Convention. "Back in my day," memes were made mostly in MS Paint or MS Word. With MS Word, impact was the default font for an out-of-box variety of Word Art. Since it worked well for the task and was easily accessible, it became a common choice, then a ubiquitous component of the "meme" format.
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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.
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I feel a little self conscious what font to use for modern memes, impact is easy in so many ways
It's so the joke hits.
Battery, all day these days baby!
The improvement in battery tech became a game changer for impact tools about 15 years ago. Crazy.
Would you prefer Comic Sans?
* yes.
* it would make them more...
* humerus.
Well, the people have spoken. Get on it Lemmy!
To be honest, I've never understood the hatred for Comic Sans. It's not especially 'professional', but not everything has to be.
Yes
Some men just want to watch the world burn.
It's more impactful
I've been trying to sneak in other fonts to any oc I make. I'm definitely tired of the binary ALL CAPS or twitter screenshot
because it's the default Imgflip font?