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by ______-
1867 days ago
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> You’re obscuring the subject of the image and changing the feel of the picture For those who have turned meme-creating into a sport, watermarks and other attributable data are vital in seeing how that meme spreads. I know people that deliberately put a yellow 1px border beneath each image they share (and created) so that if they spot it somewhere else, both they and others can guess where it originated. There are other more sophisticated methods which I can't mention here for detecting meme spread, but watermarks are a big deal in the meme world. |
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I found that very funny in a austin power kind of way, like this is some sort of giant secret technology.
The most efficient methods of watermarking pictures in ways that are easy to detect, easy to hide for the viewer yet hard to remove for the copier are all well known and detailed on the internet, in fact wikipedia is a decent source before going into more technical content.
And in terms of "memes", this sort of watermark is most often done by individual users for reasons related to ego rather that copyright protection. Because the actual money making memes oriented websites will prefer the good old heavy duty watermark all over the picture, since it will be copied anyway they figure they might as well ensure the final viewer knows where it came from so he can look for it and get them new traffic.