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<p>Content pass: encyclopedic seed/expansion</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;Screenshot culture&#039;&#039;&#039; describes everyday habits of capturing on-screen content as images and circulating those images as proof, jokes, or personal archives. Screenshots often outlast the live posts they depict, functioning as folk [[Web archiving]]—with weaker provenance than institutional crawls.<br /> <br /> ==Relation to forever themes==<br /> Viral screenshots feed the sense that the [[Internet never forgets]], even when original URLs rot. They are fragile too: compressed reposts lose metadata, and faked screenshots complicate evidentiary use.<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> * [[Internet never forgets]]<br /> * [[Primary source]]<br /> * [[Ephemera]]<br /> <br /> ==Sources==<br /> * Media-studies discussions of screenshots as vernacular evidence.<br /> * Journalism guides on verifying screenshot claims.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Internet culture]]<br /> [[Category:Cultural memory]]</div>

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