Feedback request for a meme post with image description and explanation; CW: long (over 2,500 characters), Fediverse meta, alt-text meta, image description meta
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So I have
this new meme post.
I've tried a new format: Explanation of all I thought needs to be explained to a casual audience. Explanations are in the post. According to
this poll, people prefer explanations in the same post as the image over external explanations linked into the post.
This led to almost 25,000 characters of explanation, however, because I had to explain
- the image itself
- the "One Does Not Simply Walk Into Mordor" meme (in order for people to understand the image explanation)
- snowclones (in oder for people to understand the "One Does Not Simply Walk Into Mordor" meme explanation)
- image macros (in oder for people to understand the "One Does Not Simply Walk Into Mordor" meme explanation)
- advice animals (in oder for people to understand the "One Does Not Simply Walk Into Mordor" meme explanation)
- Something Awful (in order for people to understand the snowclones and image macros explanations)
- 4chan and imageboards (in order for people to understand the image macros and advice animals explanations)
- FEP-ef61 and nomadic identity (in order for people to understand the image explanation)
- Hubzilla, the streams repository and the Zot and Nomad protocols (in order for people to understand the FEP-ef61 and nomadic identity explanation)
Yes, nine explanations. And almost 25,000 characters. Yes, that's a lot. But yes, that's what people have voted for, so that's apparently what they prefer over linked external content.
In fact, it could be even more, but I've decided that
The Lord of the Rings is common enough knowledge for me not to have to explain that and its characters as well. I'm not sure if an explanation of the ActivityPub standard and how FEPs work would have been necessary.
I've only described the image itself in the alt-text this time. The image is not so exotic that I need to describe every last detail. Still, the image description might be lacking because I haven't described what Boromir looks like (age, skin tone, hair colour, hair length, hairstyle, clothes). I thought it wouldn't matter within the context of a meme.
I could really need some feedback before I assemble the next meme post. Maybe some of you can boost/repost/renote/repeat/"retoot" this to increase my reach.#
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