#if image ids arent up your alley or are super exhausting- get someone to help you write them!

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What are your tips on making textposts?

Anon i’m so sorry for the wait I have not been checking this blog

For EE and most shows, getting screenshots is a pretty simple matter of screenshotting it. (If you’re on a computer, there’s extensions to get screenshots off youtube) Games can be more tricky but youtube videos playing the game can make it easier. You can try googling for screenshots but that. Doesn’t always work. Character sprites also can work! Do not use fanart without the artist’s permission and proper credit.

Find your text post, screenshot, plop background-colored-squares or highlighting over anything you want to remove (usernames, follow buttons, etc)

Grab a software that lets you edit photos (I’ve used tons. I’ve used mspaint and google docs before. For my phone i use ibispaint or picsart for most of my meme making, and firealpaca for my computer), plop down the screenshot, then the text, save as one layer, and voila! Text post

Image IDs are incredibly important. Tumblr is not a functioning website so don’t trust the image id feature, it doesnt always save and has limited space. You can find tons of guides on writing descriptions with a quick search for “image id guide”. Some general rules I’ve picked up are don’t put it under a readmore unless it’s insanely long (as it is extra clicks for those who need to use screenreaders and if someone’s tumblr isnt gonna load the image, it might not load the page with the id, and if your blog deactivates the id will be lost), try to make reading the id take about the same amount of time as looking at the picture to grasp the joke, which means don’t go into absurdly long detail. Try to be faithful to the text in the meme, but understand the limits of screen readers. They don’t have autocorrect, they won’t understand that “shluod” is a mispelled “should”. They can struggle with words put together likethisandthis. Ellipses and spaced out words like “t h i s” take incredibly long for the screen reader to read. If needs be, substitute with (ellipses) or (the following words have spaces between letters). Be sure to mark it with Image ID and End ID, especially if there’s added text to the post that’s not in the photos.