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This is reminiscent of another story about images: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/there-is-only-one-cloud-icon-in-the-entire-universe https://www.hanselman.com
by bambax 5y ago
This is reminiscent of another story about images:
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/there-is-only-one-cloud-icon-in-the-entire-universe https://www.hanselman.com/blog/there-is-only-one-cloud-icon-...
If an image works then people will copy it at nauseam.
- Gravityloss 5y agoI wonder why people are obsessed with image copying. It has lead to the invention of writing for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyphs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyphs Maybe it provided some evolutionary advantage already at a really primitive form. For example maybe people were drawing hunting plans on sand?
- shever73 5y agoA similar thing happened to one of my photos from Flickr. It was of a riverbed dried up in the Kenyan drought. Someone messaged me to ask permission to use it in a project and since then, it has appeared in news articles everywhere - mostly without attribution - and with the location varying from a selection of African countries to California and lots of places in between.