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The opening line from the Wikipedia article on the term image macro: "In Internet culture, an image macro is an image superimposed with text for humorous effect."

It is interesting how the term, which originally applied to a function in some forums-software whereby phrases would be replaced with an image. To this day, many chat clients do this with emoticons and some phrases: e.g., in the chat client I use for work, HipChat, "(shrug)" gets replaced by a little ASCII-art picture of a person shrugging.

Many posts on Facebook and other social media are in the form of the newer, extended use of image macro, e.g., LOL cats, etc.


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There are some sites where, if you wish, you can choose an image and then type a witty saying, which appears on the image. You can then download or share the image on Facebook, Reddit, etc.


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Wow, I have never seen any of those. I'd love to see some of the images.
 
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Look at your Facebook timeline. You won't be able to avoid them!


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TV Tropes, of course, has an article.

Dont forget, though, TV Tropes will ruin your life.


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Well, I checked my Facebook timeline and found nothing. Nice links, though!
 
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Here's a site for making image macros of the famous British poster Keep Calm.


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Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
 
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I love it!

There is just so much to learn...
 
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