or something to keep people buying it.
I see, I see; Maybe that’s it!
Newspaper maybe?
