dizzyhslightlyvoided:

darker-than-darkstorm:

exeggcute:

a screenshot of black text on a white background that says:

[bold text] But will people really suspend all disbelief if a picture looks like it could conceivably be a screenshot of a credible news outlet? Even if it's just black text on a white background, no other identifying features?

[normal text] Sure. And you can say pretty much whatever you want. Shit. Piss. Fuck. If you format it nice enough, anything'll look like the work of a Rutgers-trained journalist and not some internet rando with a bad sense of humor.

[bold text] That must require some impressive image manipulation skills, though.

[normal text] Not really.ALT
#honestly you can probably do the same thing with tumblr tags
#cheap way to make it look like
#"this isn't my own idea I'm just agreeing with it"
#"I'm diffusing my own culpability by putting these words into the mouth of someone hypothetical in the notes, making this opinion seem more common than it actually is"
#"Nobody's gonna trawl through the notes to see if it's real anyway"
#all you need is a little bit of knowledge about fonts and colors
#or how to play with Firefox's "inspect HTML" function or whatever
#Hey, since people don't pay attention as much as they should, I bet you could get away with things that are impossible in real Tumblr tags
#Such as commas, and "double-quotes", and tags which are longer than what Tumblr actually allows you to doALT