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Type-o-Negative ago

Playing devil’s advocate here, I think having a meme depot will not work. Reason being is once a meme is used, it will have a SHA or MD-5 hash attached to them. These hashes are very useful on determining whether a file has been altered even to the slightest degree such as a period added. In other words, it provides integrity that a file has not neen tampered with.

I picked this site as it explains in plain English to the common person who is exactly a Computer Science Major. I didnt add a SHA link because sha and md5 are flavors of the same concept

https://www.gohacking.com/what-is-md5-hash

Why is this a big deal someone might ask? Most likely these memes will be assigned a sha or md5 hash that will be on a already established shadow ban list on the social media servers.

I never reuse any memes and make mine on the fly in PowerPoint where I can use the same pic, but edit the text on the fly to make a new meme therefore changing the sha and/or md5 hashes. If one doesnt have PowerPoint, Paintbrush or whatever the default Apple paintbrush like application would be best to use.

Just my .02 cents on this.

Meme_Factory_1776 ago

Do a screen shot and crop or use an image capture app on PC. You get a new file name for the image with this method. Also you could just download and rename your file.

Type-o-Negative ago

Snippet is my friend. 👍

JL0331 ago

if you tweet on a mobile, sceenshot the meme and send from your photos. its a unique image.... right?

Type-o-Negative ago

Yes it would be unique but what are you going to do about the metadata? I am sure your phone model and maybe the serial number will be in that.

idkididkidk ago

Change any single byte and the hash is completely different. Edit 1 pixel, or edit a small piece of non-viewable image meta data is all it takes to get a completely new hash.

GoodGodKirk ago

Wouldn’t a meme generator be easier and alter the md5 hash once you’ve added text to it?

Thinking about that, the EU may have certain domains banned due to recent laws.

Type-o-Negative ago

I suppose that would work, but how would one know if the meme generator isnt owned by the same social media companies one is battling against? Paranoia aside, how often have we run into controlled opposition in the past?

GoodGodKirk ago

In meme generators being taken down or img hosting sites taken down?

73s ago

What if we don't link, but download and upload, will it still be marked? Sorry I'm rather a nerd on some things computer.

Type-o-Negative ago

Yes it would be the same, the file has be altered in some way.

SeeSomethingSaySome ago

Once saved as is, if you rename the file, will it be still marked ?

Light_Guard ago

Most of us are already shadowbanned anyway so it doesn't matter.

Type-o-Negative ago

There are free sites that you can use an SMS temp phone to get around the phone issue.

Light_Guard ago

I don't use a phone