Image May Contain: Text
Meaning
Image may contain: text refers to the captions generated by AI on various images on malfunctioning websites, designed to describe their contents.
Following a mass outage of social media sites, related to Meta Platforms including Facebook and Instagram in July 2019, the captions became a popular meme online.
via MEME
- #1 Meme: Why Do They Call It Oven?
- #2 Meme: Daddy Chill
- #3 Meme: Donde Esta La Biblioteca
- #4 Meme: Sir This Is a Wendy’s
- #5 Meme: The Peepee Poopoo Man
Origin
“Image may contain: text” type captions were seen by countless users online on July 3rd, 2019, when the social media sites Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp were subjected to a malfunction.
The malfunction resulted in unloaded images, with various AI generated descriptions of their contents.
Spread and Usage
The same day, a plethora of users started making posts on Facebook as well as Twitter, mimicking the style of “Image may contain: text” creating a new trend, making fun of the situation.
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