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Awesome. This happened last night. :)

The “text on a decorative image for emphasis” meme is overused, but this is a perfect example of how to do it right. These images convey so much essential context, it would be difficult to create the same impact any other way.

While Chris may be right about the “text on a decorative image for emphasis” meme, this is more like a comic, and it matches Scott McCloud’s definition of a comic as “Juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or produce an aesthetic response in the reader.”

And – per a quick chat with Chris about this brilliant post – what Stewart is talking about, and what Tumblr is showing us in this very post, is how Tumblr is helping evolve ancient forms of communication. Crazy shit will never be the same again!